On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 2:50 AM, Joe Barnhart <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Yarko -- > > I can't say about others, but for me the key missing features in the > wiki are: > > * Wiki-style links and organization > * Easy navigable URLs > * More compact and usable layout Thanks, Joe, for the concrete and useful points. I would add that if you don't display a page (e.g. still working on it) I could find no way to get back to it. Also, the RST levels seem to be top-level, and some of the text too large; when I compare how PyCon site handles the docutils module setup, I think we need to look at emulating some of that setup. > > > All wikis I have used in the past use embedded WikiStyleTags to create > links to other pages on the wiki, or even create stub pages > automatically. Ours does not. It's linking is very cumbersome and > more like a traditional web page. > > URLs in most wikis are related to the linked pages, so the page above > might have a link of http://www.ourwiki.com/wikistyletags. It makes > the page easily reachable and much more accessible than an > automatically generated crypto-garf name. > > The layout of the current wiki is very large and diffuse. It feature > enormous titles, big fonts, and just does not use space efficiently. > I know it's a style thing, but style is important too. This is less > important than the wiki features already mentioned, but it ranks > somewhere. > > I don't want anyone to feel like I'm telling them what to do. I am > just a messenger, bearing the bad news that we still do not have > significant community involvement in solving our documentation > dilemma. While I am becoming more proficient at reading Python ;-), I > believe we need more accessible documentation if we are ever to take > on Django or PHP. > > On May 2, 2:44 pm, Yarko Tymciurak <[email protected]> wrote: > > talk is cheap... > > > > ...there is no shortage of opinions or advice on what "others should do", > or > > (worse) what "others should stop doing" (as I read this all)... > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py Web Framework" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
