Hi Silvia,

On Mar 1, 2010, at 10:58 AM, Silvia Rusu wrote:

> 
> Hello, 
> 
> I would like to propose we update the User Guide documentation so that it's
> more helpful to users that start using XWiki, whether they are programmers
> or not. The purpose of the guide is to get users up to speed with the XWiki
> basics, to gather these resources in one place. 
> 
> You can find my proposal for the user guide here:
> http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Drafts/UserGuide
> 
> Please feel free to make suggestions for other pages to be included or
> changes you think should be made. Remember this is not a TOC for all the
> documentation, but rather a selection of links to help you get started with
> XWiki. 

Good start! It's cool that you're working on this, we absolutely need it :)

Some feedback:

* It doesn't feel like a guide right now. It seems to be a collection of links 
to other places. Personally I like that because it avoids duplication. However 
I wonder what will first time users think. It probably makes it hard for them 
to read. Also the current getting started guide from Guillaume (which would 
disappear as a consequence) has a lot more texts and explanations that need to 
be reintegrated in the user guide.
* It's missing an overall TOC
* I only see "XWiki Basics" but this guide is supposed to be a full guide to 
all features. Is it simply because it's not finished? How would you organize 
the rest?
* I think you need the guide to start with a single page that is a TOC and have 
more separate pages. This will come naturally as a consequence of adding more 
explanations/texts to the each section (see first point above).
* The guide needs a lot more screenshots IMO. There should be screenshots 
everywhere. Remember that an image is worth a thousand words ;)

Thanks
-Vincent

> Thanks, 
> Silvia

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