That´s a poetry dedicated wiki I admin: http://sextapoetica.com.br Regards, Nevio
2010/7/25 B. M. Whealton <[email protected]> > 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 > -- {+}Nevinho Venha para o Movimento Colaborativo http://sextapoetica.com.br !! _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
