website redesign: preference to keep wiki separate from regular site

Inky 788 inky788 at gmail.com
Wed Aug 12 03:59:36 BST 2009


Due to the recent chatter regarding site redesign, I thought this
might be a good time to express a preference for keeping the Bazaar
web site proper at least visually separate from the bazaar wiki.

As a user of the site, I much prefer to know "when I'm browsing the
wiki" and "when I'm browsing the official website".

Git very nicely separates the two:

  * website: <http://git-scm.com/>
  * wiki: <http://git.or.cz/gitwiki>

There's *no* mistaking where you stand.

Mercurial just puts everything into their wiki:
<http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/>, and is very clear that the whole
shebang is indeed a wiki.

The Bazaar site almost makes it seem like it's trying to hide the fact
that it's a wiki (ex. the login/edit links are way at the bottom in a
light gray font).

If the wiki portion of the site stood out clearly as a wiki, I think
there would be more community contributions to it. As it stands,
browsing around I get the feeling that I'm not supposed to edit
anything. Something about the stock MoinMoin theme makes me much more
apt to edit or add pages.

Especially now that the new docs are being done by Sphinx, I think it
makes sense to clearly delineate the 3 portions of the site:

  * the main site (?)
  * the doc site (Sphinx)
  * the wiki (MoinMoin)

By the way, I like the Bazaar website/wiki look just fine, but the
stock MoinMoin look is nice too.



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