ubuntu wiki observations

[Duncan Lithgow]

On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 18:21 +1000, Naaman Campbell wrote:

> With regard to the WikiIndex proposal, I do not see a need for it as
> the FrontPage already does a good enough job of directing people where
> to go.  I would suggest developing a FrontPageDraft page instead with
> your suggested changes as a sandbox instead.  Perhaps having a
> separate title for the Help docs would be a better way of showing
> users where to get help.
That page looks kinda good, but how come I don't remember ever seeing
it? Not so useful then is it? I'm guessing it the page new users see
before they have started using the wiki. I for one am not used to such
poor (read abysmal) navigation, so i never bookmarked it.

So for any supposed 'front page' or index to be useful we need to be
able to find it - I suggest a first step is that it is automatically
added to each users bookmarks list - any other suggestions? I notice
also that https://wiki.ubuntu.com/index doesn't exist yet. Wouldn't that
be a more logical page to use?

> The need for a cleanup of the help pages is mentioned in the
> WikiCleanupProposal - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WikiCleanupProposal -
> and the help pages that you (Duncan) feel need improvement could be
> listed under the WikiCleanupProposal section on the WikiToDo page.

I'd love to help work on cleaning stuff up, but a sensible navigation
system comes first for me.

Duncan