New wiki start page

[Paul Moore]

2009/11/2 Adrian Buehlmann <adrian at cadifra.com>:
> The old content is at http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/Navigation
> Why is that bad?

Because it takes 2 clicks from the current start page to get to
"Navigation". I understand that you're proposing that the wiki be put
back as the front page, so it goes back to being only one click. In
that case, I don't mind so much - but that's not what's happening at
the moment.

> If you revert I certainly re-revert. Quite disappointing, that you start
> using the word "fight". Is that really needed?

What I was getting at is that this *isn't* something that should turn
into a fight, but rather should be discussed. I'd rather the
discussion had happened before the change was made, but I'm not
looking to revert now, rather I'd like to open discussion.

Sorry if my wording was confusing.

> Would it at least be possible to lave the new page for 24 hours
> and then revert? So that others can see it as well?

No problem. But can we at least agree that if no other comments are
made, it gets reverted and if you still want to go ahead with the
change, you actively ask for views, and you get comments from the
people who developed the new front page, on whether they would be
willing to drop it in favour of your updated Wiki front page (I
suspect they wouldn't be...)

Ah, I see that you've actually already reverted. Thanks. Let's see
what people's views are.

My view: The wiki is fine, but I appreciate it's not ideal as a start
page for beginners. I generally like the look of the new page, and I'm
happy for the wiki to live behind that page, under the "Wiki" link. I
don't see any benefit to modifying the front page of the wiki to match
the content of the new static front page - that just makes things
harder to access. I have some concerns that editing the new front page
is harder, and so it's more effort to keep up to date. But I'm willing
to see how the maintainers cope with that before complaining.

I'd like to see the "Wiki" and "News" links separate. The "News" link
could point to the wiki Mercurial/NewsItems page. There's a test for
the website maintainers - how easy is it to do this?

Paul.