[Bioperl-l] a Main Page proposal

[Smithies, Russell]

Here's a few comments to ignore at will :-)

How about using a different default skin so it doesn't look like all the other installations of MediaWiki?
I've attached a screenshot of one of my wikis using the "Daddio" skin but a bit of crafty CSS can do wonders.
Also, there's a lot of duplication with most of the links on Mediawiki:Sidebar also appearing on the main page content.
The "Treeview" is a nice extension as well for tidying up complex menus http://semeb.com/dpldemo/index.php?title=Treeview_extension 

I've got a bit of experience with wikis and extensions (we use LOTS of extensions) so let me know if there's anything you need.

--Russell


> -----Original Message-----
> From: bioperl-l-bounces at lists.open-bio.org [mailto:bioperl-l-
> bounces at lists.open-bio.org] On Behalf Of Mark A. Jensen
> Sent: Monday, 21 September 2009 4:23 p.m.
> To: BioPerl List
> Subject: [Bioperl-l] a Main Page proposal
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> As Brian articulated so well for many of us,
> the wiki main page is, well, butt-ugly.
> Please check out the Main Page Beta at
> http://www.bioperl.org/wiki/Main_Page_Beta
> and respond to this thread or on the discussion
> page.
> 
> cheers and thanks,
> MAJ
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