Re: [documentation-dev] OOo development - interesting question

2010-07-05 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
On 07/06/10 02:00, Alex Fisher wrote: I hope not! Some people like the Social Media stuff... others don't. I have an interesting question that I was asked today, mainly about Microsoft Office but I thought it could apply to OpenOffice.org too: Do you think in the future an extension will be

Re: [documentation-dev] Creating Daisy files

2010-05-04 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
On 05/04/10 14:11, Andrew Jensen wrote: Hoping someone can give me some guidance here. I would like your opinion on the feasibility of converting our User Guids from ODT to Daisy file format. First - has anyone done this already? Second - does anyone here have any experience with doing this? Thi

[documentation-dev] Small change in how we reply to unsubscribed people

2010-04-08 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
Hi everyone. As you all have probably noticed, recently there have been a lot of messages from new people who are interested in joining up with the Documentation project. The reason we've had so many all of a sudden is because we're finally monitoring the Moderation queue for the project mai

Re: [documentation-dev] OpenOffice user guide

2010-03-29 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
On 03/29/10 08:10 AM, Joshua Tan wrote: Hi! I'm happy to contribute to the OpenOffice user guide. I've worked as a researcher in bioinformatics for over a year and primarily use open source software. Thus, I'm quite familiar with the open-source movement and the software it uses. Do let me know

Re: [documentation-dev] faqs

2010-03-29 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
On 03/29/10 02:33 AM, alk...@msn.com wrote: I'd like to write FAQ. I'm a writer. Al Karr Hi Al, and welcome to the OpenOffice.org Documentation Project. We have two main mailing lists: dev@documentation.openoffice.org, for discussions related to project infrastructure and policy,

Re: [documentation-dev] seeking to volunteer as technical writer

2010-03-29 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
On 03/28/10 12:24 AM, gilles lamoureux wrote: Seeking to volunteer as a Technical Writer. Have written training and user manual for employer's software database. gilles Hi Gilles, and welcome to the OpenOffice.org Documentation Project. We have two main mailing lists: dev@documentation.o

Re: [documentation-dev] General Contribution Ruleset (Ping Clayton)

2010-03-22 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
On 03/22/10 12:50 PM, bjoern michaelsen - Sun Microsystems - Hamburg Germany wrote: On Mon, 22 Mar 2010 09:16:59 +0100 "ccornell - OpenOffice.org" wrote: OK, I've added the link, and wrapped with with a blue box so it stands out as important info (the Translation info

Re: [documentation-dev] General Contribution Ruleset (Ping Clayton)

2010-03-22 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
On 03/21/10 11:38 AM, bjoern michaelsen - Sun Microsystems - Hamburg Germany wrote: Hi List, a simple set of project-independent wiki contribution rules has been created at: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/OOo_Wiki_Contribution_Rules All known current rulesets by the various project

Re: [documentation-dev] MD5Sums on download.openoffice.org

2010-03-01 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
On 02/28/10 16:44, Andreas Saeger wrote: Hi, The MD5 link on the main download page points to the raw text file of md5sums. Until recently, the link target included a short how-to on md5 on different operating systems. This information is necessary for most visitors before they continue to dow

Re: [documentation-dev] Mirror Sites - general enquiry

2010-03-01 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
On 03/01/10 12:36, Claire Wood wrote: Hi I'm having a problem uninstalling and reinstalling OOo because the download seems to get stuck after downloading 25% of the package and so I went onto the mirror site for UK, not the Virgin media one cos that one runs really slowly. I've only had to use

Re: [documentation-dev] Top 25 Technical Writing Blogs

2010-02-24 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
On 02/24/10 16:24, Claire Wood wrote: > BTW, something I did stumble upon on Facebook is a site called http://www.shareopenoffice.org/ that people are posting to. Do you know anything about it. It only has about 40 users I think, but I'd never heard of it before and issues are being posted up

