Request to add a link to the SiteNavigation - Community Ubuntu Documentation page

[Peter Matulis]

On 07/03/2013 06:28 AM, David Manuel Pires wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> The reason I'm sending you this email relates to the fact that I, and some of
> the regular contributors of the Ubuntu forums (http://ubuntuforums.org/ ),
> created an alphabetical index of the most popular Ubuntu Documentation Pages,
> with links to the actual documentation pages.
> It's called NewDocs ( https://help.ubuntu.com/community/NewDocs ) and it aims
> not only to be a learning medium but also a versatile and fast work tool, as it
> enables faster searches and I believe is user friendly.
> 
> NewDocs is already linked as a sticky, in the Absolute Beginners Section
> subforum (http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=326 ) of the Ubuntu forums,
> and I, on behalf of all the contributors of the NewDocs, would like to request
> you its insertion in the SiteNavigation page
> (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SiteNavigation ), not only because NewDocs is
> a great resource tool, regardless the user degree of knowledge of the
> Ubuntu/Linux universe, but also because it has prove itself to be a good asset
> to help everyone.

Hi David,

If anyone can add links to the "popular pages" (by which I hope you mean
"quality pages") won't we end up in the same mess we have now (a lot of trashy
pages; or links to them)?  There is also no obvious association between quality
pages and NewDocs.  Say I create a superb page but I haven't heard about
NewDocs.  That page will never be linked to and all those people using NewDocs
will miss it.  Eventually someone might stumble upon it *if they themselves
appreciate its contents* and create a link.  There is also the subjective aspect
to it.  Someone links to a "totally awesome" page because it solved their
problem but in reality it might be a terrible page.  Although I appreciate your
effort to help people, this all seems too brittle to take seriously enough to
hardlink from SiteNavigation.  Would a better idea be to simply QA the existing
docs (which would include a lot of page deletions) and let people use the
existing search utility?

pmatulis