| The second header line shows categories, whereas the links in the grey | boxes are to articles. The "idioms" category collects together articles | that are about idioms. | | We could have an "idioms" or "programming techniques" article as well, | of course. It only needs to be written. Interesting. I thought there would be a rationale! But my point is this: I didn't even know that there is a concept of a "category" on the Haskell web site. And I visit it regularly. An innocent visitor certainly won't. Now I know that there is such a concept, but I have no idea what it might mean, or how I might use it. My suggestion: by all means have categories, whatever they are. But can we arrange the home page of Haskell.org so that a new and ignorant visitor can simply look on the visible page (without prior knowledge) and know where to go? And can there be some information readily accessible that explains what categories are, and how to use them and add to them? Sorry to be stupid about this. Simon
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But can we arrange the home page of Haskell.org so that a new and ignorant visitor can simply look on the visible page (without prior knowledge) and know where to go?
Yes, yes, go ahead and change the page as you like. Getting it just right is harder than it seems, though. Meanwhile I shall admonish contributors to bear in mind that our first audience is those expecting a web-site on Haskell and not necessarily interested in this "wiki" thing.
And can there be some information readily accessible that explains what categories are, and how to use them and add to them?
I'm hoping readers will just click on a category page and see a little index of relevant articles, and understand what it's about. I can edit the structure of category pages if necessary. Nevertheless it may be appropriate to make it clearer on the front page whether or not a link is a page with actual content or merely one of these indexy-things. Editing the website, on the other hand, takes us in MediaWiki territory. More prominent links to editing help on Wikipedia might be appropriate; strictly speaking I can't just copy it across for copyright reasons. -- Ashley Yakeley, Seattle WA WWED? http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/
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