>> Wikipedia (and its syntax), thus a Medawiki-based place is an >> excellent way to go. > > Wikipedia is the only wiki that works AFAIK, and that is because it > has a huge amount of review. All other Wikis I have seen and used so > far have failed, and caused more confusion and misinformation than > actually give good information. > > When I surf to jabber.org, I want to see a professional looking page > with 2 things: > - A 3-line explanation of what jabber is > - A button with "Join now", which creates me an account on the Jabber > network by only asking me questions that I know the answer to (Name, > Email, Preferred login name) > What I do see is: > - A website that looks like a perpetual work in progress. Pretty > scary, doesn't really sound like a good IM service to me. > - About 50 links, many of which are uninteresting (the sidebar, > because it's a wiki) > - "Create account" links that don't create a Jabber account > - Links to events that have passed, but nobody dares to touch the > front page, because nobody owns that page > - Links to things like 'discussion' that give me an error > - A quickstart guide that tells me to pick a server (a what? why?) > - A box saying that there have been GMail issues. When was that? This > morning? Last week? It seems this Jabber thing has lots of issues with > GMail, because it's been there for quite a while. (Why is it there? > Exactly, nobody dares to touch it) > > Want me to go on? :) > > Anyway, I'm not going to rant about Wikis anymore, this isn't helping. > I do believe that Peter's suggestion is a good one: one simple page to > get people hooked up with Jabber fast, that we can refer people to if > they want to chat on Jabber. One translator per language would be nice > to have the site translated, with a good system in place that notifies > of changes (which shouldn't happen often) to this page. >
+1 now that I know who's the target. On a more personal note, I can only agree with you. I seldom see Wikis that actually work and to be honest Wikis layout and usability are rather cumbersome but I digress :) - Sylvain -- Sylvain Hellegouarch http://www.defuze.org _______________________________________________ JDev mailing list Forum: http://www.jabberforum.org/forumdisplay.php?f=20 Info: http://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/jdev Unsubscribe: [email protected] _______________________________________________
