Re: [9fans] sources/contrib index

[Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com>]

> [3] http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/Mirrors/

Here is an important tip for writing wiki pages:
   *** explain what the point is ***

This page is a perfect example of a bad page.
It is just a collection of links with no explanation
of why you might want to click on those links
or what the bigger context is.

There should always be a couple of sentences
at the top of the page explaining what's going on.
It makes a huge difference in the usability of
the page, especially if one is following a hyperlink
in an email or external server and has no context
at all.

The problem is not limited to the above page.
Many pages suffer from this problem.

I try to clean these up as I see them, but I don't
always have time.

Thanks.
Russ