Talk: Main Page

The purpose is to keep this discussion page with basic instructions on how to maintain the wiki. There is also a to-do list for improvement.

[SUGGESTION] Placing important links at the front page?

How about putting several important LibrePlanet links on the front page to make discovery easier? Featured pages are excellent, but they are not enough to convey more about what resources available at LibrePlanet website. Excellent examples given by The GNU Project website are that they do so. For example, the most important ones are Free Software Definition and GNU/Linux Distros Download at the bottom, while About, Education and Philosophy at the top. These make GNU.org very easy to navigate, access and understand -- it improves discoverability. I suggest LibrePlanet also put important pages on front page, for example:

Laptops Comparison: https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:Hardware/Laptops_Comparison
End Software Patent https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:End_Software_Patents
Nonfree software blacklist https://libreplanet.org/wiki/List_of_software_that_does_not_respect_the_Free_System_Distribution_Guidelines
Fight to Repair https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:FSF/Fight-to-Repair
Windows 7 Sins https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:Windows_7_Sins
Open Document Format https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:OpenDocument

Suggestion applied to the main page of the LibrePlanet Wiki. Thank you very much for contributing your suggestions! - Kaiod (talk) 11:07, 26 February 2022 (EST)

Design Guidelines

Design guidelines are basically references to existing documentation below. We will need to avoid using Tables to ensure an accessible and responsive portal for mobile devices.

SVG Logo: https://libreplanet.org/w/skins/Tweeki/custom/lp-logo.svg
UI theme mockup: https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Libreplanet-theme-mediawiki
Theme doc: https://tweeki.thai-land.at/wiki/Welcome
Edit CSS on https://libreplanet.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Tweeki.css
Edit Nav on https://libreplanet.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Tweeki-navbar-left (right/brand)
Components ref: https://getbootstrap.com/docs/4.3/components/alerts/

Navigation proposal

This is an initial framework for portal navigation. Following this structure, we can keep a "site map" documented here as a basic reference for organizing content.

To-Do List

Involve as many people as possible to test the new theme.
Collaborate on article structure review and translation
Refresh local organizations page and propose default template
Propose a default template for user profile
Structure the teams
Structure the events
...

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Note: if you edit this page, please sign your edit with 4 tildes: ~~~~ Iank (talk) 15:20, 25 June 2018 (EDT)

Where do I list my new page?

I've made this page:

When should firmware be free

It isn't a group and doesn't need a group to form around it, and it isn't an essay either. It's just part of the wiki - an article, which I'll improve from time to time and I hope other transients will too. Does this wiki have a section for normal wiki pages :-) ? Ciaran 20:23, 9 June 2012 (EDT)

And this page:

Governments developing free software

Should I make a box on the Main Page for these pages?

Maybe the wiki needs a sitemap? The structure of this wiki seems to be missing something. It doesn't have the organic growth model, or the interconnectedness of other wikis. Is it possible that an over emphasis on Groups is harming the structure? Maybe a mixed Groups+normal_pages model would be better? Ciaran 17:26, 26 August 2012 (EDT)

And this:

When is digital inclusion good?

. Ciaran 13:55, 4 November 2012 (EST)

Pages I made - happy home sought

I've still no idea where to link to these pages:

. Ciaran 01:10, 22 January 2013 (EST) (UPDATED)

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