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Updated MathJax Web Presence re organization (markdown) authored Aug 03, 2012 by pkra's avatar pkra
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Some thoughts on the MathJax presence on teh intertubez(tm).
* Where are we?
* www.mathjax.org
* github.com/mathjax
* google groups
* twitter, facebook, linkedin
* Where else could we be? What could we use?
* google+ page
* youtube/vimeo etc for video tutorials
* stackexchange/osqa for ourselves
What are we doing where?
* github
* code repository (duh!)
* development wiki (double duh!)
* issue tracker
* testing suite repository
* development tools repository
* soon: docs repository, example-apps repository
* google groups
* user group -> everything
* dev group -> MJ development related stuff
* social networks
* twitter: looking for conversations
* linkedin: MJ group for announcements
* facebook: for announcements
* www.mathjax.org
* wordpress
* blog/news
* pages about MathJax (pretty wild mix)
* sphinx docs
### current issues
* www.mathjax.org
* docs have "fake" wordpress theme.
* docs 1.1 not showing that they are outdated.
* wordpress search vs docs search -> confusion
* wordpress contains some stuff that really belongs to the documentation
* and vice versa
### who are our users?
* What types of users do we have?
* The Reader
* has seen content using MathJax
* maybe did a search, clicked on a badge, maybe a potential sponsor
* just wants to know what it is
* might become...
* The Author
* wants to author mathematical content
* might become...
* The Developer
* writes some kind of application that involves mathematical notation
* could be a web app, mobile app, desktop app
* might become...
* The Hacker
* wants to modify MathJax
* maybe just for an app, maybe write an extension, maybe a jax, maybe get fully involved
* What do these types need?
* The Reader
* needs a good landing page
* needs to know that readers don't have to do anything
* needs to be wowed with some cool demos ;)
* might want to know about helpers (FF font plugin, Mathjax-This-Page bookmarklet, greasemonkey scripts)
* might need to know about user group
* The Author
* needs to understand what authors have to do, depending on their authoring platform
* needs to understand CDN
* might need to understand installing MathJax on a server
* might need info for platforms (wordpress, blogspot, mediawiki etc)
* might need small tweaks (disqus-comments scripts)
* might need authoring help (pandoc, Qute, MathType, apps)
* needs to know about the user group
* might need to know about issue tracker
* might want to add/modify our documentation
* The Developer
* needs to know about API
* needs to know about the issue tracker
* needs to know about "shrinking", which parts of MathJax are needed for which browsers
* needs to know about example apps
* needs to know about helpful snippets
* might want to add/modify our documentation
* might want to be on the dev list
* The Hacker
* needs to know about testing suite, development tools, development wiki
### Re-organizing our web presence
Some ideas.
* www.mathjax.org
* pure landing page
* i.e., only highly stable content such as info for Readers
* good navigation for everybody else (i.e. to news/blog and docs)
* blog.mathjax.org
* for what used to be www.mathjax.org/news as well as "usefully outdated" content (Neil's article on a11y, Hylke's article on LMS)
* docs.mathjax.org
* our new docs, hosted at rtfd
* structured to help Authors, Developers and Hackers find the right parts
* incorporates the documentation from www.mathjax.org (e.g. Mathjax-in-Use, epub readers, browser-compatibility)
* easier to add user contributions via "edit on github"
* clearly distinguished theme to avoid confusion with main site
* How?
* docs -> rtfd.org
* website -> github-pages/jekyll
* What would it require?
* convert our theme to jekyll (use twitter-bootstrap?)
* understand rtfd.org standard theme enough to get some "branding" going (i.e., link to www.mathjax.org & logo)
* OR design sphinx theme (needs: add manual links for versions, allows: better control, warning of old versions)
* Transition
* introduce docs.mathjax.org, blog.mathjax.org slowly & use redirects to update search engines (one caveat of github/pages: no redirects :()
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