Re: RFC: Website redesign
Hi,
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 11:48:21PM -0700, Dill wrote:
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> Perhaps we should just make the home page a wiki! It would work really
> good! If we use a theme like they do at wiki.ubuntu.com or somewhere
> else we could make it look really nice for a home page. Then once it's
> set up, no one has to manage the page, worry about commits, who's
> doing what, etc, and just have the pages edited and worked on by the
> community at large who register at the site to edit. (Unlike the wiki
> in use now something would have to be done to stop the spam, like
> having those boxes at registration where you have pick the letters
> out) Once set up it would simplify things. Do I dare say that Hg uses
> the wiki idea. Works but their theme really looks horrible. Of course
> git would do it better. ;) Ours would be way more pretty! Anyone else
> think a wiki would work for home page? If we could get some work done
> on the theme on moinmoin and get it upgraded and completely set up we
> could do a mockup of what it could look like and if people like it
> just get rid of the old and have the wiki page be the start page. It
> would also solve the news problem as I'm willing and I'm sure others
> would too edit to make sure it's up to date.
let's keep two things separate here: design and content. Design-wise,
it does not matter if it is wiki or not, it is a completely different
issue. And making the wiki look good would be non-trivial amount of work
and the benefits seem unclear to me - so far, we aren't exactly drowning
in patches for the website either (though I admit that some of them
might have been lost anyway if the contributor was unlucky and not
persistent enough ;-).
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Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>