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Nixxx

Member

From: Poland

Registered: 2009-08-01

Posts: 85

What happened to the ArchWiki?

Hi All. What happened to the old style ArchWiki main page? Previously it was very easy to find crucial articles especially for the new users but also for me. Now the main content is hidden among other minor articles and quite difficult to find. Maybe I'll get used to it but at the moment i don't like this...

tomk

Forum Fellow

From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: What happened to the ArchWiki?

Are you looking at http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Main_Page? I don't see any links to minor articles on that page. :?

Tyriel

Member

From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2009-01-20

Posts: 161

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Re: What happened to the ArchWiki?

Hmm looks like the main page of the wiki has recently been updated.  I have to say I like the previous version more but I may be bias as I am used to has straight forward the old main page was.  Maybe this is an improvement over the old?

I guess you can truly only know if this is better or not by the number of questions asked on the forums which have a straight forward wiki solution.  With that said only time will show how useful this change will be.

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Nixxx

Member

From: Poland

Registered: 2009-08-01

Posts: 85

Re: What happened to the ArchWiki?

I meant about layout of Table of Content. For ex: how to find complete article about Xorg? Due to the main page the link to the "core" of wiki is not as visible as it should be. I agree maybe this is an improvement...

Last edited by Nixxx (2010-01-14 12:59:47)

Daenyth

Forum Fellow

From: Boston, MA

Registered: 2008-02-24

Posts: 1,244

Re: What happened to the ArchWiki?

Wow just saw that. The old one was much much cleaner looking. This looks jumbled and honestly less clear. It should be reverted.

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flamelab

Member

From: Athens, Hellas (Greece)

Registered: 2007-12-26

Posts: 2,160

Re: What happened to the ArchWiki?

+1. It looks so "full", the previous was cleaner and less difficult to read.

hatten

Arch Linux f@h Team Member

From: Sweden, Borlange

Registered: 2009-02-23

Posts: 736

Re: What happened to the ArchWiki?

Help! The new layout just scares me off =p

Misfit138

Misfit Emeritus

From: USA

Registered: 2006-11-27

Posts: 4,189

Re: What happened to the ArchWiki?

There is a discussion link on the Main Page's discussion page.
We should probably close this and move the discussion there.
Feel free to PM me if you disagree that this forum topic be closed, and I will reconsider opening it.
Thanks.

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