Olaf Hannemann wrote:
I think, we shouldn't change the Layout completely, but for the use of Interwiki Links and things like that it would be fine if the German http://de.opensuse.org/Dokumentation looks like the English master wiki http://en.opensuse.org/Documentation.
I'm not so sure of that. we must take account of the fact that the en wiki is the older one, and this mean it's in great part obsolete or made of superposed planes, and it's the more difficult to fix. In this case I think the German page is the older one. (the English one changed some time ago, but the German doesn't follow) I would like to have a
Am Samstag, 13. Mai 2006 16:07 schrieb jdd: page where links are easy to find. and not clicking Dokumentation -> Benutzer Dokumentation -> Start für neue Benutzer ....and so on. Clicking Dokumentation must show up the main topics. I don't want to worry about questions like "is it a Novell, a SUSE, a User or something else documentation". I want to find the topic I was looking for. So even the FAQs and things like these must be easy to find.
the download page is so a mess I could not accept to keep it like it is. I myself revamped quite heavily this part, see http://fr.opensuse.org/Téléchargement Ack!
Of course, if a real discussion arise and the english page get a clear and wondefull aspect, I will follow it. as long as this is not the case I would be glad to see ideas in the others wikis Didn't want to say we must do every thing like in the en wiki but I think the main pages like Front page, Documentation page ..etc should look something simular. Changing this should be a general discussion. The content may be different.
Another aspect is, that the user can easily switch between the languages and find everything in the place he is used to. few users really switch langages. an anglish reading user is free to use the en page if he find it better. Don't know for real. I'm used to look on the German site. If I don't find it there I switch to the English site and this happens very often.
I personnally think than simplicity must be the key and that the front page must be simpler than whats it is now. Full Ack
anyway localized wikis have in my opinion a quite different goal from the english one. Fort example, I do not translate the developpement version page. It's not entirely a choice, I only choiced not to make them a priority. anyway, people interested in this have to read english. Ack! I think developers and translators should be able to read English documentation. But.... the links should work. They don't on the de-site.
Regards, Olaf