On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 6:25 PM, Dale Bewley <dlbewley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 16:04 -0500, Max Spevack wrote: >> On Fri, 30 Jan 2009, Pascal Calarco wrote: >> > * Pascal will update the FWN StyleGuide to indicate that person >> > references should ideally reference the appropriate User: wiki page, >> > if it exists. If it does not, we will use CamelCase references as a >> > fallback. > > Ian Weller tells me FAS users can be queried on IRC by messaging zodbot: > > (02:56:24 PM) ianweller: .fas karsten wade > (02:56:25 PM) zodbot: ianweller: quaid 'Karsten Wade' ..<snip>.. > (02:56:29 PM) ianweller: .wikilink quaid > (02:56:31 PM) zodbot: ianweller: [[User:quaid|Karsten Wade]] > > This does seem to be handy, if not outisde typical workflow. It doesn't > seem complete though: > > (03:08:31 PM) dbewley1: .fas dale bewley > (03:08:33 PM) zodbot: dbewley1: 'dale bewley' Not Found! > > I checked and I have the 'privacy' box ticked in FAS, so I guess that's > why I'm missing. > > I see that to appease the wiki czar, we've so far decided to link to > [[User:FAS_LOGIN|Full Name]] and fall back to camel case after a manual > query fails. > > To be honest, I'm not very inclined to search for FAS usernames given a > full name just to link them from the article. I think it would be a > little too onerous. If camel case names are deemed evil, should we > discuss how valuable it is to have name links at all? Generally I'm all > for the more links the better, but I'd prefer to keep things as easy as > possible on us writers. I'm in agreement here I think. Unless there's an easy way to find people's names or guess them then it becomes time-consuming to find them in the wiki. I was using the wiki advanced search with the User box ticked and gave up after doing a couple because it took so long. By comparison it's pretty easy to guess people's CamelCase name in general. The only way I can think of around this is to obtain a dump of the FAS usernames correlated to the surname/familyname of the user. We could probably then use this to build dictionaries for whatever texteditors we use (see next point). > Maybe we can discuss beat writer personal workflows. Describe our own > habits, and pick up some tips from others. Probably best to start a new > thread for that. The workflows do indeed make a big difference to what we expect or can achieve from the above changes. I'll look for the other thread or go start it now. Mine's a bit wonky but it had distinct advantages until the above changes! Best wishes, -- Oisin Feeley http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/OisinFeeley _______________________________________________ Fedora-news-list mailing list Fedora-news-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-news-list
