Wiki Instructions / How to ??

[spend]

I really don't fancy having to correct all the multiple update errors. Is there a common idiots guide to using the Wikis somewhere. If not there should be a Wiki for wikis to linky to

[im]

spend said:

...a Wiki for wikis to linky to

[PetrolTed]

I think part of the problem is that the (my) design doesn't encourage the creation of multipe small interlinking wikis. There's a means of linking between pages, but it's not used much so we end up with monolithic Wikis.

[spend]

Thats fine Ted, but shouldn't we have some kind of user guide explaining how to cut & paste from the history to recover these situations, as well as warnings that keeping a pending update on screen is likely to overwrite some poor (faster typing) sods work I'd expect there are additional gotchas that I have not foreseen...

I was really asking/proposing if we should start some guidelines for this, and keep them in one place so that only a link in each wiki is needed to refer to them (much like the formatting help, smilies and RulesofPosting linky's).

[PetrolTed]

That's the problem really. The history function doesn't give the formatting code so reinstating a cocked up Wiki is difficult unless you get a moderator to roll it back.

[PetrolTed]

P.S. There is a locking process in place to prevent overwrites.

[Silent1]

PetrolTed said:

That's the problem really. The history function doesn't give the formatting code so reinstating a cocked up Wiki is difficult unless you get a moderator to roll it back.

It's actually not that bad, you just change the quote syntax to the # of the older wiki version and then copy + paste back into the wiki.

But then i'm guessing that's an unintentional feature, but it works pretty well without letting every tom dick + harry do it.

[Mr Will]

Silent1 said:

PetrolTed said:

That's the problem really. The history function doesn't give the formatting code so reinstating a cocked up Wiki is difficult unless you get a moderator to roll it back.

It's actually not that bad, you just change the quote syntax to the # of the older wiki version and then copy + paste back into the wiki.

But then i'm guessing that's an unintentional feature, but it works pretty well without letting every tom dick + harry do it.

You've gone and told them all now!

Actually I didn't realise that it did that, i'll have to give it a try and make sure it doesn't cause any problems!

[spend]

It would still be nice to be able to say 'RTFM'?

[Silent1]

Mr Will said:

Silent1 said:

PetrolTed said:

That's the problem really. The history function doesn't give the formatting code so reinstating a cocked up Wiki is difficult unless you get a moderator to roll it back.

It's actually not that bad, you just change the quote syntax to the # of the older wiki version and then copy + paste back into the wiki.

But then i'm guessing that's an unintentional feature, but it works pretty well without letting every tom dick + harry do it.

You've gone and told them all now!

Actually I didn't realise that it did that, i'll have to give it a try and make sure it doesn't cause any problems!

Hasn't broken it before