FronPage troubles

[Sivan Green]

On Mon, 2004-11-01 at 20:33 +0200, Alexander Poslavsky wrote:
> On Mon, 01 Nov 2004 18:17:13 +0000, Louise McCance-Price
> <lu at canonical.com> wrote:
> > Hi Alex
> > 
> > A little more feedback:
> > 
> > I think we are at risk of focusing on "Documentation" only, but the wiki
> > is a brainstorming area for everyone and everything to do with Ubuntu.
> > The community must not be afraid to contribute here and there must be no
> > "barrier to entry" so to speak.
> 
> How to get that thought across? I spent today looking around on
> several other wiki's etc. It is difficult, either a wiki is a mess or
> too unfriendly. How to balance this?
>  
> > Thus, why do people need to consult the doc team first before changing
> > the FrontPage? Surely this sentence should only apply to the
> > Documentation Home page of the wiki? Please discuss any changes to the
> > FrontPage on the Documentation List BEFORE making them.
> 
> This was more a reaction to what happened when sb made funny changes,
> but yes, we don't want to scare people from editing, it would miss the
> point of having a wiki.
> 
> > 
> > Wiki gardeners will ensure that info is moved to the best location, but
> > people must not be afraid of making a mistake. I think we'd rather have
> > a wiki that
> > people enjoy and want to contribute to, and we can ensure that  if it's
> > not in the most logical place, it gets moved.
> > 
> >     * I think it would be worth going through all the current pages,
> >       deciding on whether the high level sections that you have up there
> >       ensure that each page of current information has a home that is
> >       easy to find in a logical location.
> 
> This is something the whole team should do, i have been moving stuff,
> but what is logical to one person might be difficult to another.
> 
> FEEDBACK GUYS!
> 
> >     * Decide whether is should be on the main website or on the wiki,
> >       and then create the section/page on the website or wiki to
> >       accommodate it.
> 
> This we need to figure out, i personally do not understand the need
> for most of the website... so we need discussion on this.
> 
> >     * We need to have information for our users as accessible as
> >       possible - 3 clicks rule :o)
> 
> We need sb really bright for this, or really smart mouseclicks. How
> can you keep the numbers of links down and the number of answers
> high???
> 
> >     * Alphabetically ordered info is always easier to find unless there
> >       is a logical order to the info that overrides it.
> 
> We need macro's for this, we had them in moin! 
> > 


I think we should use the wiki solely as a sketch pad area, outlining
new designs and ideas, and have a well separated documentation zone.

It would be great having write access to the "official" documentation
zone on ubuntulinux.org, to put there all the "stable" documentation.

I think we can then devide the official documentation home on the
website to include "unstable" documentation. Wiki would be only for the
sole purpose of throwing ideas at it, sketching and getting feedback for
that. That would streamline the way new users navigate through our
documentation and it would be apparent that unless you want to do
something to contribute, or that has to do something with development
you would use the official doc area, not the wiki.


Sivan