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Welcome, DanKeshet, but do not change the Main Page of the Development Wiki for end user purposes - leave /wiki/ alone but change http://consumerium.org front page instead
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I find this front page absolutely overwhelming. All of your ideas re: signals in supermarkets are cool, but, frankly, when I arrived here, I hoped I could just find a list of companies, and quickly research whether, if I buy sneakers from Adidas, will I be supporting child slavery, etc. I'm new and don't want to step on toes by editing the main page, esp. if I have a different vision of what this should be. Do you mind if I give it a go and you can revert? Or should I discuss this somewhere else? [[User:DanKeshet|DanKeshet]] 22:08, 10 Mar 2004 (EET) | I find this front page absolutely overwhelming. All of your ideas re: signals in supermarkets are cool, but, frankly, when I arrived here, I hoped I could just find a list of companies, and quickly research whether, if I buy sneakers from Adidas, will I be supporting child slavery, etc. | ||
:Basically you want to browse the [[Research Wiki]]/[[Opinion Wiki]] which does not exist yet. Right now the [[Development Wiki]] is serving multiple purposes, but it serves those pretty well. Abstract language like [[Consumerium buying signal]] and [[terminal device]] is quite necessary for development purposes, but you are right, the ordinary user shouldn't see it. | |||
I'm new and don't want to step on toes by editing the main page, esp. if I have a different vision of what this should be. Do you mind if I give it a go and you can revert? Or should I discuss this somewhere else? [[User:DanKeshet|DanKeshet]] 22:08, 10 Mar 2004 (EET) | |||
:Please do ''not'' edit the [[Main Page]] of the [[Development Wiki]] to focus on end user concerns. This should be at http://consumerium.org itself - the REAL front page. The user doesn't want to become a wiki contributor to look up information such as you note. Right now all that is there is an ad for Wikipedia that assumes you already know what a "wiki" is, etc., which drives away most users. It MUST change, and it MUST change NOW. So if you want to prototype an HTML page for http://consumerium.org that would be very very welcome. There's some comment on it here, do a search or two, it has some non-obvious name like "things to do" | |||
:Long run, there are three different groups to serve, so there must be a [[Main Page User]], [[Main Page Researcher]] and a [[Main Page Developer]], and also a [[Main Page Troll]] possibly. | |||
:Notice at [[Meta-Wikipedia]], a similar situation, you have a main page that is basically for developers and frequent contributors, and to find the stuff of general interest there's a subpage [[Main Page Neutral]] (neutral as to the interests it serves). | |||