On Mon, 2007-04-30 at 13:01 +0300, Nicu Buculei wrote: > Francis Earl wrote: > > I originally posted this to fedora-docs-list not knowing that was the > > wrong place for it... this is a copy and paste as I believe this list is > > more the correct place: > > > > I'm looking for somewhere to get started on the wiki, and I'm not sure > > where to proceed? > > You can play in the sandbox: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/WikiSandBox > or view the code of any page to use as example. That seems like a good source for figuring out some more codes, thank you. It doesn't really seem like a place to really get started though, I was more meaning pages to start adding content to. > > Just looking briefly at the "Getting Started" page, I believe a few > > improvements could be made. It's overtone is very professional, which is > > intimidating. I also think things like Graphic User Interface and Window > > Manager should provide links to wikipedia so the user can learn more > > about the topic if they wish. Wikipedia is provided in the Free Content > > bookmarks folder in Fedora 7t4, so I don't think that would be an issue? > > I think the wiki is the wrong place to try and explain such things > > though. > > I used in some of my pages links to Wikipedia, so don't see a problem > with that. > Consider adding at the bottom of the page a "References" section and > list there links for further reading, but I don't think any term have to > be referenced, the Wiki is not for complete newbies (IMHO). I think it should be informative and accurate, but the language needn't be so textbook like... I don't know, that's just my own opinion, maybe others don't agree? > > Also, I don't see a way to upload images? There is a saying "a picture > > tells a thousand words", and I believe it's true. I don't even see a way > > to add images though? Screenshots (of a particular section of relevance > > on the desktop) would greatly clarify what things say, and provide an > > air of confidence for the user "I must be doing it right, it looks the > > same". I can see this on the sandbox page also, great link, thank you for pointing it out :)
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