Wiki musings

[Paul W. Frields]

On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 16:01 -0700, Karsten Wade wrote:
> > > That may be a problem, indeed. Perhaps it helps to use different colors
> > > for the row background (which may destroy the web design), or to use two
> > > or three separate tables?
> > 
> > Neither of those would address the problem of discouraging the casual
> > browsing.  They would merely be another kind of admonition.  IMHO the
> > tables should be on different pages, with the table of published docs
> > being prominent and the table of drafts... well, somewhere *less*
> > so. :-)
> 
> However, we miss potential contributors if we deliberately hide the
> drafts.  

That's a good point.

> Instead, think of going to download.fedora/fc<version>/ and seeing these
> choices:
> 
> core/
> updates/
> rawhide/
> 
> If you choose something called rawhide/, that's what you get.
> 
> We can only go so far in protecting people from themselves before we
> start to serve less good because of all the protective measures.

Shame on me! I usually try to quash this tendency.

> The table with different columns for complete and draft might be a good
> way to do this.  Or two lists, above and below each other, with the
> finished on the top, and the drafts on the bottom.
> 
> Also, this page needs to be manually populated, right?  Just creating
> Docs/Drafts/Foo doesn't need to put it in the table of choices.  When
> something is ready, as per the editor discretion, it is added to the
> list of drafts on Docs/.
> 
> People wandering the Wiki will find pages in Docs/Drafts/ marked with
> lots of "TIGERS BE HERE".  At that point, we have done what we can.  If
> they want to jump off the cliff to test their new wings, so be it.

I put sample admonitions on the pages I created earlier... those seem to
be plenty of warning to me.  (Anyone is welcome to sanitize them if
desired.)  I yield!

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Paul W. Frields, RHCE                          http://paul.frields.org/
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