Hi Andreas,
in the last days I moved another Howto to the wiki:
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/DE/How_Tos/Erste_Schritte_in_Impress2
(not yet completely finished; some graphics are to big)
It is the original german version of "First Steps in Impress 2" that
I put about three weeks ago into the wiki. The
mediawiki-export-filter worked much better for most of the grafics
inside this de-howto, because they are hyperlinked. But there are
some problems with the export of text. At the beginning of the
exported text there was a paragraph that hasn't been there in the
original odt. And all the notes inside the original-odt was
exported. So I had to delete them and proofread the text again.
For the first problem I opened an Issue where you could find the
export-file:
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=82947
As you could see the de-howto inside the wiki is designed with
special infos (tips and hints) with grey background. To do this
inside the wiki I had to do a lot of manual work (inside OOo it is
a very fast work).
So I was actual not very empressed about the potential of the wiki.
Actually, the wiki can do a lot when using templates. Not much
manual work needed and you can get a handle on all occurrences
of such things as notes or tips., etc.
It is mainly my fauilt that we still don't have a wiki editing
guide/policy that explains some tips and tricks.
Many things had to be done manually. You had to know many things
about manual formating (graphics for example). I think the wiki
I agree, it's some manual work, but f you did it once, it's fairly
straightforward.
without a graphical user interface (for every common formating
operation) is not the best way to get more new documentation about
Well, for one, there is a basic formatting bar available at the top
of the edit section. Did you use that? Also, we are trying to get that
wiki engine updated so we can make use of some extensions, a wysiwyg
editor could be one of them.
OOo. I would prefer to try another framework: plone. It provides
many things which are missed in the wiki. And there are a lot of
people working on documentation, which have experience with that
framework.
Right. But currently that's not an option since we should stick
with one wiki. I assume that you have a lot of experience with
plone and now feel a bit lost in mediawiki. I will try to come
up with some guidance and would like to ask you to keep practicing
mediawiki to get somewhat familiar. It's always hard to compare a
familiar system with a new one.
In any case, let me thank you for your efforts in putting the
howto in the wiki. Keep shuffling DE howtos and I will see
if I can assist in translating them to English.
Frank
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