*grin* And I'll supplement with two links that probably got lost in the points discussion:
http://dreamwidth.cometheapocalypse.com/notes/Points_brainstorming To help keep track of your edits, it is useful to make an account. You can either log in with your LiveJournal OpenID: http://dreamwidth.cometheapocalypse.com/notes/Special:OpenIDLogin Or you can create a new account: http://dreamwidth.cometheapocalypse.com/wiki/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin http://dreamwidth.cometheapocalypse.com/notes/IRC - come on in, we're a friendly-if-rowdy bunch! ;) Wikis are surprisingly easy to learn! If you'd told me 24 hours ago I'd be this comfortable doing things on the wiki, I would've given you very strange looks. But having people in IRC to poke for help is really useful and conducive to quick learning. :) - Lynne On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 1:46 PM, John Walton <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi! > > Let me start off by saying "I know nothing about wikis". That said, > neither does Ursie, who was the other option of someone in channel > typing something up, so here we go. It seems to us (that's the royal, > British "us", not just "Ursie & me") that there are two issues: (1) > is "how do wikis work" and (2) is "how do the DW wikis work"? > > (1) is pretty straightforward. Start off with: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_edit_a_page > > You'll probably find the Wiki Markup stection very useful. Then if > you need more info head on over to: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Howtos > > That should give you a reasonable grounding. > > (2) is basically: you jump in and start editing stuff. The lovely > Ursie has taken a bit of a first-pass through the page and made it a > leeeeeetle bit more obvious What Goes Where, but if you think there > needs to be another section then Go For It! (tm) > > Honestly, Dreamwidth doesn't have a level of rules and regs that are, > shall we say, sophisticated. The motto is "jump in and start a- > typin'" more than anything else. > > I heartily recommend the IRC channel if you fancy a bit of > handholding and "wait, how do I make a text link again?" type stuff. > Feel free to email me off-list if you need help getting into IRC. > > Cheers, > > --John > _______________________________________________ > dw-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.dwscoalition.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dw-discuss > -- http://www.lynnebaer.com/ * http://ursamajor.livejournal.com
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