huh. interesting. But I think it's too bad that users (non-technical and
otherwise) need so much hand-holding when it come to software.
With a DVD player (or a car or house), a user will press the button or flip
a switch to learn what a thing does. With software, and tools like
MediaWiki, there is this underlying fear of "breaking it", so a user won't
play in the sandbox. It's too bad.
Evelyn
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Evelyn Yoder
Technical Communications
http://appswhisperer.com
On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 4:29 PM, Clayton <ccornell(a)openoffice.org> wrote:
Evelyn Yoder wrote:
Hi -
I noticed that you took the time to build a page to describe the
extensions
you installed, but you might be interested to
know that MW includes such
a
Yes, I'm aware of that, but, we have one or two custom extensions, some
extensions (at least in the past) only show up on the Versions page as
hooks, functions or tags, and some extensions need custom local
documentation (I've made mods to some that in some cases I still need to
document). I also link to the external documentation directly where I
can where the Versions page links to the main Extension page - this was
not really helping some of our less technically savvy users who just
wanted to know how to use the extension... not how to install it. :-)
C.
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Clayton Cornell ccornell(a)openoffice.org
OpenOffice.org Documentation Project co-lead
Sun Microsystems, Hamburg, Germany
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