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[Barry Warsaw <barry@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sep 12, 2009, at 12:47 PM, Karl Fogel wrote:

> See above, and my previous mail.  "Debugging" is *not* the new name  
> for
> the "Tips and Tricks" page.  What I'm saying is that a "Tips and  
> Tricks"
> page is a seductive but ultimately nugatory idea, and that the more
> useful (but harder) thing to do is find topic-appropriate places in  
> the
> wiki for each individual tip/trick as it comes up.

Right.  I'm just observing that this approach can often bury useful  
information in hard to find places.

> Search function?

Yes; when you know the information you want is in there somewhere, but  
you can't remember where, and you've had no luck trying to guess the  
path from the front page, you reach for search.  Unfortunately, Moin  
search leaves a lot to be desired (but Google crawling our site might  
be better).

Of course, it's a wiki so you can have your cake and eat it too.  You  
can situate the information close to similar content, and still keep a  
page that collects links to these useful bits in one place.

-Barry

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