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digitalmars.D - Looking to remove the "Page wiki" buttons

reply Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail erdani.org> writes:
The click rate on the "Page wiki" buttons linking to one wiki page per 
phobos page seems to be 0%. Any significant wiki pages in existence? -- 
Andrei
Jun 07 2015
parent reply "Vladimir Panteleev" <vladimir thecybershadow.net> writes:
On Monday, 8 June 2015 at 05:16:32 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

 The click rate on the "Page wiki" buttons linking to one wiki 
 page per phobos page seems to be 0%.


Wait, how do you know this?


 Any significant wiki pages in existence? -- Andrei


There were quite a few on the old wiki (which doesn't matter any 
more since the information is outdated). Moving the website to 
GitHub lowered the contribution bar, so I agree these buttons are 
mostly obsolete. Even if there is content there, it is not very 
discoverable.
Jun 08 2015
next sibling parent "Brad Anderson" <eco gnuk.net> writes:
On Monday, 8 June 2015 at 21:23:02 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:

 On Monday, 8 June 2015 at 05:16:32 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
 wrote:

 The click rate on the "Page wiki" buttons linking to one wiki 
 page per phobos page seems to be 0%.


 Wait, how do you know this?


 Any significant wiki pages in existence? -- Andrei


 There were quite a few on the old wiki (which doesn't matter 
 any more since the information is outdated). Moving the website 
 to GitHub lowered the contribution bar, so I agree these 
 buttons are mostly obsolete. Even if there is content there, it 
 is not very discoverable.


I imagine you could scrape the wiki access logs and check for 
when the referrer is dlang.org to see how much it's actually 
used. I suspect it's almost non-existent though.

When I added the Improve This Page button the goal was to make 
the website act like a moderated wiki. I didn't even know about 
the page wiki stuff until I went to implement that button. I 
suspect not many people realize it's there. The wiki is good but 
I don't think we should be encouraging edits to low traffic pages 
like most of these page wiki pages would be. The chance of 
stagnant, invalid information isn't worth it so I think we should 
drop it.
Jun 08 2015
prev sibling parent reply Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail erdani.org> writes:
On 6/8/15 2:23 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:

 On Monday, 8 June 2015 at 05:16:32 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

 The click rate on the "Page wiki" buttons linking to one wiki page per
 phobos page seems to be 0%.


 Wait, how do you know this?


I think they call that "rampant speculation".


 Any significant wiki pages in existence? -- Andrei


 There were quite a few on the old wiki (which doesn't matter any more
 since the information is outdated). Moving the website to GitHub lowered
 the contribution bar, so I agree these buttons are mostly obsolete. Even
 if there is content there, it is not very discoverable.


So what's the action item here?


Andrei
Jun 08 2015
parent reply "Vladimir Panteleev" <vladimir thecybershadow.net> writes:
On Monday, 8 June 2015 at 22:24:24 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

 So what's the action item here?


Here are all the pages on the new wiki:

http://wiki.dlang.org/?title=Special%3APrefixIndex&prefix=DocComments&namespace=0

It looks like people have been using the wiki as a bug report 
system (and one not very effective at that).

Bugzilla allows creating bug report links with some fields 
pre-filled. How about we replace it such a link? Example:

https://issues.dlang.org/enter_bug.cgi?bug_file_loc=http%3A%2F%2Fdlang.org%2Fpage%2Fname%2Fhere&bug_severity=enhancement&component=websites&op_sys=All&priority=P3&product=D&rep_platform=All&short_desc=%5Bdlang.org%2Fpage%2Fname%2Fhere%5D&version=D2
Jun 08 2015
parent reply Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail erdani.org> writes:
On 6/8/15 3:54 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:

 On Monday, 8 June 2015 at 22:24:24 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

 So what's the action item here?


 Here are all the pages on the new wiki:

 http://wiki.dlang.org/?title=Special%3APrefixIndex&prefix=DocComments&namespace=0


 It looks like people have been using the wiki as a bug report system
 (and one not very effective at that).

 Bugzilla allows creating bug report links with some fields pre-filled.
 How about we replace it such a link? Example:

 https://issues.dlang.org/enter_bug.cgi?bug_file_loc=http%3A%2F%2Fdlang.org%2Fpage%2Fname%2Fhere&bug_severity=enhancement&component=websites&op_sys=All&priority=P3&product=D&rep_platform=All&short_desc=%5Bdlang.org%2Fpage%2Fname%2Fhere%5D&version=D2


Yes, I LOVE "Report a bug". Can you please make it so! -- Andrei
Jun 08 2015
parent "Vladimir Panteleev" <vladimir thecybershadow.net> writes:
On Monday, 8 June 2015 at 23:28:33 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

 Yes, I LOVE "Report a bug". Can you please make it so! -- Andrei


https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dlang.org/pull/1013

If someone from the compiler team could look at 
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14668 , we could also 
prepopulate the "URL" field.
Jun 08 2015