Re: [documentation-dev] Top 25 Technical Writing Blogs

2010-02-24 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
On 02/24/10 13:36, Claire Wood wrote: Hi Clayton I just tried it by sharing on twitter and facebook and the share was successful. The only thing is once you've shared the wiki pages gives you a pop up box inviting the sharer to download something to make it easier to share using IE, whether it

Re: [documentation-dev] Top 25 Technical Writing Blogs

2010-02-24 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
On 02/24/10 12:16, Claire Wood wrote: Hi Clayton On the one hand I think it would be good to try it on a small area of the wiki, if that's possible, because it is the way information sharing is going nowadays but maybe we should just experiment with one particular area of OOo. For instance mayb

Re: [documentation-dev] Top 25 Technical Writing Blogs

2010-02-24 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
On 02/23/10 20:24, Claire Wood wrote: I tried experimenting with one of the wiki pages putting a button on using AddThis (http://www.addthis.com/) and I couldn't get it to work on the wiki page. There are users on twitter and I see them all the time. There are also 75 groups on facebook all ded

Re: [documentation-dev] I'd love to help out.

2010-02-23 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
On 02/23/10 09:51, Christopher Burke wrote: Dear Dev. I've got 18 Computing quals, mainly in old-school stuff like Basic and Cobol, but a fair few in Databases, WordProcessing and Spreadsheets. I wouldn't call myself an Industry Whizz, but I'm good enough to be able to sort out most problems

Re: [documentation-dev] Open Office documentation contribution

2010-02-23 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
On 02/22/10 18:23, Ryan Fulcher wrote: Dear Folks at Open Office: This is Ryan Fulcher, and I'm a current student in the MS in Technical Communication program at NC State University. I found your documentation contributions page while exploring the Open Office site. I'm writing because I arde

Re: [documentation-dev] User Guides

2010-02-23 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
On 02/21/10 09:37, Bhanu Iyer wrote: Hi, I am a Masters in Computer Science student at Southern Oregon University, Ashland, OR and I am very interested in writing documents for openoffice.org. I would like to contribute to the User Guides section. Please let me know how to proceed. Thanking Yo

Re: [documentation-dev] Ch15 Writer Guide - Forms

2010-02-23 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
On 02/23/10 12:39, Claire Wood wrote: Hi Everyone Can anyone tell me please what a "spinner" is in relation to creating forms using Writer? I've never come across this term before, and how does it work? It's a funny name software developers have given to one of the common GUI elements. Ge

Re: [documentation-dev] Contributing to OpenOffice

2010-02-23 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
On 02/20/10 02:56, Rachel Komlo wrote: Hi! I'm very interested in helping Open Office out by providing my writing skills. I love OpenOffice and don't mind donating my time to help the site/software. If you'd provide me with some more information on how I can do this, please email me back. I'd re

Re: [documentation-dev] contribute to user FAQs

2010-02-23 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
On 02/18/10 23:59, urvashi singh wrote: Hi Dev, I would like to contribute to openoffice and want to start with user FAQs or anything you deem fit for a beginner. I have been writing and blogging for sometime and am currently updating my IT skills to begin a career in technical writing. Here

Re: [documentation-dev] Participate in OpenOffice.org

2010-02-23 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
On 02/18/10 18:00, Jojy Johnson wrote: Dear Administrator Member, I am Jojy P Johnson from Kerala, India. I have been following your website openoffice.org for the last three years. It has been my long time desire to communicate with your forum and establish a contact. My intention is to become

Re: [documentation-dev] Would like to contribute

2010-02-23 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
On 02/18/10 15:58, K. Narssimhan wrote: Hi, I am technical writer and manage a small technical writing company in India. Would like to contribute to OpenOffice by writing parts of its User Guide. Do let me know how I can help. Best regards, K. Narssimhan Hi, and welcome to the OpenOffice.org

Re: [documentation-dev] Introduction

2010-02-15 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
On 02/13/10 07:24, kennonw...@verizon.net wrote: I am interested in helping with the User's Guide. I have been using OpenOffice for more than three years and have a good understanding of how it works. If interested you can contact me at the e-mail address below. Thank you for your time and att

