On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 2:45 PM, adam <[email protected]> wrote: > I am embarrassed to say that I have never contributed to a wiki, but, > I would be happy to add the info. >
Excellent--appreciate your willingness to do this. And no need to be embarrassed at all, I'm glad you sent this to the list because it'll serve as a nice guideline for other people who would like to contribute. > > I was going to put it under the GAE section, but it is not just > related to GAE. So, where should it go? > Great question--this is and isn't related to GAE but it can go in multiple places by putting multiple categories on the page. > > Also, should I write the info as it applies to Facebook, or as it > applies to legacy form validation in general? > I'd say both, but I'm pretty sure what drove the feature in the first place was Facebook apps. It's a simple radio button in the openbd admin for the non-GAE version, but since there's no admin for GAE you need to edit the XML directly. > > Any other wiki guidelines in general? > We probably need a wiki page covering how to contribute to the wiki. ;-) Simplest thing to do is choose a simple page and use that as a guideline for adding the new page. So maybe just open up http://wiki.openbluedragon.org/wiki/index.php/GoogleAppEngine:URLRewritingfor editing (particularly since that was contributed by another wiki newbie!). Once you have that page open, the major things other than the formatting (and this is MediaWiki, so there are plenty of resources out there for formatting syntax) is the category notation at the very bottom of the page: [[Category:GoogleAppEngine]] And you can add as many of those as you want. In this case, I'd probably put this under the categories of GoogleAppEngine (particularly since A) this is how it came up and B) there's no admin with a radio button so there's no way to know that setting exists) as well as Configuration, which we don't currently have a category for. So you'd do this at the bottom: [[Category:GoogleAppEngine]] [[Category:Configuration]] And then when people go to this page: http://wiki.openbluedragon.org/wiki/index.php/Category:Configuration The article will automatically show up. Some of this discussion gets into information architecture issues, but I doubt there's enough Facebook-related stuff to warrant a category for Facebook (I thought about "external apps" but that doesn't seem to fit either), and the search in MediaWiki is really good so anyone searching for Facebook will find your article. > > I am sure that you could add the information just as quickly as > answering my questions, but if you give me a little direction, I may > be able to contribute to the wiki more effectively in the future. Absolutely--that's why I asked you to do it instead of doing it myself, so thanks for taking the bait! Let me know if you need any additional help, and I'll use this discussion as a bit of a starter for adding a page on the wiki outlining how to contribute. -- Matthew Woodward [email protected] http://blog.mattwoodward.com identi.ca/Twitter: @mpwoodward Please do not send me proprietary file formats such as Word, PowerPoint, etc. as attachments. http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html -- Open BlueDragon Public Mailing List http://www.openbluedragon.org/ http://twitter.com/OpenBlueDragon mailing list - http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en !! save a network - please trim replies before posting !!
