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General principles
Sorry to top post, but I think that we need to decide what goes on the front page. Do we include the WHO Pandemic phase (which has just gone to 4)? how do we keep to Jimbo's principle of balance while maintaining honesty? 82.47.23.21 23:06, 27 April 2009 (UTC)
Tab view
Hi, Ose! I was just looking at this wiki -- you guys are doing a really interesting job with it. There's one thing you may not know -- putting the Contents into a tab view actually hides it from Google search bots. Google won't be able to index the site properly if all the useful content links are hidden in the tab view, which will hurt our Google rank.
I would suggest putting the Header and the Contents into the actual main page code, and making the main page editable again. The stuff that you've done is cute, but it won't actually help the site if it makes our Google rank go down. -- Danny (talk) 19:34, 27 April 2009 (UTC)
- Thanks Danny - thats a good point. Normally this sort of JS just replaces content (so at least some shows by default), but this doesn't. I don't think getting rid of it causes us any great loss. So long as the contents are there, then the "helping out" section and the map can be compressed, or simply linked to (albeit quite visibly). I also think a latest news section would be more valuable than having multiple cluttered feeds. Gboyers talk 20:10, 27 April 2009 (UTC)
- I've expanded the tabview into straightforward transcludes (of Contents, News & Helping out). I've missed out Visualizing H1N1, but added the map into News. Does that still seem too cluttered? Gboyers talk 22:44, 27 April 2009 (UTC) EDIT: This section imported from User talk:Ose - Gboyers talk 22:46, 27 April 2009 (UTC)