CZ:Proposals/CZ Community pages should be revised for simplicity

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Revision as of 21:49, 12 February 2008 by imported>Larry Sanger
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Summary

Part of what is keeping our "elitism shield" up is that many (if not all) of the community pages are overly complex. A campaign to heavily review and edit the pages will give us leaner, easy-to-comprehend documentation and improve our external appearance.

Process

  • A well-rounded discussion
  • Aggregated Review of the community pages
  • The review should include opinions and analyses from everyone who wishes to voice their concerns
  • A focused effort on slimming up the documentation ensuring that their meaning is not lost

Discussion

I have two reactions to this. (1) The summary and process above don't constitute a complete proposal. Everyone recognizes the need to improve our community pages. I plug away regularly at them, and I am constantly begging people to help with them. The problem, quite obviously, is not that we needed a "proposal" to tell us we need to improve our community pages. The problem is how to motivate people to actually work on them. If you had a proposal to address that effectively, well, that would be interesting. (2) The fact that there is no driver for your proposal I take as further evidence that this is a problem. --Larry Sanger 20:49, 12 February 2008 (CST)