[Strategic] Action: Single wiki page incorporating all Front Page and related suggestions

[Dermot McNally]

Folks,

At last week's meeting I took away the task to pull together the
various Front Page initiatives into one place. I feel I've been
partially successful, and the results are here:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Site_Design_and_Workflow

I haven't exhaustively hunted down all related sources, but I have
included all those that were named during the meeting. Of those, only
one is strictly Front Page related, with a few others having a focus
on workflow and usability. Although it was proposed that I pull this
into a page on the OSMF wiki, I discover that I don't have access to
that, but this can be readily copied there by somebody who does. That
said, if we are prepared to risk a bit of fiddling, having it on the
public wiki might help get pages included that I have missed.

On my approach - I ended up creating a page full of links. Given that
one of the sources is a longhand blog post that's probably OK. I have
tried to capture as much "useful" information into the page itself,
but editorial bias can creep in so others should please decide whether
they agree with the end result and tweak as appropriate.

_If_ these truly are our best sources of initiative, then there are
lots of worthy ideas and a lot of simple uncontroversial stuff that we
should probably JFD. What there seems not to be is strong consensus on
some of the more strategic bits. These are the bits I've tried to
include in this new document and probably it will bear a mixture of
discussion and some JFDI to try things out. I spent most of the day
installing the rails port, working out git and swearing a lot. The
actual coding was stupidly little and very swift, and we can certainly
afford to try out lots of things. A/B testing would be a very cute
idea if we can work out a plan.

Dermot

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