Regards, Nevio
2010/7/25 B. M. Whealton <bwhealton(a)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(a)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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