December 2007 - openSUSE Wiki - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-wiki] clicky - ki - yay when editing a page ?
by Susanne Oberhauser 15 Jan '08

15 Jan '08

Hi, possibly an FAQ, do we have any plans to improve the login sequence when editing a page? When you are not logged in and you request to edit a page, the wiki detects you are not logged in and asks you to log in. Then you have to click to 'log in', actually do the log in (possibly type, for sure click), then click on 'return to page...' and then click on the edit link again. http://en.opensuse.org/index.php?title=sometitle&action=edit It seems doable to reduce that to just one additional click: http://developer.novell.com/wiki/index.php?title=GombleFrobbleNew&action=ed… Can we possibly get the same in our wikis? S. -- Susanne Oberhauser +49-911-74053-574 SUSE -- a Novell Business Partner Engineering Maxfeldstraße 5 developer.novell.com 90409 Nürnberg SUSE LINUX GmbH, GF: Volker Smid, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-wiki+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-wiki+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-wiki] Change at cn.opensuse.org
by Charles Li 22 Dec '07

22 Dec '07

Hi, Now http://cn.opensuse.org/ is the Simplified Chinese version of http://en.opensuse.org/, a lot of volunteers and fans of OpenSUSE translated many of pages. But there are a lot of problem: a) Quality One word could be translate several different Chinese character by different people. And when someone translated one page, no others revise it. b) Updating When the pages in English updated, we couldn't follow it. And it's also hard to find what page in Chinese is correspond with the page in English. And I've translated some pages in Ubuntu, I found it's very good. There are a standard procedure for translating, that include how to participate to translate, translating standard, and award for translating, such as if you translate one page they would open a blog for you. So I have an idea for translating OpenSUSE * Add a translate plan in Welcome page, deleting the indexed plan. * Add a translate rocedure page, Require-> Translate -> Revision. * Add a WaitforTranslating category, port article from English pages in en.opensuse.org. * Add a WaitforRevising category, so than some and easier to find what pages need to be revised. * Add Translating Standard page. * Add wiki basic syntax page, it's for beginners. * Add an translating team page. And I've changed some of these, you can view from http://cn.opensuse.org/ -- Sincerely Yours, Charles Li --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-wiki+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-wiki+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-wiki] Calendar
by Gabriel . 20 Dec '07

20 Dec '07

Hi, I need to know how to add a calendar like the one in http://news.opensuse.org/ in a wiki page, it is possible? -- Kind Regards Visitá/Go to >> http://www.opensuse.org N��r��y隊Z)z{.��"�/��˛��m�)z{.��+�Z+i�b�*'jW(�f�vǦj)h��ǰ�H��i��

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[opensuse-wiki] Email notifications of openSUSE wiki changes
by Rajko M. 15 Dec '07

15 Dec '07

Do you find anything strange in this message: "the openSUSE page SDB:History has been changed on 08:12, 13 декабря 2007 by Capt12, see http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:History for the current version." I have no idea how this email got "декабря", while other are "December" or "dec". -- Regards, Rajko --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-wiki+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-wiki+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-wiki] wiki translation helpers
by jdd 07 Dec '07

07 Dec '07

Hello :-) there are three main goals when somebody wants to translate the english wiki in an other langage: *first translation of as many pages as possible *be warned of the new pages *update any already translated modified page We need some sort of help to do so. -first an "untranslated pages" special page on the english wiki. This page should compare the page names on the english wiki and the page of the *same name* on any localized wiki (on demand) and list the pages that don't match. Seems easy to do (don't need to be realtime). Remember, any localized wiki should first have a page with the very same title than the english one with a redirection to the translated title page. This page would be enough to cope for the two first cases listed first -second there should be some sort of script (server side) rising some sort of flag on the localized page when the timestamp of the english page is younger than the localized one. I would vote for a yellow exclamation mark written in the localized (making it also appear in the recent changes special page) is it possible to have such tools (or similar)? thanks jdd -- http://www.dodin.net --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-wiki+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-wiki+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-wiki] We need consent how to write articles
by Rajko M. 03 Dec '07

03 Dec '07

We can't expect that every potential wiki contributor goes trough training to be able to write articles, but we need consistent style guide. 1. openSUSE Style Guide This is important for wiki maintainers, so that they all can act in the same way. The article http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Style_Guide was written when wiki had few contributors, now it should be rewritten. The guide should be modular, ie. main article that will give basic instructions that are easy to follow and list topic details for editors on other pages. I would base guide on Wikipedia experience as much as possible. 1-1. Article title length, form and capitalization. Some examples of very long titles and titles with different style for the same purpose can be found on http://en.opensuse.org/Portal/All 1-2. Use of subpages With single benefit that we have bread crumbs to go back, titles are getting out of control. Title became information container about all topics discussed. That doesn't help to find a page, one has to provide index anyway. 2. This also brings another question that was presented before about new namespaces like: Bugs: For what it is already used title form "Bugs: ..." Applications: For applications reviews. Software: as alternative to Applications with wider use Development: For all development related articles. KDE: GNOME: X: HCL: Usability: Translation: Education: -- Regards, Rajko. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-wiki+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-wiki+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-wiki] search engines, indexes and sdb
by jdd 03 Dec '07

03 Dec '07

I wonder if there is not a problem with the wiki search. Trying to manage the infos about wifi/wlan, I notes that searching for "wifi" or "wlan" doesn't return most of the relevant pages one can find through categories this is not only true for new pages (what can be only a delay problem), but also for older ones. Specially it seems than SDB pages are nearly not indexed, neither by google. For example I noted at least three nearly identical pages about ndiswrapper, but none was so easy to find is this a general problem? no robot.txt forgotten somewhere??? jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://www.ladepeche.fr/article/2007/10/27/127022-Claire-Dodin-une-Toulousa… --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-wiki+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-wiki+help(a)opensuse.org

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