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Good job people! :)
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yorik wrote: Mon Feb 07, 2022 11:46 am
If you don't mind, I'd like to add a link to this new page: https://wiki.freecadweb.org/Missing_features

to the wiki sidebar. Can I ask you for help with this ?
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NewJoker wrote: Fri Mar 11, 2022 9:01 am If you don't mind, I'd like to add a link to this new page: https://wiki.freecadweb.org/Missing_features to the wiki sidebar.
I hope you won't take it badly, but this doesn't seem like a good idea to me... The sidebar should only contain shortcuts to pages that users need to consult often or find quickly, and the less items there is, the easier and faster it is for users to use it. We shouldn't populate it with every new page.

Why not add it to the FAQ instead? That might be useful for newcomers.
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yorik wrote: Fri Mar 11, 2022 12:53 pm
I hope you won't take it badly, but this doesn't seem like a good idea to me... The sidebar should only contain shortcuts to pages that users need to consult often or find quickly, and the less items there is, the easier and faster it is for users to use it. We shouldn't populate it with every new page.

Why not add it to the FAQ instead? That might be useful for newcomers.
All right, I just thought that this page could be added for example to the General usage tab of the wiki sidebar since I think that it can be helpful for new users looking for particular functionalities that can't be found in FreeCAD and wanting to know the workarounds for them. But a reference on the FAQ page is also a very good idea, thanks for suggesting that. The page should be a bit more visible now.

Maybe a short mention at the end of this page could be also possible? https://wiki.freecadweb.org/Feature_list
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NewJoker wrote: Fri Mar 11, 2022 1:34 pm Maybe a short mention at the end of this page could be also possible? https://wiki.freecadweb.org/Feature_list
Yes, that might be good... Although I would maybe rename your page from "Missing Features" to for ex. "Workarounds". Because a lot of people come from proprietary software with already a lot of bias towards FOSS software... Only by seeing a page labelled "missing features" some will say "Oh god, FreeCAD is not good enough, it has MISSING FEATURES!!".

Then it could go in https://wiki.freecadweb.org/User_hub too
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yorik wrote: Fri Mar 11, 2022 2:00 pm Yes, that might be good... Although I would maybe rename your page from "Missing Features" to for ex. "Workarounds". Because a lot of people come from proprietary software with already a lot of bias towards FOSS software... Only by seeing a page labelled "missing features" some will say "Oh god, FreeCAD is not good enough, it has MISSING FEATURES!!".

Then it could go in https://wiki.freecadweb.org/User_hub too
I see what you mean and I will try to make it sound less discouraging while keeping the main goal.
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NewJoker wrote: Fri Mar 11, 2022 2:14 pm I see what you mean
Please let me know if the page should be renamed.
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I have gone ahead and renamed the page as Yorik suggested: Workarounds.
3 pages link to the page now:
Online_Help_Toc
Frequently_asked_questions
User_hub
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Roy_043 wrote: Wed Mar 23, 2022 10:44 am I have gone ahead and renamed the page as Yorik suggested: Workarounds.
3 pages link to the page now:
Thanks but I'm not sure about this particular name since many of the missing features listed there have no possible workarounds. I was thinking about how to name this page and I kept coming to the conclusion that "Missing features" would be the best choice if not the aspect mentioned by Yorik - potentially discouraging users. My other thought was to name this page "Unimplemented features" (sounds better than "missing") or (even more safe but longer) "Not yet implemented features". Do you have any other ideas ?
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whishlist ;)
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