new wiki theme?

Robert Collins robert.collins at canonical.com
Fri Mar 20 07:03:14 GMT 2009


On Fri, 2009-03-20 at 02:56 -0400, Karl Fogel wrote:
> Robert Collins <robert.collins at canonical.com> writes:
> > Has the wiki theme been changed recently? Just spent a few minutes
> > trying to find the 'edit' facility... needed to get a pointer from
> > someone else in fact that the Ubuntu Help wiki has moved all this from
> > the side to the very bottom, to find it myself.
> 
> Yeah -- Martin and I asked Matthew Nuzum of Canonical to change the
> template to make the site more reader-friendly.  The other change was
> that he got rid of the globes on external links.
> 
> (Rationale: A wiki is always a compromise between active readers and
> passive ones, but as Bazaar gets more popular, we should be expecting
> more passive visitors to the site, for whom having wiki controls up near
> the top can be confusing or at least distracting.)
> 
> Sorry it took you a few minutes to find the edit link, though!

It would be nice to be told - I'm not disputing that the change is good,
just that finding out the hard way is less than ideal, and a trivial
mail wouldn't take long to send. Or perhaps you did and I missed it - in
which case mea culpa.

-Rob
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