Hello, may I interrupt with one last inquiry. I'm seeing that is list is geared for the more advanced wiki user -- clearly the wrong place for the newbe -- so I'll unsubscribe soon after receiving responses to this missive. With that noted, could someone in the community/forum please point me to a good written guide on learning to use mediawiki from a beginner's stand point? Thanks in advance! -- RF
PS, I'm a highly-motivated self-learner, so I won't be wasting your time, and I have good experience teaching myself to use complicated software.
PSS, encouraging newbees from outside the circumscribed field of current MediaWiki users (and Mediawiki-l members) might be beneficial, in the sense that you would bring new problem-solvers into the fold, perhaps spawning some creative solutions not otherwise fielded. I hypothesize that within a short time-frame, the quality of the additional voices would exceed the (initial) noise we would bring to the forum.
Richard Freeman wrote:
point me to a good written guide on learning to use mediawiki from a beginner's stand point? Thanks in advance! -- RF
mediawiki help file (online, search through the mediawiki link on the bottom of the page) is quite nice jdd
On Sun, 07 Jan 2007 11:54:03 -0700 Richard Freeman rfbree@montana.com wrote:
Hello, may I interrupt with one last inquiry. I'm seeing that is list is geared for the more advanced wiki user -- clearly the wrong place for the newbe -- so I'll unsubscribe soon after receiving responses to this missive. With that noted, could someone in the community/forum please point me to a good written guide on learning to use mediawiki from a beginner's stand point? Thanks in advance! -- RF
PS, I'm a highly-motivated self-learner, so I won't be wasting your time, and I have good experience teaching myself to use complicated software.
PSS, encouraging newbees from outside the circumscribed field of current MediaWiki users (and Mediawiki-l members) might be beneficial, in the sense that you would bring new problem-solvers into the fold, perhaps spawning some creative solutions not otherwise fielded. I hypothesize that within a short time-frame, the quality of the additional voices would exceed the (initial) noise we would bring to the forum.
-- Dr. Richard Freeman
I think that we've all had to begin at the beginning. I know that I did. I also asked some very newbie questions in the beginning, and compared to other questions here, I still may. Don't let the "more advanced" questions some are asking put you off. Otherwise I may not be able to help anyone myself.
My suggestion is to do your reading and then ask your newbie questions here.
On 07/01/07, Raquel raquel@thericehouse.net wrote:
I think that we've all had to begin at the beginning. I know that I did. I also asked some very newbie questions in the beginning, and compared to other questions here, I still may. Don't let the "more advanced" questions some are asking put you off. Otherwise I may not be able to help anyone myself.
My suggestion is to do your reading and then ask your newbie questions here.
I agree with this completely; this list is for all third party users of MediaWiki; new and old alike.
Rob Church
Yeah, finding info for beginners is hard. Don't be discouraged and ask your newbie questions here as needed. Plenty of people here would jump at the chance to answer questions especially easy questions. As far as sources for help, I always start with:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Installation http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Contents or search http://meta.wikimedia.org or search google with the word mediawiki and your topic (don't use wiki, as that will just return a million results) Ask questions here And heck if there is no where for newbies to get help, maybe you should make wiki site for newbies to wikimedia?
On 1/7/07, Rob Church robchur@gmail.com wrote:
On 07/01/07, Raquel raquel@thericehouse.net wrote:
I think that we've all had to begin at the beginning. I know that I did. I also asked some very newbie questions in the beginning, and compared to other questions here, I still may. Don't let the "more advanced" questions some are asking put you off. Otherwise I may not be able to help anyone myself.
My suggestion is to do your reading and then ask your newbie questions here.
I agree with this completely; this list is for all third party users of MediaWiki; new and old alike.
Rob Church
MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
Hmm, either I'm doing something wrong, or people just don't want to help me, though. Maybe it's because I got off on the wrong foot in here.. My bad folks! All apologizes!!
-- spencerp http://spencerp.net
Yeah, finding info for beginners is hard. Don't be discouraged and ask your newbie questions here as needed. Plenty of people here would jump at the chance to answer questions especially easy questions. As far as sources for help, I always start with:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Installation http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Contents or search http://meta.wikimedia.org or search google with the word mediawiki and your topic (don't use wiki, as that will just return a million results) Ask questions here And heck if there is no where for newbies to get help, maybe you should make wiki site for newbies to wikimedia?
On 1/7/07, Rob Church robchur@gmail.com wrote:
On 07/01/07, Raquel raquel@thericehouse.net wrote:
I think that we've all had to begin at the beginning. I know that I did. I also asked some very newbie questions in the beginning, and compared to other questions here, I still may. Don't let the "more advanced" questions some are asking put you off. Otherwise I may not be able to help anyone myself.
My suggestion is to do your reading and then ask your newbie questions here.
I agree with this completely; this list is for all third party users of MediaWiki; new and old alike.
Rob Church
MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
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