On Sat, 2011-11-05 at 15:43 +0000, Tom Davies wrote:
> Hi :)
> Ahhh, it's actually a LOT easier than that.
>
> 1. You just register a user-name and login for yourself, just as you would
> with registering at a forum. It's less tricky than setting up an email
> account such as gmail or yahoo. I think there might be a 24hour delay before
> you get the confirmation email to your address but that email should help you
> login for the first time and change your password to something simple and
> short.
>
> Sadly the wiki doesn't seem to allow really complicated passwords so stick to
> letters and maybe numbers but no "funny characters". Experiment with the
> password after you have got the first one sorted out.
>
> Hmm actually this password stuff is the really messy, clunky and confusing
> bit and it is probably
> that which is making the whole thing seem like a nightmare. I had to use the
> password "password"
> (which is the most common and most hacked/cracked password out there) for
> quite a while before i
> was able to find something better that i could use & remember.
Thanks to those who replied for the directions. I have registered
on the wiki, received the confirmation email, clicked the link to
confirm which opened my browser, and saw the message that I am now
registered. Step one is completed.
> 2. Once you have an account and have logged in and are at the page you want
> to edit it's much
> like just writing an email. Once you have written what you want scroll down
> past all the
> language options, write a brief comment in the equivalent of the subject-line
> and click the
> appropriate button to "submit" changes. The preview button can be a bit
> confusing at first so
> don't bother using it until you have made a few successful changes to a page.
>
A little later this afternoon I will access the wiki page
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Team/JobDescriptions using the
wiki extension in
LibreOffice. We will see how that goes. I expect it to work.
> 3. It is possible to use a type of mark-up language that does quite a few
> things that html
> would do but uses a different language called wiki-mark-up. If you are
> fairly familiar with
> html it's easy. If you're not it's still reasonably easy. Either way it's
> worth leaving
> formatting for other people to do later until you have had a bit of practice
> at just getting
> plain text added a few times.
>
> 4. There are pages that show what changes have been made recently throughout
> the wiki so if
> you make some stupid dumb mistake someone else can probably fix it. Don't
> worry about making
> dumb mistakes everyone makes them especially while learning and most people
> are just happy to
> see someone new joining in and may even help with a couple of quick
> hints&tips.
>
> Good luck, have fun and don't worry! Just add stuff and see how it goes :)
> Regards from
> Tom :)
> >
Dan
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