Re: [WikiEN-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] Do you want to write pages that thousands of people see every day?

2011-02-22 Thread Peter Coombe
I like what's been done so far. My day job is actually for a publisher selling computer help for beginners, so thought I'd share a few things we've learnt: * Address people personally, and try to make them feel included. This is why {{helpme}} is a great invention. * Bullet points are useful,

Re: [WikiEN-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] Do you want to write pages that thousands of people see every day?

2011-02-22 Thread Lennart Guldbrandsson
Great with so many ideas and comments. Feel free to edit the pages or, even better, create your own versions. They don't have to be that impressive now. We can work together to make them better once we knows which way to go. I will start testing the first one in a few hours. I just realised that

Re: [WikiEN-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] Do you want to write pages that thousands of people see every day?

2011-02-22 Thread MuZemike
On 2/22/2011 4:20 AM, Peter Coombe wrote: * Screenshots (especially labelled ones) are great for newbies. It's remarkably easy to overlook parts of the interface. Pages like this come to mind: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_edit_a_page (soon to be moved to