GitLab Create:Knowledge Kickoff, 16 Sep 2020

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From YouTube: GitLab 13.5 Kickoff - Create:Knowledge

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Issues mentioned:
Group Level Wiki: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/13195/
Wiki Deep Nesting: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/17673/

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Hi, my name is kristen debenko and I'm a senior pm in the knowledge group of the create stage at gitlab. This is our 13.5 kickoff video.

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Our group works on three category level features wiki design, management and design system.

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We've had a lot of releases over the last six months, mostly around design management, and so in thirteen five, it's all devoted to wiki the two most upvoted issues we have for wiki here are adding the group level wiki, as well as reflecting the deep nesting of wiki pages in the sidebar.

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So I'll quickly show you what each of those are so for group level wiki. We are duping project level, wiki functionality and moving it up to the group space, which makes a lot of sense. If you have content that your whole org needs to know about so here in this mockup, you can see I'm on gitlab.org, which is a group and on the left nav. I can see that wiki is appearing there, able to add pages edit pages and create content all at the group level.

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Now we have broken this issue down into two mvcs and we see one is what we are shipping on the 22nd of october and that's the functionality. I just showed you. This work has been going on since 12 9, so there's a ton of issues in there.

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What we've moved off to mvc2 is the ability to have git access and search to wikis, as well as the settings to turn it on or off. So to get our mvc out. We decided to move those further out on the road map but be sure to participate on those epics, so we can get more upvotes and get those moved up in terms of reaching parity with project with ease.

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So that's the first one. The next one has 171 upvotes, it's also really big, and that is reflecting the wiki's deep nesting structure in the sidebar. So I have an example of a test wiki to show the problem. That's currently happening with the wiki sidebar and what you can see here is I created three test pages within this wiki and I nested them one under a single level directory second level and fourth level directories.

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Now, with such a small number of pages, potentially you could figure this out, but it's very um not intuitive to how you would think about a tree structure. So it's a it's hard to grok, where your content is living.

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Also, if you've got hundreds of pages, this really does not scale and you lose where you are, it's completely useless.

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So what we're doing what our solution is for this release is: we are following common um tree structure for your content and it will nest um indefinitely. I think we're figuring out the number of lusting nesting levels we can achieve with this right now, but it's going to nest and it's going to match the mental model that most wikis should have and what you would expect.

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So those are the two uh big issues that we're shipping in 13-5 and there has been a ton of work going into these from the team. So I'm really thankful to the knowledge team for all of their work. Getting these working on them, scoping them and it'll be really cool to see these go live in 13.5.