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|summary=Discussion of how to make this site (and ''especially'' its content) “usable”, particularly in relation to how to find things and understand them.
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I've seen a few people try to use RC and there seems to be a fundamental problem arising: there's too much stuff to sift through. People are finding it difficult to find the kind of code they're looking for. Some tasks aren't named exactly how some people would name them, and the tasks aren't organized very well (this was started long ago, but was abandoned and wasn't really that good to start). I think we need to make a big effort to make this site a bit more usable. We need a way to organize tasks, we need to set up redirects for different names of tasks, and maybe we need a better search function. We seem to have good pages in place to direct new users through adding content, so I don't think we need help there unless solutions to these problems will change those processes. Use this page to record usability problems with the site and then brainstorm solutions. --[[User:Mwn3d|Mwn3d]] 23:05, 23 March 2010 (UTC)
: It would be nice to see a "This page is in these categories" box, and be able to (from there) see what other pages are in those categories. It could be done with Javascript and the MediaWiki API. --[[User:Short Circuit|Michael Mol]] 06:48, 24 March 2010 (UTC)
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