On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 11:37:22AM +0000, samwise wrote:
I really think that what the wiki needs is less on the front page and more content in general; most of the discussion has appeared to be about style and there's hasn't been a huge amount of user added content.
J.
The style thing has been pretty much done - the front page is important to make sure that visitors can easily see what information is available on the site and navigate it. This was one of the fundamental problems of the old site, IMHO. I think we've got that now.
I think we've got a hard to maintain, overly complicated front page that's trying to impress (and, IMO, failing).
The content is building up - there's already a lot more content on there than most LUGs and possibly even the old site. Give it some time ... I hope to work on the Help guides when I get back towards the end of this week. I actually think it's remarkable how far we've come since the wiki was launched.
Looking at recent changes, the there's only one page potentially added (CDBurn) and 2 pages updated - and it seems to be you and Noodles. The previous set of edits where by Me, David and Noodles on the 27th... We still haven't (quite) got as much info as from the previous wiki, but it's getting there.
On a related topic, I noticed you've spent some time on the front page, moving some stuff into separate pages. That's all good - but I wondered about the Links page you've added. The links to FSF/GNU/Linux you removed from the front-page were meant to be informative, but not that important. If you think they clutter the front page, happy to get rid of them ... I'm not sure they actually warrant their own page - I don't think a general Links page is likely to get many visitors and might just end up stagnating or being filled with lots of unrelated links.
Anyway, I just thought I'd say that if you'd moved them because you didn't want to delete them (because someone else - me - had contributed the content), then I have no problem dumping them altogether ...
Or maybe I'm wrong and people think a Links page would be useful ... ?
A reasonable set of links to outside documentation is always good, there's a lot of useful information out there, and as far as possible we shouldn't duplicate it but instead link to it. If people find something useful (for example: http://www.davidpashley.com/articles/writing-robust-shell-scripts.html), could also be useful to add links to the "major" projects that we all use - such as openoffice.org, gnome, kde, etc - just because we *can* reinvent the wheel doesn't mean that we should.