Hi Bruce, it sounds interesting! See http://sextapoetica.com.br It is a poetry wiki from Wikimedia Brasil, the brasilian WMF chapter. What's your wiki url? Hugs
Enviado de meu iPhone Em 13/09/2010, às 03:41, Bruce Whealton <[email protected]> escreveu: > Hello all, > Ok, if I start encouraging people to create articles, they will want > to see that their articles can be found and read by others. I added a > box from the CreateArticle extension, which makes it easy to create a > new article. The problem is that for people who aren't sold on wiki's > yet, in my community of users, they won't see the new article > showing up > as a link or anything. When you go to the front page you don't have > any > kind of link that shows every page. Should I add a link that shows > the > most recent pages? > I know that ideally new pages are linked to from other pages. With > the CreateArticle extension that won't happen, necessarily. One just > creates a new article. What's a best practice for sharing all the > pages/articles that are part of a wiki site? For a new site, it is > reasonable to show every single page for a while, until that list gets > too long. > I do need to learn more about Categories... but I'm not even sure > if > the intention is to create some kind of list, like a menu, or list of > links that include all the pages in a category... and if that is even > the case, if a user creates a page but doesn't put it in a category it > won't show up in any listing by category. Sure, you might show all > uncategorized articles but that will eventually become less useful as > the list grows. > Tips, suggestions, guidance, please? This has been confusing > me for some time... I have a poetry site and thought it would be > cool > to have a wiki about words, language, communication, writing and > meaning. I need to be able to think in terms of how wikis present > users > with information about all the articles in a site. > Thanks in advance for any help, > Bruce > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
