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Re: [mb-experts] WikiDocs Cristov Russell Fri Aug 11 22:29:19 2006
<html><body><font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" size="2">While I'll preface this statement with, I have not read the wiki pages on WikiDocs; if this is primarily HTML/CSS code and doc creation/modification I will volunteer to help. If it's much more than that it's probably outside my range of coding confidence.<br><br>Cristov (wolfsong)<br><br><span>--- Robert Kaye <<a id="linkification-flag-id" class="linkification-ext" href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">[EMAIL PROTECTED]</a>> wrote:</span><br><br><span>From: Robert Kaye <<a id="linkification-flag-id" class="linkification-ext" href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">[EMAIL PROTECTED]</a>></span><br>Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 10:53:22 -0800<br>To: Discussions about the development of MusicBrainz for experienced users<br><span> <<a id="linkification-flag-id" class="linkification-ext" href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">[EMAIL PROTECTED]</a>></span><br>Subject: Re: [mb-experts] WikiDocs<br><br>(Ok, you got me I'll respond in full now) <br> <br>On Jan 9, 2006, at 5:49 PM, Don Redman wrote: <br>> Nikki and me have talked about that. We'll see if we get some results. <br>> The idea was to send you so may patches to static html pages, that you <br>> would be _really_ motivated to finish WikiDocs ;-) <br> <br>I'd love that!! <br> <br>>> 4. In the meantime, lets start working on the improved docs that <br>>> everyone is screaming for. Updated moderation introduction with tons <br>>> of examples for starters. <br>>> 5. Develop these docs in the main wiki and copy them over manually <br>>> into the existing wikidocs system. Then once the next gen wikidocs <br>>> rolls around, we can transliterate directly from the wiki. <br>> <br>> I have been thinking about this a lot lately, and my conclusion is, <br>> that this will not work. People will not do this. It is too much work <br>> that nobody is prepared to do. <br> <br>What exactly are they not prepared to do? Write doc pages? Move stuff <br>from wikidocs to the wiki as we have discussed? I'd like to know more <br>about what pieces you are throwing out. <br> <br>> My idea is something like a Wikified UserCentric Interactive Context <br>> Help (WUCICH ;-) ). It is another self fulfilling kybernetical loop <br>> and would go like this: <br>> <br>> Each html page gets a macro (mason plugin or whatever) that yields a <br>> "Help" link which leads to a special wiki (help.mb.org). The name of <br>> the wiki page is constructed by using the url of the current page. <br><span>> <a id="linkification-flag-id" class="linkification-ext" href="http://musicbrainz.org/showmod.html?modid=4035007">http://musicbrainz.org/showmod.html?modid=4035007</a> would yield </span><br><span>> <a href="<a id="linkification-flag-id" class="linkification-ext" href="http://help.musicbrainz.org/HelpOnShowmod">http://help.musicbrainz.org/HelpOnShowmod</a>">Help</a> </span><br> <br>Thoughts: <br> <br>1) ANOTHER wiki? <br>2) How does this reflect on WikiDocs? <br>3) We still need classical narrative docs to be written. If we can't <br>find volunteers to do this, I will do it myself. Less coding that gets <br>done, but I don't want to hack on another half-baked documentation <br>system that doesn't get our docs updated *now*. <br>4) Are we switching course mid-stream AGAIN? <br>5) Whenever I use these context sensitive help things, they NEVER help <br>me. I have build up an aversion to them. <br> <br>-- <br> <br>--ruaok Somewhere in Texas a village is *still* missing its <br>idiot. <br> <br><span>Robert Kaye -- <a id="linkification-flag-id" class="linkification-ext" href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">[EMAIL PROTECTED]</a> -- <a class="linkification-ext" href="http://mayhem-chaos.net">http://mayhem-chaos.net</a> </span><br> <br>_______________________________________________ <br>Musicbrainz-experts mailing list <br><span><a id="linkification-flag-id" class="linkification-ext" href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">[EMAIL PROTECTED]</a> </span><br><span><a id="linkification-flag-id" class="linkification-ext" href="http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-experts">http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-experts</a></span><br></font></body></html>
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- Re: [mb-experts] WikiDocs Don Redman 2006/08/11
- Re: [mb-experts] WikiDocs Matthew Exon 2006/08/11
- Re: [mb-experts] WikiDocs Don Redman 2006/08/11