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

[David Manuel Pires]

Hi Peter,

Thank you for your reply. We appreciate your taking time to consider our
request to include a link to
NewDocs<https://help.ubuntu.com/community/NewDocs> on
the Community Help Wiki's SiteNavigation page.

Because the stated purpose of SiteNavigation is to provide a list of
indexing systems, we believe that
NewDocs<https://help.ubuntu.com/community/NewDocs>,
as a relevant indexing system of community documentation, would be a useful
link on SiteNavigation.

NewDocs is an index of the Wiki's most commonly accessed documents,
categorised alphabetically and intended for ease of use by wiki visitors.
While many find a search feature helpful, some have difficulty if they do
not know specific search phrases to utilise it properly. It can also return
a time-consuming number of links irrelevant to the visitor's need. The
ability to browse an index is helpful is such cases.

NewDocs has been well received by the Ubunutu Forums community, and has
been given "sticky" status in the Absolute Beginners Forum as a valuable
resource.

We understand your concerns and will continue to endeavour to make
NewDocs<https://help.ubuntu.com/community/NewDocs>a useful resource to
the Ubuntu community.

Regards,
David Pires
Leigh Tate
Geoff Smith


On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 1:46 PM, Peter Matulis
<peter.matulis at canonical.com>wrote:

> 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
>
>
>
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