New Mercurial Website

[Adrian Buehlmann]

On 02.11.2009 12:18, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote:
> 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.

No. You are missing the point that such pages you describe below
could be easily added to the current wiki.

There is no need to start an entirely different platform
that is doomed to be byte rotten from the start because no
one will update it.

> 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.

If anything, such a duplicate site structure under the same
domain (selenic.com) with different look and feel just confuses,
especially newbies.

> 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.

No. I'm arguing that this duplicated site is a step in
the wrong direction.

I wonder what's so hard to navigate in the current wiki.

You even have a perfect search function that can search
titles and full text and there's also the category feature.

Probably the most sexy feature of the new site is it's look
and feel. But for me, content is king.

The time would be better spent in giving the current wiki a
better look and feel and add any missing pages there.