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categories at the top and straighting up
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Thank you for the tip Robin! - Need to write something up about that function. [[TalkPagesForWikiPeople]] - best, mark | Thank you for the tip Robin! - Need to write something up about that function. [[TalkPagesForWikiPeople]] - best, mark | ||
== | == Testing Notification for Message on Talk Page == | ||
Does it work? did you get the notification? [[User:Tedernst|Tedernst]] 16:35, 18 Jan 2006 (EST) | Does it work? did you get the notification? [[User:Tedernst|Tedernst]] 16:35, 18 Jan 2006 (EST) | ||
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And you can welcome Tristan by editing the talk page (not the user page directly), which is considered fine etiquete at mediawikis, as far as I know. [[User:Tedernst|Tedernst]] 16:49, 18 Jan 2006 (EST) | And you can welcome Tristan by editing the talk page (not the user page directly), which is considered fine etiquete at mediawikis, as far as I know. [[User:Tedernst|Tedernst]] 16:49, 18 Jan 2006 (EST) | ||
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:::The purpose of moving pages with the move function is to keep the edit history for attributing the page authors. The licence of WikiIndex also requires to attribute the author properly, so the move function is still important. [[User:Tristram Shandy|Tristram Shandy]] | :::The purpose of moving pages with the move function is to keep the edit history for attributing the page authors. The licence of WikiIndex also requires to attribute the author properly, so the move function is still important. [[User:Tristram Shandy|Tristram Shandy]] | ||
== | == Link to yourself automatically using tildas == | ||
Just sign your contributions with 4 tildes <nowiki>"~~~~"</nowiki> and you won't need to remember how to link to yourself. [[User:TedErnst|TedErnst]] 17:13, 18 Jan 2006 (EST) | Just sign your contributions with 4 tildes <nowiki>"~~~~"</nowiki> and you won't need to remember how to link to yourself. [[User:TedErnst|TedErnst]] 17:13, 18 Jan 2006 (EST) | ||
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It is cleaner to have the name of [[Wiki People]] have article pages. Thanks for the tild example Tristram! [[User:MarkDilley|MarkDilley]] | It is cleaner to have the name of [[Wiki People]] have article pages. Thanks for the tild example Tristram! [[User:MarkDilley|MarkDilley]] | ||
== | == Category Sorting == | ||
<nowiki>[[Category:Wiki People|Tristram Shandy]]</nowiki> | <nowiki>[[Category:Wiki People|Tristram Shandy]]</nowiki> | ||
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<nowiki>[[Category:Wiki People|Dilley, Mark]]</nowiki> | <nowiki>[[Category:Wiki People|Dilley, Mark]]</nowiki> | ||
== | == Categoriess at the top? == | ||
Why? [[User:TedErnst|TedErnst]] | Why? [[User:TedErnst|TedErnst]] | ||
: It is a standard that ICANN wiki used, that we all liked, and the added bonus is that the categories sort before the template categories, giving the first ones more relevance with a folksonomy. | |||
Okay, Hopefully I won't hate it too much. [[User:TedErnst|TedErnst]] | |||
: | :You wrote: "also, the standard we are trying to set is categories at the top of the page." They recommend the opposite in Wikipedia because the newbies may get confused when they see odd-looking category descriptions instead of normal text, when they start to edit a page. There used to be problems with search engines, they showed categories before the normal text in their page summaries. However, I don't know if the search engine problem is occuring any more. [[User:Tristram Shandy|Tristram Shandy]] | ||
: | Personally, I think that is not a problem with this wiki for three reasons: | ||
* The wiki is for other wikis, so one assumes that other contributors are not newbies. | |||
* If we do get a newbie checking out the inside, the data is structured and I think they would be able to figure it out quickly. | |||
* I think categorys in wiki are pretty valuable and exciting things to start to be able to understand, so it is kinda cool to have them smack dab in the front. My 2 cents. :-) [[User:MarkDilley|MarkDilley]] | |||