It's a brasilian wikimedia chapter initiative<http://br.wikimedia.org/wiki/Sexta_po%C3%A9tica/en>intended to group several poets. Nowadays many poets from many cities around our country have joined this wonderful venue. Each week the admins (currently are four) choose a poem among those posted by any of participants. Feel free to join us, that would be great. Nevio
2010/7/26 B. M. Whealton <[email protected]> > That's nice. Your site is about poetry too. Where do you find your > poetry of the week? Is it from famous poets or poets in your community? > Bruce > > nevio carlos de alarcão wrote: > > 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 > >> > > > > > > > > > -- > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > 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