Re: [documentation-dev] Proofreading

2010-02-15 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
On 02/13/10 03:11, John Kesson wrote: Hello: I'd like to contribute to OpenOffice. I think the way I could best help is by proofreading User Guide documents for spelling, grammar and punctuation in English. Naturally, I'd also look for errors in the instructions but that wo

Re: [documentation-dev] Personalized e-mailing with Ooo

2010-02-15 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
On 02/12/10 20:58, Jean Colladon wrote: Hello, I do like and know about MDB (Marketing Data Base), for BtoB or BtoC. I helped several persons working on Arts to send e-mailings to customers with personalized text and images. I'd like to make a documentation on that subject (in french). I didn

Re: [documentation-dev] Writing tutorials

2010-02-15 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
On 02/12/10 20:56, E.B. Ferree wrote: I would be happy to help by creating tutorials and how-to's for the project. I am a freelance writer with over twenty years' experience and currently have a little more time as I deal with a disability. Beth Ferree beth.fer...@gmail.com Welcome to the Op

Re: [documentation-dev] User Guides and Tutorials

2010-02-15 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
On 02/12/10 18:55, John Hart wrote: In my business, I am often asked to write material for our clients (brochures, newsletters etc.) but especially requested to edit existing articles, presentations and books. This latter area is where I am most comfortable, and would be pleased to assist whe

Re: [documentation-dev] Editing

2010-02-15 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
On 02/12/10 17:50, Claire Wood wrote: I don't mind looking at the Impress Guide tonight and this weekend if it is urgent and needs updating. I have loads of time on my hands being unemployed at the mo. Otherwise I can concentrate on the Getting Started Guide on the Wiki. Just let me know which

Re: [documentation-dev] Fwd: Advice about where to start documenting API stuff

2010-02-15 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
On 02/14/10 20:46, Claire Wood wrote: Hi I wonder if I can ask some advice. I'd like to have a go at documenting the Calc/API stuff on the Documentation/Needwork Wiki page if no-one else gets there before me and after I've done as much of the Getting Started Wiki Guide as I can before I go away

Re: [documentation-dev] FAQ's

2010-02-04 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
On 02/03/10 14:43, Claire Wood wrote: Hi, my name is Claire and I'm retraining as a technical author following a career break to care for a loved one. I have 5 years documentation experience and am looking at upgrading my skill set. I'd love to contribute to the documentation side of things and

Re: [documentation-dev] Text Boxes

2010-02-04 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
On 02/03/10 23:18, Allen Wilson wrote: Ladies and Gentlemen, I really enjoy the features and benefits in Open Office. I have used WordPerfect in the past and liked many of its features. In particular the ability to insert text boxes in the program were very helpful for some of our business li

Re: [documentation-dev] downlading problem

2010-02-04 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
On 02/02/10 18:50, edward gwyn wrote: Hello, I have been trying to download open office for the last few days now and it is telling me that there is a server issue. is there anyway you could send me the file to my email so i can download from there. It is saying that the server is too busy

[documentation-dev] Cleanup the Doc Project mailing lists

2010-02-01 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
As part of the preparation work I'm trying to do for the pending migration of the OOo website, I've taken a look at the Documentation Project mailing lists... and there are a lot of them. A significant number are dead mailing lists with no activity in a very long time. I propose that we delet

Re: [documentation-dev] FOSDEM input?

2010-01-26 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
So... if you don't mind being famous for 15 seconds at this years FOSDEM in Belgium... here's your chance. :-) What we are looking for is one or two sentences about why you contribute to the Doc Project... what motivates you. Nothing profound, just something that will add a human element to t

[documentation-dev] FOSDEM input?

