1. euwiki editing
Hi
Just revisited euwiki, and (see previous post) wnted to put a link on
http://euwiki.ayo.biz/Category:Useful_code_snippets
to
http://euwiki.ayo.biz/Text_mode
and ensure it fits in with the other snippet titles.
How?
I'm not a beginner, but this has me flummoxed. Since EuWiki is open to anyone
who wants to edit it, would anyone else also think that the complexity of using
this would be a barrier to participation. Or perhaps I'm just on stupid day.
Chris
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2. Re: euwiki editing
Chris Burch wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> Just revisited euwiki, and (see previous post) wnted to put a link on
>
> <a target=_top
> href="http://euwiki.ayo.biz/Category:Useful_code_snippets">http://euwiki.ayo.biz/Category:Useful_code_snippets</a>
>
> to
>
> <a target=_top
> href="http://euwiki.ayo.biz/Text_mode">http://euwiki.ayo.biz/Text_mode</a>
>
> and ensure it fits in with the other snippet titles.
One needs to add the following line (anywhere) to any article that is to be
automatically added to the category named "Useful code snippets".
[[Category:Useful code snippets]]
Note that I've just done this to the article "Text mode".
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Derek Parnell
Melbourne, Australia
Skype name: derek.j.parnell
3. Re: euwiki editing
Chris Burch wrote:
<snip>
As you no doubt know, Derek has kindly fixed that link for you.
> I'm not a beginner, but this has me flummoxed.
Ditto.
> would anyone else also think that the complexity of using
> this would be a barrier to participation.
Well, yes and no. No because it is pretty trivial to add
poorly-formatted-not-really-what-you-intended, Yes because you feel such a
goofball doing it.
I suppose I ought to reluctantly admit that, not being a regular wiki user, it
took far too long to "get" the plain fact that "article", "discussion", "edit",
"+", and "history" tabs at the top are actually something useful..
On the plus side there is a fairly decent help system up and running (see
navigation/Help top left), but it did not appear to cover the bit I was after
(see below). Also, on an active wiki, regulars will probably fixup your typos and
formatting guffs for you anyway. Oh, and <eucode> works pretty good.
>
>Or perhaps I'm just on stupid day.
Ditto 
I also wanted to ask how or why does the bit on
http://euwiki.ayo.biz/Talk:Negative_Indexes just after "Consider these two
fragments" be nicely boxed and pretty. I tried the same later on ("You should
study this fragment from be_execute.c") and it just would not behave the same,
but apparently Derek did something to it and now it does, but I cannot see what.
A blank line above and below, and leading spaces on each line, was not enough.
Confused,
Pete
4. Re: euwiki editing
Pete Lomax wrote:
> nicely boxed and pretty.
The 'trick' to get code in a mono-spaced box is to make sure the first character
on each line to go into the box is a space (not TAB).
The starting point for help on editing Wiki articles can be found at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Editing
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Derek Parnell
Melbourne, Australia
Skype name: derek.j.parnell
