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

[Phill Whiteside]

Zach,

I feel a classroom session coming along....

Jared has done an excellent job. As he is UTC+10 maybe you would like to
incorporate his notes into part of the Ubuntu Beginners Day that is coming
up? I would do so, but am a bit busy liasing with Michael about the
accessibility part of tenach's php classroom.

Regards,

Phill.

On 8 January 2011 04:15, Zach Kriesse <zkriesse at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> On 1/7/2011 9:12 PM, Jared Norris wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
>>  Extremely find job Jared...job well done!
>
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