Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-wiki (137 mails)

["Rajko M." <rmatov101@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 17 October 2009 00:33:09 Shayon wrote:

> Well i suppose there is hardly any need of templates to get to know the
> basic editing ideas in wiki(openSUSE) :).

Basics not, but to ensure unified look and feel, and give authors more time to 
write about actual topic of their article, instead of reading instructions, 
applying rules, looking at other pages as template, the set of templates (not 
in wiki sense, as inserts in other articles) is actually not needed, but 
required. 

> Initially when i started with
> editing i was = to a beginner or less that.The best thing which i can
> share with you is -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_edit .This can
> give a little hint or a brief idea on how to get started.And when you
> are almost thorough  just keep on surfing the wiki -
> (http://en.opensuse.org/Special:Allpages) for minor faults and try to
> rectify them.And as the time advances you'll slowly and steadily get to
> know the things around :)

There is difference in will to invest time in formatting experiments between 
you focused on the wiki alone, and one that is skilled in his field and just 
wants to put article on the wiki with as little side effort as possible. Such 
person will use  template provided that it exists and its existence is well 
advertised. Otherwise it may happen that he just walk away instead to write 
something that our users need.  

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Regards, Rajko

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