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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