Hi all, Now that there is an effort underway to improve the look/theme of the Wiki. I would like to discuss the content of the wiki. IMO there are too many links on the frontpage. With a new theme, the News/Events items on top can go into a sidebar, so that will be taken care of the news items. I will not discuss them here. But currently, there is little structure in all the links/titles on the Frontpage and that is, to say the least, confusing. I would prefer to end up with a Frontpage that lists up to 7 subsections on the front page and moves most of the other links to one of these subsections. I would propose something like this: http://wiki.centos.org/FrontPageProposal and move everything to the subsections (maybe even move page references to fit in these subsections). With a change like this, the wiki will become much more straightforward to new users and hopefully will encourage people to contribute. What do people think ? -- -- dag wieers, dag@wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors]
On Fri, 2007-09-28 at 01:15 +0200, Dag Wieers wrote:> Hi all, > > Now that there is an effort underway to improve the look/theme of the > Wiki. I would like to discuss the content of the wiki. > > IMO there are too many links on the frontpage. With a new theme, the > News/Events items on top can go into a sidebar, so that will be taken care > of the news items. I will not discuss them here. > > But currently, there is little structure in all the links/titles on the > Frontpage and that is, to say the least, confusing. > > I would prefer to end up with a Frontpage that lists up to 7 subsections > on the front page and moves most of the other links to one of these > subsections. > > I would propose something like this: > > http://wiki.centos.org/FrontPageProposal > > and move everything to the subsections (maybe even move page references to > fit in these subsections). With a change like this, the wiki will become > much more straightforward to new users and hopefully will encourage people > to contribute. > > What do people think ?Hi Dag It's nice, but I think that a more enterprise look is in order. im just stating an opinion and prefer not to get shot over this. but this is enterprise class os. what i am thinking is more clean and segmented website. as things are now im just not thrilled with it its good to the point but nothing eye catching. What im thinking is a total redesign of the site and wiki, i might not be super qualified for the job. But i can assist. They should be integrated under the new look, simple to navigate. my 2 cents canadian ;)
Dag Wieers wrote:> I would prefer to end up with a Frontpage that lists up to 7 subsections > on the front page and moves most of the other links to one of these > subsections. > > I would propose something like this: > > http://wiki.centos.org/FrontPageProposalI hope you're not serious about the colors. I for one cannot really read the first line, the links in that aren't visible to me at all.> and move everything to the subsections (maybe even move page references to > fit in these subsections). With a change like this, the wiki will become > much more straightforward to new users and hopefully will encourage people > to contribute.Then at least a rather big "about CentOS" section should be on there. This is not enough information for a front page (well, at least for me). Yes, having most of it on one page looks good, though. Or some screenshots -- maybe of a nice console tailing /var/log/messages, it's a server OS after all :) Cheers, Ralph -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-docs/attachments/20070928/607c9e0e/attachment.bin
On 9/27/07, Dag Wieers <dag at centos.org> wrote:> Hi all,...> I would propose something like this: > > http://wiki.centos.org/FrontPageProposal > > and move everything to the subsections (maybe even move page references to > fit in these subsections). With a change like this, the wiki will become > much more straightforward to new users and hopefully will encourage people > to contribute. > > What do people think ?I agree, some improvement to the wiki would be nice. Here is another structure proposition: http://wiki.centos.org/es?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=wiki-structure-1-en.png I would like to implement it in es/ page. Would it be convenient ? Also, I would like to discuss a little about namespace. Some time ago (when daniels redirection wiki plugin) we talked about the idea of move all English pages to en/ namespace, is that still possible ?. The cases of Repositories/, PackageManagement/, YumCheckOrInstallUpdates pages. They are listed under HowTos but the name space don't say that. Could them be put under HowTos/ namespace ? The case of HowTos/Network/SomePage, could it be just HowTos/SomePage ? Or, HowTos/Category/SomePage for all pages under HowTos. What do you think about the actual wiki namespace, could we improve it some way ? Thanks, al.