Mark Paterson wrote: >I wondered if a newbie opinion would be useful in thinking of what to put on >this page.
newbie opinions are exactly the kind of information needed. >My first day using PmWiki I got stuck because I had no idea how to get >started. So I went to Google and found a link to the PmWiki site showing >examples of how to format text in a wiki. This was great information. I was do you remember the URL of this site with great information? >intrigued, but still missing one thing: how to actually start editing a >page. You'd think I'd be smart enough to see the "Edit" action on the upper >right side of the page, but somehow I wasn't. I don't remember if this was >because the page had the actions turned off, or if I just didn't spot it. >So, anyway, a couple of thoughts based on my experience: >1) If this page is the place to begin, it would be nice if provided content >on how to edit, or linked to a page that did. I don't mean that it should BasicEditing does so, but there is certainly room for improvements. >have a lot of content here. Just a sentence or two saying "Wiki is not >WYSIWYG. Instead, you edit the page and add your content. You can do this by I like the "not WYSIWYG" hint and added it to BasicEditing. >hitting the edit link on the top right of most pages, or adding ?action=edit >to the URL." BTW, I was initially reluctant to edit the URL because it felt >a bit like "hacking" the site - like I was trying to go somewhere that the Ack, I wouldn't expect this from a newbie. >site didn't want me to go. Now that I'm used to it, it's no big deal. >2) Accessibility is very important. I think that the content on John's page >is great. It's concise, and it shows by example, which is just what I needed >as a beginner. I have no problems with the layout. If you want to change the http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/BasicEditing is also meant to be concise. It just was a bit overgrown in the past. >style, or do two column or two pages, fine. I probably slightly lean towards >having everything on one page, so I have one place to search, but having an >index page would be OK too. But I need to be able to get here from Google >easily (or at a pinch, from the PmWiki search). I don't know if I'm typical, The link to BasicEditing is in the pmwiki.org sidebar, therefore visible on most pages. >maybe not, but nowadays I rarely try going to a specific site first for >searches; Google usually works. If there's a way (maybe using keywords?) to >map "beginner," "newbie," "editing" and so forth to this page, that would be >very helpful. This is possible with the (:keywords word1, word2, ...:) directive. Any more suggestions about keywords to add? Oliver -- Oliver Betz, Muenchen (oliverbetz.de) _______________________________________________ pmwiki-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users
