OK, I understand... thanks, Scott
Stroller wrote: > The purpose of user pages is generally for users to tell readers > about themselves. > > "Hi, my name is Bob and I've been an Openmoko user for 2 years. I > have a PHd in technical writing and I enjoy contributing to the wiki > in my spare time." > > Just look at some of the Wikipedia user pages for fuller examples - > there they often display "awards" for number of edits made, the > user's country of origin (even countries they've travelled to!) > spheres of wiki interest and probably even hobbies! > > It is right and logical that user pages shouldn't be indexed. > > It is wrong (and "illogical") that zedlock should be listed only on > Quicksand's user page - it should have a proper page to itself. > > I am reminded of my previous post over a reluctance by users to edit > the wiki - perhaps Quicksand was being modest in not creating a new > page for his own software, perhaps he didn't wish to create a new > page because he felt that the wiki "belongs" to Openmoko or to > Brenda. Whatever, that information should probably be moved to a new > page (although I have to admit to being reluctant myself to edit > someone else's userpage!!). > > Stroller. > > > On 17 Jul 2008, at 16:31, Scott Derrick wrote: > >> to me a site index is a site index. If its not complete it should >> state >> so at the top in bold print. >> >> It makes no sense to only show some of the Wiki, isn't the point of >> this >> thing to provide full access to the community? >> >> Scott >> >> >> Scott >> >> Steven ** wrote: >>> That's a user page. I can understand why that wouldn't show up in >>> the >>> index. Make the zedlock section a real page first. And tag it with >>> the "Software" category. >>> >>> However, I can't imagine a hand-edited index to ever be accurate for >>> more than a day. I'd stick with the auto-generated index pages like >>> http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Category:Software >>> >>> -Steven >>> > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community > -- - What county can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time that its people preserve the spirit of resistance. Thomas Jefferson _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
