LQWiki:Screen -x

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Fennec 23:16, Mar 5, 2004 (EST)

Hello everybody

I'm new to wiki, but hopefully I won't mess up everything =)
Streg 23:18, Mar 5, 2004 (EST)

• Nice to see someone else using this thing. Wow. =) Glad to have you with us.
  To learn thinks like Wiki syntax and other useful guidelines, I reccomend the Wikipedia Style and How-To Directory, until something similar is established here. - Fennec 23:25, Mar 5, 2004 (EST)
  • I'm glad to be here, this linux community needs something like this, rather than the hours on googling I've had to experiment ;).
    Btw. thanks for the info, I'll give that guide a look. - Streg 23:30, Mar 5, 2004 (EST)
    • As indicated below, we apparently have some structure already in place for this sort of stuff... which I consider incredibly hard to find. - Fennec 01:20, Mar 6, 2004 (EST)

Existing structure

Several people have put a lot of time and effort into things like this and other pages accessible via Help. And we've come up with simple customs for handling talk pages. I appreciate that you are involved in another wiki and your contributions here are greatly appreciated, but please learn this site and make contributions in that context.

Digiot 23:42, Mar 5, 2004 (EST)

• Sounds good. Still... 'Help' is rather hard to find (an obscure link in the upper right, not anywhere near the convenient sidebar, et cetera). The Welcome, New Users page doesn't mention it either, and neither does getting started/plunging ahead. Furthermore, the Editing help link does not bring any mention of that site, and I still don't see a generic user talk page, a concrete manual of style, or any page on generic naming conventions. And all this darned stuff is protected.
  Is there a hidden place anywhere I can look for more of this sort of material? Are there any plans to make this material more readily accessible and easy to find?
  Plunging ahead, Fennec 01:17, Mar 6, 2004 (EST)
  • This is a pretty new site and we anticipate it growing rapidly. The initial pages are protected to maintain some control in these early stages at least. I agree that the help sections are not always readily available. What pages do people think are relevant to always be there? LQWiki:Help, LQWiki:How_to_edit_a_page, Wiki_markup and LQWiki:Manual_of_Style perhaps. The manual of style is still being considered as we see how members feel site should be. David ross 10:05, Mar 6, 2004 (EST)