2010-01-25 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
FOSDEM is coming up fast. I've been asked if I can put together a couple of Impress slides (for the Doc Project) to be included in the continuous presentation that will be shown at the OpenOffice.org booth. I will distill something out of the Doc Project presentation that was given at the OOo

Re: [documentation-dev] "find your language" on main documentation page

2010-01-25 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
On 01/25/10 14:56, Cor Nouws wrote: A Dutch speaking user asks if it is possible to jump to your OpenOffice.org language directly, when you click in the link for Documentation in the menu Help|Support. http://documentation.openoffice.org/ Sounds nice in an ideal world. But apart from technical

Re: [documentation-dev] Info for new users - "Switching from Excel/Word to Calc/Writer easily"

2009-12-07 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
I've imported the Calc page here: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/nl/Makkelijk_overstappen_van_Excel_naar_Calc The Writer page is here: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/nl/Makkelijk_overstappen_van_Word_naar_Writer [snip] I've been looking over t

Re: [documentation-dev] Info for new users - "Switching from Excel/Word to Calc/Writer easily"

2009-12-07 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
On 11/17/09 10:35, Cor Nouws wrote: ccornell - OpenOffice.org wrote (17-11-2009 9:43) I've imported the Calc page here: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/nl/Makkelijk_overstappen_van_Excel_naar_Calc The Writer page is here: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org

Re: [documentation-dev] Welcome to the OpenOffice.org Documentation project!

2009-12-04 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
The overall project membership list is very long, and not real informative [2]. But maybe their last login shows up somewhere in a logfile? Possibly... but that is buried in the Colabnet infrastructure somewhere. I cannot say how many people are active, or even ever came back after joining

Re: [documentation-dev] moving Documentation/nl to NL/Documentation

2009-11-30 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
is there a possiblity to move Documenation/nl to NL/Documentation with all subpages? There currently seems to be a 100 pages limit, maybe we could lift that limit for this one move? Done. I bumped the page move limitation for this move, and am now using the WikiBot to tidy up the double redire

Re: [documentation-dev] Using relative path names on Wiki pages

2009-11-30 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
Http-Links in the same Wiki are evil and stupid. I just replaced them all :-) (at least those I could find with Search) mmh, this can be probably done with a wiki bot automatically. A bot running all 3 months or so and search for URLs starting with htpp://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki. A

Re: [documentation-dev] Using relative path names on Wiki pages

2009-11-30 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
On 11/30/09 11:50, ccornell - OpenOffice.org wrote: BTW, can somebody with the permission to do so please clear out http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Category:Candidates_for_speedy_deletion Esp. the categories should go because the longer they stay, the higher is the risk that they

Re: [documentation-dev] moving Documentation/nl to NL/Documentation

2009-11-30 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
On 11/30/09 12:04, bjoern michaelsen - Sun Microsystems - Hamburg Germany wrote: On Mon, 30 Nov 2009 11:53:58 +0100 "ccornell - OpenOffice.org" wrote: What 100 page limit are you talking about? see http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Special:MovePage/Documentation/nl "Mo

Re: [documentation-dev] moving Documentation/nl to NL/Documentation

2009-11-30 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
is there a possiblity to move Documenation/nl to NL/Documentation with all subpages? There currently seems to be a 100 pages limit, maybe we could lift that limit for this one move? It can be done... I've been thinking about setting up the WikiBot to do this. It takes a bit of work to get it "

Re: [documentation-dev] Using relative path names on Wiki pages

2009-11-30 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
BTW, can somebody with the permission to do so please clear out http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Category:Candidates_for_speedy_deletion Esp. the categories should go because the longer they stay, the higher is the risk that they will be used again (although they are redundant). Also, when

Re: [documentation-dev] Using relative path names on Wiki pages

2009-11-30 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
Please unsubscribe me from all list thank you I've contacted this user off-list. C. -- Clayton Cornell ccorn...@openoffice.org OpenOffice.org Documentation Project co-lead StarOffice - Sun Microsystems, Inc. - Hamburg, Germany -

Re: [documentation-dev] Using relative path names on Wiki pages

2009-11-30 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
I still find that people are using the full http path for links within the Wiki... so a link to the next page shows as an external link instead of an internal link. :-( Ok, but is that a big problem? Ultimately it gets the job done, but internal links really should not be linked using extern

