[wp-docs] Structure & Priorities

[Morgan Doocy]

On Dec 14, 2004, at 10:26 PM, Matthew Thomas wrote:
> I don't think that would work. I refer again to  
> <http://wordpress.org/pipermail/docs_wordpress.org/2004-February/ 
> 000163.html>: "I don't think it's at all obvious, to the person who  
> asks a question, how hard it will be to answer. This is software, so  
> simple questions often have complicated answers and obscure questions  
> often have simple answers."

I think I'm going to go back on something I said before and agree with  
this. Users are looking for a subject, not for a skill set.

> A task-based index would look something like ...
>
> .... Oh, wait, why am I posting this to the list? The Wiki is a Wiki.  
> So, I've just stomped on the front page  
> <http://codex.wordpress.org/?title=Main_Page&diff=1195&oldid=1193> and  
> turned it into a task-based index. If you violently disagree, don't  
> reply to this list, just edit the dang Wiki.  
> <http://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page> :-)
>
> I've created three of the sub-indexes, too, just as examples.  
> Ultimately I expect most of the sub-indexes will contain general  
> information about those topics, not just lists of links.

Great work! I like very much. Excellent job with the names, too.

> (On a side note, "Main Page" is a really silly title for the front  
> page of any site. Can someone with the power to change it to  
> "WordPress Help" please do so?)

I half agree on this. Wikipedia's main page is titled "Main Page," but  
somehow theirs doesn't look odd and ours does. Perhaps we can alleviate  
it with some subtext (à la "From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.")  
and by creating a logo.

Morgan