It's fine to promote the wiki on the home page *as a wiki*. It's not fine to have things like the 'mailing list' page be linked into the wiki.
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 10:47 AM, Robin Anil <[email protected]> wrote: > Having the wiki promoted on the homepage, has help us a lot in terms of > organizing content and help pages from volunteers and also reduced the > burden of keeping content checked into the svn like its 2000s . Confluence > exporter always broke the formatting of the current Wiki page. I haven't > tried the revamped exporter, maybe it will help, but I am not sure(since a > lot of funky hacking was done to make Wiki look like the mahout home page) > Robin > > On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 8:11 PM, Benson Margulies <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> Infra says that the the CPU load of having users hit confluence as the >> web site is unacceptable to them. >> >> On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 10:37 AM, Robin Anil <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Its not done anywhere else, so it might be unpopular. >> > But, is there a real problem in doing that? Security wise? Infra wise? >> > Robin >> > On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 7:39 PM, Benson Margulies <[email protected]> >> > wrote: >> >> >> >> Unless I'm more confused than usual, we're exposing the confluence >> >> instance in links on our front page. This is very very unpopular with >> >> the infra team. (The front page itself is a static html pages, but >> >> many of the links on it point to cwiki). Infra has their internal CMS. >> >> An alternative is to use Dan Kulp's revamped confluence exporter. But >> >> I think we have to do something. >> > >> > > >
