What did you mean by switching your skins to Vector? I see a few skins that came with mediawiki.
On many other sites you might have a Table of Contents or menu system to show people what kind of content exists. Being somewhat new to wikis it did strike me that I do need some way to show people what we have here on the wiki... some people on this list must have an external wiki they can share... what would you do to give people an idea as to what content exists? I guess one could start by showing something in the way of the most recent edits, or new pages. I'm having a little bit of a hard time with this, I don't know why. My natural inclination is to present everything through menus, making it easy to find everything. How do people make the contents of a wiki easy to find. When you are first starting a wiki, you won't expect your users to search for articles because they'd have no expectation of expecting that much to exist on the site. I did find a list of sites in English that use mediawiki but sometimes suggestions are better, from personal experience... how did you get your wiki to take off from the ground floor when you just start? Thanks, Bruce David Gerard wrote: > On 26 July 2010 01:53, B. M. Whealton <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Is it possible for an admin to setup an account for someone in >> advance? > > > It can be a bit laborious generating accounts one at a time by hand, > but I've done it. Do you mean some sort of special: page for > generating accounts? I don't think there is one. > > >> Also, what would be a good way to setup a front page for people >> when they first come to a site? One wants to have a front page that >> explains things. Is that just called Main Page? And a simple cheat >> sheet, quick start guide would be good. I don't want to overwhelm >> people with a large document that they must read before getting >> started... well that defeats the purpose of wiki, which means fast. >> Can I see examples of how some of you have done your wikis? What >> are some good pages that would be desirable to have when starting off >> with a new wiki? > > > My use case is intranet wikis, so I can't show you examples. > > I tend to keep it called "Main Page" because that's what it's called > on Wikipedia, which people are used to. (I'll also have to start > switching new wikis' skins to Vector so they look like the familiar > Wikipedia ;-) > > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Editing is always good to link, > e.g. as "Quick guide to editing wikitext." > > Useful links to internal stuff. A few created pages for them to look > at. Exhorting them to write stuff. Setting up Extension:InputBox to > create a page for them has been helpful for my wikis. > > > - d. > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l -- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ B. M. Whealton - Web Developer, Programmer, Owner: Future Wave Designs: http://FutureWaveDesigns.com "On Being a Poet and Other Existential Ideas":> http://WordSaladPoetryMagazine.com/words/ Publisher of Word Salad Poetry Magazine: http://WordSaladPoetryMagazine.com/ - Submit your poetry ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
