DenverD wrote:
i tried to understand all the mumbo-jumbo about templates, portals, namespaces and and and and.....and finally figured out that those things don't interest me in the least..
just to mumble some more: i ran into Frank Sundermeyer's just posted "Namespaces for the wiki.o.o" and tried (really did) to figure out what the frick...even spent some time reading http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Namespace (until my nose hit my keyboard in a hail of zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzs) and realized we need two DIFFERENT sets of guide lines: one for the wordsmiths/editors/proofreaders/whatevers (normally called a 'style guide') and one for the folks that take the words/articles and *format* them to give that pleasing "it all hangs together" look.. count me in the former category...then i can look at words in today's wiki without joining a team *or* understanding the marching orders to be given sunday evening by the wiki skeleton builders, i think...(or, are they gonna tell me some new information about capitalization, redundancy, unnecessary remarks/comments, grammar and etc?) and, to do that i never need to understand Frank's concern about namespaces, portals and other 'programmer talk'.. let me say that a different way: if it is a requirement that i understand Frank's note or the pages he references, count me out! on the other hand, if i originate a new article i promise i will do it in OpenOffice writer (or more likely a plain text editor) and 'hand' it to a wiki markup language smart geek to format and partition as needed to make hang real pretty on the bones... ok? question: will there be an enduring team who can and will take a coherent, well written/structured and needed article consisting of WORDS and add the wiki markup? DenverD -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-wiki+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-wiki+help@opensuse.org