A couple of wiki projects I've been working on.

[Jared Norris]

Good afternoon UBT & Docs,

I have recently been working on a couple of projects for my LoCo's
wiki [1] which I think have a fair bit of overlap for other teams so I
thought I could share them, sorry for cross posting but I thought they
were relevant to both teams. Before I start please realise I'm no guru
just wanted to pass on information as I learnt it, please feel free to
correct or suggestion improvements.

The first project I borrowed heavily from UBT was a team wiki header
and found a solution to an error that I want to help fix "upstream" in
UBT and possibly other teams with the same issue. This is best
described with screen shots as the error is in how different web
browsers render the same wiki page. If you look at [2] you will see
how it renders in firefox and if you look at [3] you will see how it
used to render in chromium (extra white space and square corners). I
found this out by mistake by accident but it bugged me more than just
a little so in my usual style I went in search of an answer. I ended
up in the #ubuntu-website channel and asked them about the issue. I
found someone who knew more than me about how all this is accomplished
by the nick of "Turl" (credit where it's due) who was able to get it
working for me. The best way to show the solution is the diff pages
[4] where you can see changes to remove the extra white space and then
[5] shows how to also fix up the borders. Apparently Opera and other
browers will render differently again so it would need other
alterations which I don't currently have.

The second project was a nuts and bolts wiki how to create/edit a page
[6]. The reason I started this was there were lots of wiki pages out
there with syntax examples, and how to do this and that but nothing
that I could find (and I hope I haven't re-invented the wheel) that
was really basic. I see this as a problem for people who are not
confident in using wiki pages (like I was, it took me a couple of
weeks to work up courage to go and edit something) and this hinders
some users ability to contribute to any and all projects that use
wikis. I realise the page itself and the "blank" page [7] I link to in
it would need small customisation for each team but it might be useful
to some other projects out there.

Sorry for all the links but I think it helps to have the full story.

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AustralianTeam
[2] http://www.flickr.com/photos/45015261@N04/5282457953/
[3] http://www.flickr.com/photos/45015261@N04/5282457709/
[4] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AustralianTeam/Includes/HeaderMain?action=diff&rev2=35&rev1=34
[5] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AustralianTeam/Includes/HeaderMain?action=diff&rev2=36&rev1=35
[6] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AustralianTeam/Projects/WikiHowTo
[7] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AustralianTeam/Projects/Blank

Regards,

Jared Norris
(aka head_victim)
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JaredNorris