Homepage misses search field and visible wiki link

[Honza Horak]

On 03/04/2014 04:33 PM, Elad Alfassa wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 5:28 PM, Honza Horak <hhorak at redhat.com
> <mailto:hhorak at redhat.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi guys,
>
>     mostly as UX-beginner I dare to propose the following changes on the
>     Fedora Project homepage (http://fedoraproject.org):
>
>     * include a search field for wiki with proper text like:
>          Search wiki pages: [________] [go]
>        (well, ideally it would search for everything, like packages,
>     builds, services, doc, wiki pages, ...; but I know it would need too
>     much work)
>
>     * add one more link to the wiki somewhere more visible than only in
>     the footer (I believe I'm not the only one who doesn't remember the
>     wiki url and returns to the wiki very often through the homepage)
>
>     Regards,
>     Honza
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> Hi.
>
> I don't think it's a good idea. The wiki is not for users, it's for
> contributors. Most of it will be really confusing for users.
> We do have a link to the wiki near the header, it's called
> "Contributors" cause the wiki is for contributors.
>
> A more prominent wiki link would probably fit as part of the new hub.fpo
> contributor hub idea.

I don't agree that wiki is for contributors only, not even mostly for 
contributors. There is a lot valid information for users as well.

> Regarding search, there has been plans for years to have a search system
> for the entire fedora ecosystem, unfortunately nobody ever implemented
> that and I don't think anyone is working on that.

So why not to add a simple "Search wiki" for now and change it if anyone 
comes with a better solution?

Honza