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 :)