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Wiki layout...

We really should consider exactly how to lay out the wiki... We should probably see how others (especially the KoL wiki) do it and take inspiration... :)

Also, I'm thinking we should eventually have a page for each function, to make searching the wiki more valuable... :)

--Daychilde 23:00, 8 January 2007 (CST)

I agree with your idea about one-page-per-function.

Also I think every* function's documentation should show a real-world example of use. The links to example scripts are a good start in this direction, but some code to read right on the function page would be nice. (*Yes, even the "you are not cool enough to use this" undocumented stuff.)

A master ASH function list page would be helpful. When trying to Find a keyword in browser to see if KM implements a given functionality, it's a minor PITA to have to click into each categorized page and search them all individually.

Also welcome would be some kind of icon, color, or other indicator for newly-added functions. Master list sorted/sortable by implementation version/date if possible.

Also, on the subject of general layout/UI improvements (since you asked): for the main page, I prefer a high-level bulleted-listy index/ToC, kinda like the ToCs on the current sourceforge manual pages. Personally, I find this more useful than the increasingly popular "widgety-portaly-stocks-news-and-weather" look.

Redundancy should be removed wherever possible -- e.g. (ASHRM) in front of every link. I understand if prefixes of that sort are there to assist in organizing the underlying database, but if not, I think they are totally unnecessary and a distraction -- that is, provided the containing page is appropriately identified with a nice big "ASH Reference Manual" heading at the top, breadcrumbs, etc.

I'll quit before I arrive at a frenzy of usability fanaticism the likes of which would make J. Nielsen repent like a dirty sinner. (Got work to do, actually. Now maybe if there was a "job opportunities" section.......)

--User:somebody who sincerely appreciates not having to register/login and probably wouldn't participate elsewise 12:35, 30 January 2007 (EST)

On the other hand, speed-bumping idiot apammers may be worth it. I could go on for ages about how offensive I find that kind of griefing (If you think life isn't a game, you're doing it wrong)--Metraxis 11:27, 18 February 2007 (CST)