The other obvious use is converting visitors to users :) I think the best way to do that would be to dramatically improve the documentation surrounding what users can do with Freenet. I believe the biggest turnoff to new users is that the question "why should I bother?" is not well answered unless the user has fairly strong ideals about privacy.
That combined with the observation that writing good, up to date documentation takes time, and FPI is short on developer time, says to me that making the wiki a prominent portion of the web site would be a good idea. I would count myself as an interested observer and user of Freenet, knowledgeable enough to improve the wiki, but not a developer. I don't have time to do a major overhaul of the wiki myself, but I have time to make occasional improvements. However, if it isn't a form of documentation that is seen as important by the developers as a group, then I don't particularly think it's worth my time to improve something that most users will never see. Leaving the wiki in an obscure corner of the website that very few users see is an excellent way to ensure that it forever remains out of date and of minimal usefulness. Evan Daniel On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Edgar Friendly <thelema314 at gmail.com> wrote: > Good job getting a high pagerank.? The two uses for it I can think of are 1) > getting search traffic and 2) linking to others. > > Since there's not much to do about #1, I guess you're really asking for > suggestions of worthy groups to link to.? And for that, I wonder if > politically-like-minded organizations would be good friends to have.? The > Swedish pirate party comes to mind. > > E. > > On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Ian Clarke <ian.clarke at gmail.com> wrote: >> >> So apparently our website has a Google pagerank of 7, which is apparently >> quite a coveted thing (given the number of emails I get from SEO companies >> begging for us to link to their customers - even offering to bribe us!). >> >> This could easily explain where a lot of our traffic comes from, and >> therefore a lot of our downloads. >> >> I think right now we are probably not exploiting this to the fullest, does >> anyone have ideas about how we would improve our website to take advantage >> of our high pagerank?? Our website right now is probably very poorly >> optimized to exploit the attention it receives from search engines. >> >> Ian. > > _______________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > Tech at freenetproject.org > http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech >
