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Re: trying to finish up

Posted by Michael Lenczner on Mar 26, 2006; 7:31pm
URL: http://civicaccess.416.s1.nabble.com/trying-to-finish-up-tp374p389.html

On 3/26/06, Robin Millette <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> On 3/26/06, Michael Lenczner <[hidden email]> wrote:
> > On 3/26/06, Patrick Dinnen <[hidden email]> wrote:
> > > I really like Daniel's proposed front page text. I like the clear
> > > 'manifesto' and call to action sections.
> > >
> > > I still feel it would be useful to have a non-wiki front page for the
> > > site (not sure if this was your thought or not Daniel?). We're told not
> > > to judge books by their covers', but we still do it all the time. I
> > > wouldn't want people to be scared off by the wiki-look of the site
> > > before they get an idea what it's about.
> >
> > I know that tracey and I strongly support a non-wiki front page.
>
> At FACIL, we're also using moinmoin for our wiki, but our website
> isn't a wiki. Actually, it's a static copy of the wiki, without all
> the wiki buttons and navigation and a slightly different look. Each
> page of the static site is copied 24h hours after it's changed on the
> wiki, automatically. All pages of the wiki are editable by anyone.
>
> I could adapt gow (the little piece of code bridging moinmoin and the
> FACIL website) for civic access if you think it would help.
>
> See http://facil.qc.ca/ and http://wiki.facil.qc.ca/ to see what I'm
> talking about. Yes, gow needs a little upgrade to easily support both
> official languages, it's on my todo.
>
i think this is cool - and it does a great job of freeing wiki
functionality from wiki UI - but I'm worried that it is *even*more*
confusing that having a wiki.  How do you explain it to people that we
want to get involved?  "Go change things on the site but you have to
make changes on the wiki, which actually isn't the site or really look
like the site, but changes will be synchorized to the "real" site
within 24 hours?"  Considering 1/2 of our possible don't know what a
wiki is I would recommend against for now.

Just my opinion, though.

> P.S. may I politely ask we keep our quotes shorter in replies to this list?
>

sorry :-(
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> Président de FACIL : http://facil.qc.ca/
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