Help talk:Contents

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1 First version of Help:Contents
2 Second version of Help:Contents, this should be incorporated in it
3 Reorganizing the wiki (including linking to this Help page)
4 Notes for experienced users/admins
5 Test: adding SVG images
6 Adding images
7 Image that is link to another page in the wiki
8 Redirecting

[edit] First version of Help:Contents

To help us, you can do the following:

Register in this wiki, and start adding stuff.
Register in our forum and add posts.
Come to our meetings.
Spread the word about Linux and Unix.

Haha Thomas this is hilarious. People expect a page here telling them how we can help them and instead we tell them how they can help us. :-D — Laudaka 02:05, 31 January 2009 (CET)

[edit] Second version of Help:Contents, this should be incorporated in it

> Weet jij trouwens een goede referentie om meer te leren over wiki's ? Het gaat >me dan voornamelijk over de opmaak tekens die er zijn en dingen als een nieuwe >pagina aanmaken. Om daarna even te experimenteren wil ik proberen een wiki >pagina te maken over de taken binnen clubnix.

Als je zelf meehelpt aan Wikipedia dan is het het makkelijkst om de help pagina's daarvan te lezen, want we gebruiken dezelfde software namelijk de MediaWiki software (niet te verwarren met de Wikimedia Foundation de stichting die Wikipedia ondersteunt, zucht heel verwarrend dit).

Als je niet aan Wikipedia meehelpt dan ligt het het meest voor de hand om op de website van de MediaWiki software te kijken: http://www.mediawiki.org/ en daar voor "Users" kiezen. Vooral deze pagina daar is erg handig: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Formatting Nu kom ik er net achter dat de handleiding voor de MediaWiki software die daar staat helaas nog niet zo compleet is. Voor speciale karakters kun je het beste deze helppagina raadplegen van Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Edit#Character_formatting

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Templates

This comment should be somewhere in our Help (of the ClubNix wiki):

To edit the text of the template: scroll down to the bottom of the page right now and below "Templates used on this page" you will find the link to edit it. We use a wiki template for the meeting description so when the meeting is on the front page the text there is identical to the text here. Laudaka 18:27, 11 March 2009 (CET)

[edit] Reorganizing the wiki (including linking to this Help page)

Probably the Donations page should be removed from the "navigation" box at the left, so this page "Help:Contents" is a little less kind of hidden in that navigation box. (What's on the Donations page can be moved to the FAQ.)

Maybe this page should be called "Help:Contents" in the navigation box at the left or even better "ClubNix wiki Help". We should add a link to the e-mail newsletter in the navigation box, and a link to the ClubNix forum. (I checked and it is possible to add links external to the wiki in the navigation box or toolbox box.)

The "Random page" in the navigation box is completely useless for our wiki I believe, let's remove that one.

[edit] Notes for experienced users/admins

Anyone can export single pages from the wiki with Special:Export. Exporting all pages with Special:Export is a crude way to make a back-up of the essential information stored in the wiki.

The opposite of it Special:Import is only allowed for users with Sysop privileges. You could import exported pages of the ClubNix in your own wiki if you need to experiment.

For more information on this topic see the MediaWiki software website: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Backing_up_a_wiki — Laudaka

[edit] Test: adding SVG images

To upload an image you choose Upload file from the toolbox on the left. GIF and JPEG work fine, PNG isn't recognized as image.

And here is a test for SVG

Error creating thumbnail: /home/clubnix/mediawiki-1.10.0/bin/ulimit4.sh: line 4: convert: command not found

Okay I think we'll forget as well about SVG for the moment. — Laudaka

[edit] Adding images

Finding public domain clip art images: http://www.openclipart.org This a collection of clip art images created by volunteers.
Right now uploading images to the ClubNix Wiki is impossible because of some configuration error. You can use http://www.imageshack.us/ in the mean time.