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"Chris B" wrote:
> The main intention of this posting was to promote discussion on the
> re-organisation of the Categorisations and the Hierarchical organisation
> of the links pages on the povray.org site. See paragraphs 2 and 3 above.
>
> Any thoughts on this?
Not on the structure directly, but I have a question regarding inclusion of
site links versus page links in the future.
In the current links collection, sometimes a whole site with many pages
devoted to POV-Ray and other relevant resources have just a single link
pointing to the home page of the site, and a description that summarizes the
content of the entire site. One gross example is this one: "Site contains
various macro utilities and object files for download. Visit site to see
what is available." Other sites have several links pointing to various
relevant pages on the site, with detailed descriptions on which resources
can be found on each specific page.
From the user's point of view, I guess the more detailed approach with links
to each page is the more helpful, so a lot of browsing on pages just to find
out what's actually on them can be avoided. However, naturally, it will mean
more links and more maintenance. This however could be helped if people from
the community could submit links themselves which would then just have to be
reviewed by a moderator before inclusion. Indeed authors of pages could
submit links themselves and doing the most of the work on ensuring that the
resources on their sites are optimally represented in the links collection
in the right categories and with the right descriptions.
However, looking at the current inconsistency, will there be any "policy" on
how detailed to go? How many links to different pages on the same site is
acceptable? (Some of the sites of the great POV-Ray community contributors
have dozens of pages, all relevant.)
I just thought it might be a good idea to consider such things early, just
like the re-organization of the categories.
Rune
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