dividing up the wiki?

[Matthew Miller]

On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 08:52:26AM -0500, Sijis Aviles wrote:
> > Wiki is now best tool we have - that's all. For Change description, it's
> > great, everything is available in one place etc.
> I  agree with this statement but it doesn't mean we shouldn't explore
> better or alternatives. (I'm sure the infra team doesn't want/need another
> app and infrastructure to support.)

I think it's a fine use-case for a wiki. It's just bad when mixed in with
the user/product documentation.


> I'm thinking to help visitor understand what kind of page they are
> visiting, maybe the theme, maybe just background colors, change for that.
> Similarly, if you look at fp.o, the different sections of the site have a
> different color (bugs = purple, features = orange, etc.). If we
> tagged/organized the wiki and broke it down in the 3 mentioned target
> audiences (docs, communication and ideas), maybe we change the background
> to a different color. 

Or a different header -- tied together with a similar theme, but clearly
deliminated.

> Now to note that a page is an archive or older page,
> maybe we use a separate color for that all together.

Spiderwebs all over it. :)



> The other thought is to better organize the wiki navigation (somehow) to
> help naturally steer folks in the right direction, instead of having to
> resort to a search engine.

Yep. The front wiki page right now is intimidating, with scattered boxes of
text. Kind of fine-print text. If you scroll past all that ("blah blah blah
fine print text"), then it looks like the main design of the wiki is
division by subproject and sigs.


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