I vouch for the fact that Meller can be abrasive, much as I love him :) On Tuesday, January 29, 2013, Chris Meller wrote:
> I apologize if I offended you, Les. I'm known to come off a bit abrasive, > but I was actually asking legitimately, not to kill the idea. I didn't know > how you saw the system working to solve your problem, so I asked. > > As Chris said, we realize the wiki sucks, we just haven't been able to > find anything that sucks less than MediaWiki. If you've ever used a wiki > that you thought sucked less, please track it down so we can steal it... ;) > > > On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 4:58 PM, Les Henderson < > [email protected]> wrote: > > Confused, and annoyed, it seems, says the purported troll. > > I only suggested it could be altered in any way you like in order to be a > new single Wiki page with links to it from the navigation bar. Help people > find stuff without having to ask the location of a special all pages > generator. I guess I am both blind and the other thing. > > So, while I found both the user and dev groups both interesting and > informative, and the IRC, until recently, an insightful and amusing look > into your diligent and tireless efforts, I shall no longer be troubling > either you or Owen with my presence at either. Break out the beer! > > No matter. I at least got you talking about things that might improve > Habari other than its code and still wish you nothing but success. > > > > On Monday, January 28, 2013 5:03:11 PM UTC-5, Chris Meller wrote: > > I'm a bit confused... What exactly does this sitemap accomplish? > > Where would it live? > How would it be updated? > How would anyone know to find it? > How is it substantially different from the one MediaWiki already > generates<http://wiki.habariproject.org/en/Special:AllPages> > ? > > > On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 3:36 PM, Les Henderson <[email protected]>wrote: > > Okay, here's something that could be modified as desired and added as a > page with links to it from all wiki pages. > > I imagine you don't want it all to be used as is, but I think it's a > reasonable starting point. > > On Monday, January 28, 2013 3:37:20 PM UTC-5, Les Henderson wrote: > > I'm not saying it's terrible, so much as noting a disconnect between it > and the more friendly blog portion. There are plenty of inline links on the > main wiki page to the relevant content I might want to read but most > people, at least me, rely on some form of navigation rather than trying to > guess what to search for. > > The main Wiki page has all the stuff there somewhere but once you leave > it, good luck. I'm finding great stuff, three weeks in, but only randomly > on a general Google search. I should be enticed into reading the entire > wiki without having to open a hundred tabs, is all. > > All I'm asking for is for someone to add another half dozen items to the > Navigation box. If I knew how, I would. > > I realize you rightfully don't want to take any steps backwards and would > rather have perfection than any quick fixes but isn't a temporary bandage > marginally better than an open wound that festers for years unattended? > > If I'm willing and foolish enough to keep unintentionally annoying anyone > with such suggestions, this must be a real bothersome issue for me, one > that I noticed day one and which should be easily fixable. > > > On Monday, January 28, 2013 3:01:13 PM UTC-5, Chris J. Davis wrote: > > Oh right, yeah wiki's suck in general, and ours is pretty terrible. We are > wanting to replace the wiki with something better, we just haven't found > what that better thing is yet. > > Suggests welcome! > > On Jan 28, 2013, at 1:56 PM, Les Henderson <[email protected]> wrote: > > Okay, I see where I'm going wrong here. The main site blog has very fine > navigation and access to the announcements, themes and plugins, though it > would be nice to have the "Powered by Habari" at the bottom somewhere. > > It's when you get sidetracked on the Wiki that I find all those features > missing. So again, Habari blog good, Wiki bad. > > On Monday, January 28, 2013 2:27:58 PM UTC-5, Chris J. Davis wrote: > > This is a search URL on the project site: > > https://habariproject.org/en/**s**earch?criteria=release<https://habariproject.org/en/search?criteria=release> > > As you can see it technically works, there just isn't a text input for it. > > On Jan 28, 2013, at 1:23 PM, Les Henders > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] <javascript:_e({}, > 'cvml', 'habari-dev%[email protected]');>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- Michael C. 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