February 2006 - openSUSE Wiki - openSUSE Mailing Lists

base syntax for articles
by jdd 09 Feb '06

09 Feb '06

Translating the present pages, I noted some remarks. Please, see this only as discussion notes. If you agree with them (after editing them as much as you want) it could be a good idea to make a wiki page. I don't really know of the english/us habits, but I was for a long time a french author and editor (books, may be the olders of you remember the HP-41 days - I had books translateds in english and edited in USA, also in Netherland) and periodics. Of course there are many times where rules must _not_ be followed, but to do this, we needs rules :-))) jdd small remarks on the subject of article writing and section handling. It's a good practice (anywhere, not only in the wiki) * to don't make unnecessary cascading subsections. just an example, the toc here http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Howto has a "2 Procedures" section with 3 more levels sub-sections and many of them before reaching the "3 Links". It should probably be better to move up one level the 2.4 SDB tags. it's not always easy to do, however :-), but usually we should use only "==" and "===" * when sub-sections are used, one sub-section title must follow immediately the section title, with almost no text between them. again only as an example: http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Howto#Syntax There should be a sub-section after Syntax, for example "==== Basics ====" this is specially important with the way mediawiki opens the editor window, to have just openned the relevant part. Usually, if there is a real need for more than two levels, it's best to open a new page (the table of content should not be more than a page hight :-) -- http://www.dodin.net http://dodin.org/galerie_photo_web/expo/index.html http://lucien.dodin.net http://fr.susewiki.org/index.php?title=Gérer_ses_photos

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spell checking
by jdd 09 Feb '06

09 Feb '06

I don't really know how nor why, but if a spellchecker is enabled on the wiki server, the edit wiki windows do colorize the mispelled words and this is very handy. could this be setup for us (in any langage used)? in fact I have this on some of my mediawikis, but not all and I don't really know why :-( thanks jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://dodin.org/galerie_photo_web/expo/index.html http://lucien.dodin.net http://fr.susewiki.org/index.php?title=Gérer_ses_photos

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Richard Bonadies/Hartford/IBM is out of the office.
by Richard Bonadies 09 Feb '06

09 Feb '06

I will be out of the office starting 02/09/2006 and will not return until 02/11/2006. I am traveling to client locations and will have limited access to email. I will respond to your message at my first opportunity. If you require immediate attention please contact your Sales Specialist, or contact me by phone.

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Howto translate spanish
by manel 09 Feb '06

09 Feb '06

Hi friends I want to translate the Web http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Howto#Translations but not this created in Spanish. I believe that I do not have permissions to create it. To webmaster you can create it with the name of: Cómo publicar Thanks manel www.susemania.org www.badopi.org (Blog)

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SDB:Howto
by jdd 08 Feb '06

08 Feb '06

in the SDB Howto that I'm translating in french, http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Howto in the "categories" article, there is a link to: http://en.opensuse.org/index.php/Category:SDB but this page don't seems to exists. I replaced the link by [[Special:Categories]] (french version only) which seems more relevant. jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://dodin.org/galerie_photo_web/expo/index.html http://lucien.dodin.net http://fr.susewiki.org/index.php?title=Gérer_ses_photos

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Purpose of our Wiki and copying of Wikipedia.
by Peter Flodin 06 Feb '06

06 Feb '06

I would like to discuss the copying of Wikipedia articles and the larger purpose of our wiki. First I don't see any point in copying articles from Wikipedia: 1. I believe it is a breach of the GFDL as the current openSUSE site terms are not currently GFDL compatible. 2. Any article copied is doomed to become out of date, with any update of wikipedia. 3. It is easy to directly link to Wikipedia with an interwiki link eg [[Wikipedia:Interwiki_link]] will link to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interwiki_link I think our Wiki "mission statement" should be that our wiki should only contain information in relation to SUSE Linux or openSUSE project. If we have a page on KDE it should be a brief description and about KDE on SUSE not a history or great detail of KDE, as this is unmaintainable in the longterm, but it should link to the KDE project homepage and the Wikipedia page for KDE, for the indepth detail, that is not relevant to SUSE. This of course, does not only apply to material sourced from Wikipedia. If there are no objections I will update our Style Guide, to reflect this view. http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Style_Guide Peter 'Pflodo' Flodin.

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Deletion and Missing Pages.
by Rajko M 05 Feb '06

05 Feb '06

Please look at http://en.opensuse.org/Category:Pages_to_delete The Templates page is marked for deletion. Is this mistake or just not so perfect script that picked up all pages with Deletion template, including template itself :-) http://en.opensuse.org/Special:Wantedpages 1. OpenSUSE:Browse (17 links) is listed as missing, but it is present and in good shape. -- Regards, Rajko.

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External image embedding is now turned off.
by Peter Flodin 04 Feb '06

04 Feb '06

Since the upgrade external image embedding is turned off on the wiki. Unless this was deliberate, could we turn this back on. As an example see http://en.opensuse.org/LizardPictures With the current setting, you can see a link to a .jpg, with the embedding turned on, you would have seen the image. Peter 'Pflodo' Flodin

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Releases Table
by jdd 03 Feb '06

03 Feb '06

I'm working on a french version of the Releases table. I will add a link to the en:download page for the ones that want to be uptodate right at the minute :-) doing this, I noticed that for the OSS version, only downloading is quoted. in France, many news papers have CD/DVD with SUSE Linux, so couldn't we add this "Journaux" (I'm not sure of the english word) I'll wait for the english part to modify anything on the french one. jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://dodin.org/galerie_photo_web/expo/index.html http://lucien.dodin.net http://fr.susewiki.org/index.php?title=G%C3%A9rer_ses_photos

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Wiki translations
by Hugo Costelha 02 Feb '06

02 Feb '06

In the wiki I get "Revisão atual" when I using portuguese. It should be "Revisão actual". Cheers. Hugo Costelha

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