Re: Wiki - Proposal to update the Welcome page

[Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>]

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On Sat, 23 May 2020, Garulfo wrote:

>
>>> 1/ Concerning the Manuals Page
>>>    - As proposed, "obsolete banners" are added to thumbnails  of the
>>>      oldest manuals.
>> Looks good. A few minor comments:
>> I haven't tested it, but the natural tables in context examples (in 
>> Sec 3.6) should still work with latest versions.
>> The "context rehab for amsmath addicts" should be in math (or 
>> sciences) rather than tables. (This reminds me, I should update that 
>> reference).
>
> Both corrections are made, thanks for your help.
>
>
>>>    - About providing zips of manuals per topics: maybe we could just
>>>      add a index.html in the distribution structure, to provide the
>>>      user with a browsing system similar to the wiki's one.
>>>    - If the admistrators wish, I can now replace the current page.
>>
>> One concern that I have is how easy it is to navigate the page on the 
>> phone. Currently, it does not really work on the phone. Is there some 
>> way to make it more responsive?
>
> Thanks again, of primary importance.
>
> Should be far better now (quickly checked on two smartphones, one 
> android and one ios)

Thanks. Both pages look good on mobile now. I am okay with merging this with the old manuals page. A small suggestion is that we could omit the table of content on this page, as it is almost redundant in the new format.

>>> 2/ After  the Manuals,  please find a proposal for the Welcome Page,
>>>    which is probably trickier
>>>    - https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Main_Page_TempProposal
>>>    - https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Main_Page (the current)
>>>    - 4 objectives :
>>>     1/ do something more visual, reduce the amount of text,
>> Some of us prefer text. What was earlier a one step process for me (go 
>> to home page, search for keyword, go to page), is now a two step 
>> process. But I agree that the new proposed layout is more friendly to 
>> new users and support it.
>
> Yes, I suspected that the current version had advantages as a result of 
> past iterations.
>
> It would be interesting to identify the links that people want to access 
> in one step. We can list them in 
> https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Talk:Main_Page_TempProposal, and I will 
> try to find ways to integrate them.

Personally, I don't think that it is a big deal.

>>>     2/ provide a fairly comprehensive overview with less than 15
>>>            topics,
>>>         3/ but hold in one (big) screen,
>>>     4/ avoid redundancies on the Welcome Page,
>>>     5/ match both the Wiki's structure & the Manuals' structure.
>>>
>>> Again, depending on  your feedbacks, I would be happy to improve it.
>>>
>>> It's built from scripts  ==>  not too hard now to reorder, to adapt.
>> You should also document your work flow somewhere (perhaps the talk 
>> page of the same page or a dedicated page on the wiki). That is useful 
>> for long term maintainability of the wiki.
>
> Done: two zip files are uploaded, with link and brief description in the 
> Talk zone of the respective pages.

Thanks.

I am okay with changing the main page as well. But since this is the main page, let's wait for the other mods to chime in as well.

Aditya

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