This isn't the answer you're looking for, but
here's what worked at my
organization. When we rolled out MediaWiki, the big message to the team
was:
"Just type."
Put blank lines between your paragraphs and click Save.
That's it.
That`s exactly my current approach :)
'Keep it simple, don`t try to overformat things, be willing to delete a 100lines ones
they get inaccurate or obsolete.'
And if you WANT to do formatting, here's a
cheatsheet. But don't let
that stand in the way of documenting what you know.
And we also have that one :)
Then we have a few motivated people who scurry around
improving the
formatting on other people's pages as they run across them.
ok, there we currently have only just ONE, but we`re working on it :)
It worked out well, even with the WYSIWYG die-hards.
It works here - but only with the pure technical staff (and even some of those guys are
quite hard to change).
The bad things are:
- users without basic wikicode expirience see wikicode mingled with content (inline links,
formatting etc) and their initial reaction is 'i cannot read that - it`s too
complicated', which is - although a purely psychological problem - a major factor with
my users: 'if it does not behave like M$ Word, i cannot use it'. (Imagine a
'normal user' opening a page containing tables in edit-mode... ok, i`ve banned the
use of tables, but even the little things like '===' or '*' come quite
hard to most of them.
- lacking ability to abstract content from design and/or the will to do so or to even
try.
So i`m looking for a way to 'lower the bar'.
DanB
nevertheless: thanks :)
dwe