Updating how categories are organized on Meta

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Here would be my reshuffling of categories:

  • News & Events
    • Announcements
    • Blog
    • Summaries
  • Community
    • Agora (was: general)
    • Site Feedback
    • Praise
    • Comparison
    • Community Management
    • Marketplace
    • User Wiki
    • Admin Wiki
    • Dev Wiki
    • Sysadmin Wiki
  • Documentation
    • Using Discourse
    • Site Management
    • Integrations
    • Discourse Hosting (was: Hosted Customers)
    • Self-Hosting
    • Migrating to Discourse
    • Developer Guides
    • Contributing
  • Help
    • Installation
    • Hosting
    • Migration
  • Integrate
    • WordPress
    • SSO
  • Contribute
    • Bug
    • Feature
    • Dev
    • Translations
    • UX
  • Customize
    • Plugin
    • Extras
    • Theme
    • Theme Component
    • Data & Reporting

Rationale:

  • Community would be the lively place for discussions related to anything not done anywhere, bringing together the larger Discourse community, including wikis, general discussion (#agora), site feedback, praise and comparison with other software, but also discussion about community management and the marketplace.
  • #news-events would be for normal CDCK communication
  • #help would be to get support
  • #integrate would be to discuss specific integrations
  • Documentation would host the official knowledge base
  • #contribute would host all the development process
  • #customize would host all that makes each Discourse instance a special community, including data reporting and exploration.

When someone new comes, they would either go to the (official) documentation, or to the community discussions…

I would suggest a #welcome tag pointing to a handful of introduction topics to navigate easily and onboard newcomers, e.g., for going from tl0 to tl1, grasping the mood and areas.

Probably the documentation should have a prominent start with The Documentation System tags: tutorial, explanation, how-to, reference.

Community Management could be called Community Building instead… I don’t like “Community Success” for some unclear reason.

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