[Mediawiki-l] Registration by Admin

[nevio carlos de alarcão]

That´s a poetry dedicated wiki I admin: http://sextapoetica.com.br
Regards, Nevio

2010/7/25 B. M. Whealton <bwhealton at futurewavedesigns.com>

> What did you mean by switching your skins to Vector?  I see a few skins
> that came with mediawiki.
>
> On many other sites you might have a Table of Contents or menu system to
> show people what kind of content exists.  Being somewhat new to wikis it
> did strike me that I do need some way to show people what we have here
> on the wiki...  some people on this list must have an external wiki they
> can share... what would you do to give people an idea as to what content
> exists?  I guess one could start by showing something in the way of the
> most recent edits, or new pages.  I'm having a little bit of a hard time
> with this, I don't know why.  My natural inclination is to present
> everything through menus, making it easy to find everything.  How do
> people make the contents of a wiki easy to find.  When you are first
> starting a wiki, you won't expect your users to search for articles
> because they'd have no expectation of expecting that much to exist on
> the site.
>  I did find a list of sites in English that use mediawiki but sometimes
> suggestions are better, from personal experience... how did you get your
> wiki to take off from the ground floor when you just start?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Bruce
>
> David Gerard wrote:
> > On 26 July 2010 01:53, B. M. Whealton <bwhealton at futurewavedesigns.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >>       Is it possible for an admin to setup an account for someone in
> >> advance?
> >
> >
> > It can be a bit laborious generating accounts one at a time by hand,
> > but I've done it. Do you mean some sort of special: page for
> > generating accounts? I don't think there is one.
> >
> >
> >>        Also, what would be a good way to setup a front page for people
> >> when they first come to a site?  One wants to have a front page that
> >> explains things.  Is that just called Main Page?  And a simple cheat
> >> sheet, quick start guide would be good.  I don't want to overwhelm
> >> people with a large document that they must read before getting
> >> started... well that defeats the purpose of wiki, which means fast.
> >>       Can I see examples of how some of you have done your wikis?  What
> >> are some good pages that would be desirable to have when starting off
> >> with a new wiki?
> >
> >
> > My use case is intranet wikis, so I can't show you examples.
> >
> > I tend to keep it called "Main Page" because that's what it's called
> > on Wikipedia, which people are used to. (I'll also have to start
> > switching new wikis' skins to Vector so they look like the familiar
> > Wikipedia ;-)
> >
> > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Editing is always good to link,
> > e.g. as "Quick guide to editing wikitext."
> >
> > Useful links to internal stuff. A few created pages for them to look
> > at. Exhorting them to write stuff. Setting up Extension:InputBox to
> > create a page for them has been helpful for my wikis.
> >
> >
> > - d.
> >
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