New Mercurial Website

[Dirkjan Ochtman]

On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 11:39, Adrian Buehlmann <adrian at cadifra.com> wrote:
> Instead of starting a fork of the wiki which is a huge pain to
> edit, it would make a whole lot more sense to improve the
> wiki, so people can actually contribute in a useful manner
> and adapt content.

You're missing the point.

First-time users, or casually interested visitors, don't need the
depth and breadth of the wiki, and are much better served by a
smaller, more focused site, that can point them to the wiki as
appropriate. See it as a learning curve thing.

IMO the wiki (as most wikis, I think) comes with a lot of chrome and
noise per page, which makes it harder to navigate for these types of
users (but a wonderful resource for people who want more in-depth
information). This just makes the site and the wiki very
complementary. If you're arguing the site should link to the wiki more
conspicuously or in more places, that might make sense, but I do think
the addition of the site is a very good thing.

Cheers,

Dirkjan