[Server-devel] [XSCE] Re: XSCE Wiki facelift :)

[James Cameron]

I disagree.  Put it on a Wiki, wear the edits.  Talk on the Wiki about
it, not here.

The real trouble is too few editors.  Not enough people care.

If you want to control your content and message, don't do it on the
cheap.  Get an expert communicator involved.  Avoid a Wiki.

And I hate one long page.  Fine for kickstarter, but the OLPC Wiki
isn't kickstarter.  Scattering disconnected news about a project in
one page just makes things look messy, hindering uptake.

That said, if you want to _manage_ documentation in subpages, yet have
a one page view to keep one user happy, then you can use a series of
inclusions

{{:/Sub Page Name 1}}
{{:/Sub Page Name 2}}
{{:/Sub Page Name 3}}

On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 03:02:40PM -0400, Adam Holt wrote:
> More and more I've come to appreciate kickstarter pages conducive to exploring
> community products in 1 long page at your own pace, without a zillion subpages
> that realistically balkanizes navigability, community efforts, and last but not
> least edit histories.  Just my opinion, influenced by Mike Lee's professional
> web strategy opinions and others.
> 
> Just my opinion of course.  If you/others see the world differently, and are
> willing to creating a clean site map for a facelift and show everyone a better
> way, if people believe this genuinely enhances participation in our community
> product, fantastic.
> 
> If so, can We/David/All please (as a general rule, now and in future) create
> separate staging/scaffolding sites asking for involvement/feedback, before
> summarily facelifting sizable amounts of others' work?
> 
> 
> On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 2:22 PM, David Farning <dfarning at activitycentral.com>
> wrote:
> 
>     As we get ready for the 0.4 release in a couple of week, I cleaned up
>     the wiki landing page at
>     http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Community_Edition .
> 
>     1. Every time I went to that page, I was overwhelmed by the quantity
>     of information. To reduce the sensation of facing down a firehose,I
>     shifted most of the information about people and processes to subpages
>     linked under the heading 'Us'.
> 
>     2. The second pass was to shift the focus from the technology the
>     project uses to the the value the product offers users.
> 
>     I have tried to create a funnel with:
>     - Devices and Networking
>     - Educational Content
>     - Learning and Collaboration
> 
>     We need a few points under each heading.
> 
>     3. Finally, I left the section on ecosystem in the front to emphasis
>     the relationships XSCE might have with other projects.
> 
>     Edit welcome.
>    
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>     David Farning
>     Activity Central: http://www.activitycentral.com
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