On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 5:26 AM, Jeremy White jwhite@winehq.org wrote:
Oh, I don't know. Seems to me that the wiki it's a *better* landing page for newbies; it does a better job of leading them by the hand without making them scroll or click.
I disagree. People still have an expectation that a 'front page' has some sort of introductory component to it.
The wiki does have introductory content. It says, right at the top:
"Wine enables Linux, Mac, BSD, and Solaris users run Windows applications without a copy of Microsoft Windows. Wine is free software under constant development. "
And even users expect to need to go to a front page, I think they would almost be caught off guard to be thrown straight into a Wiki.
I wasn't proposing replacing www.winehq.org with a wiki; the wiki front page is just a very rough draft of what the front page should be. (I'm not happy with it yet, either, but I think it's an improvement info-access-wise over our current front page.)
And I don't like the notion that users somehow get to trump all other potential uses of the web page.
It's a simple matter of reducing unusability for the greatest number of people.
And besides, we work for the users, don't we? :-) - Dan