On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 10:19:37AM -0700, John Poelstra wrote: > Sorry, I lost the original thread to reply to. > > Could one of the requirements of the new site be to encompass > information currently found at wiki pages like this? > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Download > > It seems that we have this information spread out in a lot of different > places, including some of the official documentation. Having to > maintain it in fewer places seems like a better way to go. I agree, this is one of those common problems with a wiki that is tolerable because of the ease of collaboration and flexibility it offers. You end up with too many pages duplicating information and in many cases aging badly. I note that in one of Mo Duffy's mockups, there's a clearly defined link that would be seen after starting a download: http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/temp/woot/page3.png Look at the leftmost widget ("What should I do with this ISO file?") and you'll see where the link would come from. I think incorporating this information onto a page on the website makes sense, since it doesn't need to change often. That page shouldn't need to reflect release-specific information or links to downloads. (You'd be looking at the new page *subsequent* to downloading.) It bears pointing out that the information most important to end-users is already maintained by the Documentation team here: http://docs.fedoraproject.org/installation-quick-start-guide/f11/en-US/html/ http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f11/en-US/html/ The first one is where you'd want most new users to go, esp. in light of the simplified route to the default Live image. The second contains all the information needed to use Anaconda in the case of a general installation. That [[Download]] wiki page seems like an evolution of an old page from the original Fedora site that always had significant problems. It tries to hit too many targets at once and falls short of a lot of them at this point, because it's been overtaken by other routes to the same information. A well designed website shouldn't require most of what's on that page. It should be easy to download Fedora, verify the disc with the functions already on the image, and run it right away without having to drill down into link farms. -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
