[Bf-committers] Wiki Dust: 2 "Why's" and a rant

[Campbell Barton]

On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 5:54 PM, Gaia <gaia.clary at machinimatrix.org> wrote:
> I noticed 2 annoyances with the Wiki User manual:
>
> 1.) When i open any page of the user manual...
>
> http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Manual
>
> Then i get greated with a big "Please don't edit 2.6 manual pages".
> And i remember last time i asked in IRC about 9 months ago,
> i was told to be patient for a few weeks until the reorganisation
> of the wiki has taken place...
>
> So if you are curious then go and check when the "wiki tasks
> review 2.6 Manual" has been updated the last time:
>
> http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Meta:Wiki_Tasks/Review_2.6_Manual
>
> I am not so sure what that means...
>
> Ok, so i have decided to stop waiting, ignore the message and
> started to update documents (which happen to not been
> touched since 2011, so what)
>
> However i always thought wikis are good for inviting users to
> help documenting. But if it is consense that "normal users" can
> not document with anticipated quality, then some "unnormal user"
> should be identified to at least keep the basic manuals  up to date.
>
> ok, enough ranting.

Good point - If nobody can give a reason to keep it we should just
remove this message.

> 2.) When i navigate in the left navigation bar ...
>
> and then select a page, the navigation bar collapses and i have
> to open all sublevels again to find the follow up page.
>
> Now why doesn't the left navigation bar keep its state ? And if
> that can not be done for technical reasons (which i doubt actually)
> then why don't we have at least a "previous/next page" link on
> each page ? And if that can not be done as well (which i doubt
> as well) then..., well then i don't know.
>
> I can live with the "Please don't help us improving the wiki"
> message on top of each page. But Please please please...
> Fix the navigation at least !!!
>
> -gaia-

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- Campbell