Fwd: Wiki Cleanup Proposal

[Naaman Campbell]

On 2/20/06, Brian Burger <blurdesign at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes, overall I think UserDocBeta is great, I just think that some of
> the subpages that've been created have been overkill, like the great
> profusion of browser pages - do Lynx & Links really have that much
> stuff in the wiki devoted to them? (I know Opera doesn't, and suspect
> the same of the other two browsers.)

Brian, I do agree - where is the Lynx/Links doco on the Wiki.. :)
There are two reasons why it appears on the WebBrowsers sub-index:

1. To improve awareness of the program - there are good reasons why
you might need to use Lynx/Links - and it a web browser for Ubuntu so
it should be documented in some form

2. I was being a stickler for consistency on the page - there truly is
no need for a LynxRelatedPages page to exist

> Long lists of links aren't great for usability, but deep layers of
> index pages before you get to the actual content aren't great either.
>
> As an completely ad-hoc suggestion, I'd say that you'd need at least
> four links per category before splitting that category off to it's own
> index page. So in the case of the browsers, that'll give Firefox a
> page of it's own, and leave the Opera/Lynx/etc pages linked directly
> off the main Browsers page.

Your completely ad-hoc suggestion is completely awesome.  It is
exactly what I had in mind after finishing setting up the Opera and
Lynx RelatedPages.  Four is the perfect number as well.  This idea was
discussed previously, but it was decided to give everything a
RelatedPages for consistency.

Grant, I think this will be the way future pages are done.  I will
update the WikiCleanupProposal and edit the WebBrowsers page shortly.

Naaman.