Replace wiki.ubuntu.com with help.ubuntu.com/commmunity

[Bryce Harrington]

Matthew East mdke at ubuntu.com wrote at Tue Nov 4 08:18:49 GMT 2008:
> I appreciate that there is a confusion about where the help
> documentation is stored, and the distinction between wiki.ubuntu.com
> and help.ubuntu.com.
> 
> I agree that we should do what we can to resolve this confusion.
> However, I'm strongly against your idea of moving help documentation
> back to the url wiki.ubuntu.com, and moving the team pages to a new
> wiki, for several reasons.
>
> 3. Essentially the effect of your change would be that people visiting
> wiki.ubuntu.com expecting to find their team pages would not find
> them, and would find another wiki in its place. That would cause the
> huge community of Ubuntu developers a substantial inconvenience.

I've not been a member of this mailing list, but joined simply to
underscore this point #3 above.

As a developer I go to wiki.ubuntu.com to access the team pages of my
fellow developers.  For instance, I use the resources on the QA team
page quite frequently.

With the new redesign, this adds numerous extra clicks to my day-to-day
development workflow.  I do not care for this change.

I understand that users get confused, but to make this change for their
benefit, at the cost of slowing down developers seems short sighted.


Furthermore, I have the following additional points of feedback:

 * Roughly 50% of the links on that page lead to places *other* than
   wiki.ubuntu.com.  This makes the page a very poor start page for the
   wiki.ubuntu.com page.

 * This change should have been discussed more widely.  I can find no
   evidence of discussion of this change outside the 5 messages in this
   thread, and the replies on this thread all seem negative to the
   change.

 * It is better to make major changes incrementally rather than with
   sudden all-at-once changeovers like this.


Bryce