So I have been tasked with driving the effort to organize the Get
Involved wiki areas. Of course when I started to look at this, there
are a bunch of related links like For Developers, the FAQs etc that
we should look at too. As a first step I wanted to do an inventory of
the current links and what pages they go to. Here is the current
hierarchy....
+ We have a desktop landing page with links to....
+ Get Involved page
+ For Developers page
+ Product FAQ
+ We have a Cosmo landing page with links to....
+ Get Involved page
+ For Developers page
+ Product FAQ
For each of the landing pages, these links point to different pages
which are customized specifically for the particular product or project.
+ The Product, Teams, Projects all have links on the left nav to Get
Involved, For Developers and the Product FAQ. but they are not
currently active. These pages are more general so we don't have the
context of pointing to a particular FAQ or Get Involved page.
Mimi and I chatted and we came up with the following proposal for
Preview.
Proposal:
+ Create single main pages for Get Involved, For Developers and the
FAQ. This means we can link to this single page from the main landing
page as well as all the wiki pages. We are looking at a single
centralized landing page for Preview anyhow and won't have the 2 main
pages that we do now.
+ Obviously there is different information specific to the end-user
related info and the server specific information so we would
structure these pages with sections or a table of contents so users
can easily get at the information they need. Alternatively, we could
keep the main page brief and create links to secondary pages for
product specific info.
+ In keeping with this structure we would generalize the "log a bug"
and "report a problem" information as well.
Mimi and I did a brainstorm of what type of information would go in
each page....
- Get Involved
- IRC
- Lists
- Feedback
- Log a bug
- Roles - ways to contribute
- Projects
- Help us page
- Governance
- FAQ
- One FAQ with sections
- End user chandler desktop/hub/casual collaborator
- Server
- For Developers
- One page with sections
- Server
- Web front end
- Desktop
Comments, suggestions?
Cheers,
Sheila
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