On Wed, 17 Sep 2008, Karanbir Singh wrote: > Dag Wieers wrote: >> > Whats the aim of creating duplicate content and thereby creating more >> > legacy ? >> >> The aim would be that more people could actually improve the content, >> instead of having it sit there, look ugly and not helping with donations >> at all. > > If there is such a mass of humanity looking to improve the content, why is > that effort not directed at fixing the issues with the website ? How would John Doe be able to help with the website ? They can readily help with the wiki today. >> If you want me to say we should replace the Website by the Wiki, I will :) > > you can say that if you like, but its not going to happen. Right. >> Sorry, but every link from the wiki going to the website is but-ugly, >> looks disconnected and unprofessional. > > so why band-aid rather than fix the problem ? Why is the wiki a band-aid. A lot of projects only use a wiki and are very successful in doing so. >> Right, and the website obviously is much better in providing content to >> users (not). > > the website gets a magnitude of more traffic than the wiki, so I'd say yes > its a better mechanism at the moment. The website gets more traffic because it is called http://centos.org/ and is linked everywhere, not because the content is able to deliver. I am confident that a news-item on the wiki has more effect, than having the same news-item on the website given they would both be called http://centos.org/ But that is not the point, the point is that there is nothing wrong with having news-items on the wiki, just like on the website, or the mailinglist, or planet centos for that matter. It does not have to be either-or. >> Sorry Karanbir, we could argue about the principles of having a website >> and a wiki, but as long as the website is in the state it is now I would >> *never* recommend anyone to go to the website. > > but you dont want to make any efforts to fix that situation ? No, and apparently others don't want to either. So I guess the official position is to wait until someone does it. >> Right, we could discuss what news-item to put on the frontpage, but I >> think it is important to also put highlights on the wiki simply because >> nobody ever visits both. > > I'd like to see what analytics were used in reaching that decision. I never visit the website, and I doubt many people return to the website if they know about the wiki. -- -- dag wieers, dag at centos.org, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors]