huh. interesting. But I think it's too bad that users (non-technical and otherwise) need so much hand-holding when it come to software.
With a DVD player (or a car or house), a user will press the button or flip a switch to learn what a thing does. With software, and tools like MediaWiki, there is this underlying fear of "breaking it", so a user won't play in the sandbox. It's too bad. Evelyn ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Evelyn Yoder Technical Communications http://appswhisperer.com On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 4:29 PM, Clayton <ccorn...@openoffice.org> wrote: > Evelyn Yoder wrote: > > Hi - > > > > I noticed that you took the time to build a page to describe the > extensions > > you installed, but you might be interested to know that MW includes such > a > > page as part of the special pages: > > > > http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Special:Version > > > Yes, I'm aware of that, but, we have one or two custom extensions, some > extensions (at least in the past) only show up on the Versions page as > hooks, functions or tags, and some extensions need custom local > documentation (I've made mods to some that in some cases I still need to > document). I also link to the external documentation directly where I > can where the Versions page links to the main Extension page - this was > not really helping some of our less technically savvy users who just > wanted to know how to use the extension... not how to install it. :-) > > C. > -- > Clayton Cornell ccorn...@openoffice.org > OpenOffice.org Documentation Project co-lead > Sun Microsystems, Hamburg, Germany > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
