[Marketing] Static+wiki website integration problems to be fixed before Monday - urgent

[David Farning]

On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 10:02 AM, Sean DALY <sdaly.be at gmail.com> wrote:
> Following up on Friday's Marketing meeting
> (http://meeting.sugarlabs.org/sugar-meeting.log.20090313_1205.html)
> and my mail just prior
> (http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/marketing/2009-March/000507.html
> which Bernie responded to moments later), here is what we need to do
> to assure comprehensible navigation for Monday's anticipated traffic
> surge and to avoid search engine result weirdness as journalists link
> to us and visitors bookmark us.
>
> I have tried to list the most critical items to be fixed before the
> surge, but I think lots more work needs to be done after the launch to
> streamline navigation (I volunteer, still learning how to use a wiki).
> In particular, the menu bar at the top should be homogenized on the
> static and the wiki parts of the site; remember that new visitors will
> naturally assume that they are on one Sugar Labs website with
> different sections.
>
> Of course I am open to discussion, but we only have hours left until
> the surge and visitors will bookmark what they find; as some of these
> changes may have propagation delays it is important we iron out the
> wrinkles as soon as possible. Thanks.
>
>
>
> * The new homepage (sometimes called the "static site") should be
> http://www.sugarlabs.org. It should *not* be http://sugarlabs.org.
> http requests to that address should land on http://www.sugarlabs.org
> instead so visitors bookmark that address and not the shorter one.
>
>
> * the old homepage (http://sugarlabs.org/go/Main_Page) should now be
> called the wiki homepage, to communicate its role as the main page of
> the "workspace" part of the site. So it needs to have its title
> changed from "Sugar Labs/Welcome to Sugar Labs" to "Welcome to the
> Sugar Labs wiki". We had also agreed that its URL (and indeed all
> those of the wiki part) would become http://wiki.sugarlabs.org, but I
> don't know where we are with that, I still only see
> http://sugarlabs/go/...  (except in Google search results which
> started showing that URL yesterday). The goal is to communicate to the
> first-time user that she is clearly in the wiki part of the site and
> *not* the homepage, so she will hopefully seek to navigate to the
> homepage.
>
>
> * So in that connection a link to the homepage labeled "home" has been
> added to the leftmost position of the top menu bar in the wiki part of
> the site - thanks Bernie. This is good since it is identical
> nomenclature with the "static" part of the site, and links as it
> should to http://www.sugarlabs.org.
>
>
> * However, the wiki section stacked logo needs to link to the same
> address: http://www.sugarlabs.org, and not http://sugarlabs.org.
>
>
> * On http://sugarlabs.org/go/Main_Page, there is a link called Home in
> the green menu bar, it links to http://sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs. It
> should link to the homepage instead (http://www.sugarlabs.org). The
> current link remains accessible in the lefthand section list under
> Community/Sugar Labs.
>
>
> * Google returns the following text for the http://wiki.sugarlabs.org
> address: "11 Mar 2009 ... Spin-off of the "Sugar" desktop environment
> to another project." This should read instead: "www.sugarlabs.org is
> the homepage of the Sugar Labs nonprofit, maker of the Sugar Learning
> Platform for children." Note that we can update with text descriptive
> of the wiki after the launch, when the homepage will be properly
> indexed.
>
>
> * Similarly, Google returns the following text for the
> sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs address: "11 Dec 2008 ... The mission of
> Sugar Labs is to produce, distribute, and support the use of the Sugar
> learning platform; it is a support base and gathering .." This should
> read instead: "www.sugarlabs.org is the homepage of the Sugar Labs
> nonprofit, maker of the Sugar Learning Platform for children."

For both of the above two situations, google is returning stale
information.  Does any one know how to tell google what text to
excerpt?

david

> * We are planning a new Press page in the static part of the site for
> Monday. Note that there will be some overlap with
> http://sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/Current_Events, for example press
> releases. Not a big problem, but I will edit parts of that page as
> soon as the new Press page is up to avoid confusion (the direct link
> is still offered by Google under http://wiki.sugarlabs.org)
>