new wiki structure

Folks --

I have been asked to post where pages in the current wiki will live in 
the future new&improved set of wiki webs.  Here is my first version:

http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Main/ChandlerWikiWebGoesFromTo
http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Main/UserWikiWebGoesFromTo
http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Main/JungleWikiPages

The first two are in the format of
    where-now      to      where-going-to
with "Chandler.", "Journal.", "Main.", and "Trash." referring to the 
Chandler, Journal, and Main wiki web, and "delete this".

The ">" serves to illustrate hierarchy.  This hierarchy is meant to 
correspond to the OSAF project taxonomy:
    http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Main/OSAFProjectTaxonomy
This project taxonomy is currently used in our status reporting tool, 
and we have hopes to align Bugzilla with this project taxonomy as well.

The navigational structure will be slightly different than the 
inheritance structure (i.e. what you see by looking under the big blue 
OSAF logo on the wiki page, the list with ">"s in it).  However, by 
looking at the inheritance structure, you should be able to get a clue 
about where in Bugzilla or where in the status report to look for 
related items.

Everything that is not explicitly mentioned in ChandlerWikiWebGoesFromTo 
or UserWikiWebGoesFromTo goes in the Jungle, so the JungleWikiPages page 
is redundant.  It's only real use is to answer the question, "Did she 
just not know about this page?" 

The basic rules of thumb are:
+ If it's a user page, it goes in Users (Main).
+ If it reflects OSAF's current thinking and someone maintains and keeps 
current, it goes in Chandler.
+ If it reflects OSAF's thinking as of one particular *time* (e.g. 
meeting notes, status reports), but isn't likely to ever change, it goes 
in Journal.
+ If it doesn't reflect OSAF's current thinking *or* isn't likely to get 
updated regularly, it goes in Jungle.

This new structure is not cast in concrete.  We expect that it will 
change, and it will probably change even before we switch over.  Juergen 
is going to do a practice run first.  Even if we like what we see, 
people will have made changes to the wiki by then.  I also expect that 
actually navigating around the new structure (as opposed to navigating 
in my head) will make me want to change a few things.  It is easy to 
change things later.

Also please note that the wiki webs are not supposed to be isolated and 
self-contained.  There will be links from Chandler to Jungle to Journal 
to Jungle to Chandler etc.  The point of the wiki webs is to make 
searching for "official" content easier.

The new structure is somewhat arbitrary on some points.  Some pages 
could have easily gone in Users (Main) instead of Jungle, for example, 
so why did I put them in Jungle?  Doesn't much matter.  In neither place 
is something "official".  There's a slight advantage to having pages in 
the Jungle -- someone could conceivably search the Jungle, but are less 
likely to search the Users (Main) WikiWeb.  Thus I put all the pages 
under OSAF people's personal page into the Jungle.  If something looked 
particularly interesting or useful under someone's personal page, I 
might have also put it into the Jungle.  I didn't feel it warranted 
spending a lot of time worrying about.

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