Re: Creating a survey for improving the FSD

[bill-auger]

On Thu, 29 Dec 2022 20:41:15 +0700 Ade wrote:
> 2) Like wikipedia, please show pictures of software and allow
> contributors to contribute screenshot for each program

that is already possible - "screenshot URL" is a primary data
element (available to all entries) - if no screenshot is
pre3sent, it is because the reviewer did not make one - the
screenshot is probably not mandatory data for an entry; so
probably the only way to fulfill this request, would be to make
screenshots mandatory for all entries


On Thu, 29 Dec 2022 20:41:15 +0700 Ade wrote:
> felt that visiting FSD lacks the feeling of visiting any wiki website,

i have suggested for years that the FSD website should NOT look
like a wiki - that alone is intimidating and messier than it
needs to be, and is the main reason why it appears to have fallen
out of the 90s - a wiki is great for a knowledge-base, but is a
very messy interface to impose upon what is really a flat catalog
of rarely changing items (for the most part, edits are rare,
entries rarely cross-link, etc) - if it were time to start the
FSD project anew now, probably the data would be stored in a git
repo, not a wiki

it is a wiki though - thats the legacy - so my suggestion is that
the FSD wiki could be retained as-is, but only for team members
with write access - everyone else would use a more conventional
website presenting the wiki data (however someone cares to dress
it up, and whenever), but with no wiki functions and a cleaner
interface