Re: [documentation-dev] Using relative path names on Wiki pages

2009-11-30 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
But that's not what I meant. What I meant is like in the file system: absolute paths start at the root. So e.g. (imaginary) [[Documentation/UserGuide/GettingStarted/chapter1]] is an absolute path, while relative paths start with the present document's path, so to link to the above Page from an

Re: [documentation-dev] Messed up DE categories

2009-11-24 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
On 11/24/09 15:37, Nino Novak wrote: Clayton, you changed several Categories und the DE/ Page tree. Now, to me all seems messed up. The only DE page I touched (outside of the WikiBot) was: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/DE/Documentation How did the one change mess things up? Are the

Re: [documentation-dev] FlaggedRevs is installed in the Wiki

2009-11-24 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
BTW: can we see these users (some days ago I asked for some statistics, now for example in this context, it would be interesting to know how many contributors have made how many contributions) I still have the statistics mails on my to-do list. There are some basic user/access starts you can g

Re: [documentation-dev] FlaggedRevs is installed in the Wiki

2009-11-24 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
I don't believe that we will need Autopromotion in the near future as this makes only sense in Wikis where hundreds of new contributors register daily. So hopefully one day... but not now. In the end, I'd guess we'll have 30-40 reviewers maximally. True enough. I'm not in a rush to set Autop

[documentation-dev] FlaggedRevs is installed in the Wiki

2009-11-24 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
I don't know if any of you noticed it yet... I've managed to install the FlaggedRevs extension into the OOoWiki. Documentation for this extension is found here: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:FlaggedRevs It still needs a little tweaking on the options, but we can start using it a

Re: [documentation-dev] Wiki: Category:Documentation overloaded

2009-11-23 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
a little bit confused ... what's going wrong here? All that is going on here is that on Friday I sent the Wiki bot over a stack of uncategorized Documentation pages, and dumped them all into the root Documentation Category. This was wrong... I should have put them elsewhere (either in some I

Re: [documentation-dev] Wiki: Category:Documentation overloaded

2009-11-23 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
My personal preference would be to create a Category / (where is the localized term) as subcategory of Documentation (as I have done for DE/Dokumentation) To do this we need to enlist the help of people from the various NLC communities.. I can't spell Documentation in Chinese... or Bulgarian.

[documentation-dev] Wiki Mind Map on OOoWiki

2009-11-19 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
One of the requests I got during OOoCon this year was to install a Wiki Mind Map on the OOoWiki. I've been experimenting with this off and on over the past few days, and not really making a lot of progress. Sophie suggested this one: http://www.wikimindmap.org/ If you click About it will tak

Re: [documentation-dev] How to make localized sites

2009-11-19 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
Just thought if creating a translation page from a given doc page could be facilitated by adding an Extension:CreatePage form that somehow (I haven't had a closer look yet, maybe TJ could?) creates the destination page with the correct pathname and directly opens it for editing? (But this is ju

Re: [documentation-dev] How to make localized sites

2009-11-19 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
1) Move every page at http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/w/index.php?title=Special:UncategorizedPages&limit=2400 in a at least vaguely fitting category. Those are maily a few huge groups: - ~700 pages in "Documentation/How Tos/Calc:" - ~100 pages of "ReleaseStatus Minutes" - ~100 pages of "Log Ma

Re: [documentation-dev] How to make localized sites

2009-11-19 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
I've created Help:Translating, and edited the Wiki Editing Policy to transclude the text from the Help page back into the Policy page. http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Help:Translating http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Dashboard/Wiki_Editing_Policy#Localizing_Content

Re: [documentation-dev] How to make localized sites

2009-11-17 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
Arent there a few WikiBots that could be trained to do the task? For Bot tasks I use pywikipediabot (Python based bot that's pretty easy to use). I run it on my own computer at home, using a Bot user ID that's set up specifically for this task. It's hard to run the python bot on the server

Re: [documentation-dev] How to make localized sites

2009-11-17 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
I'm curious as to why this is happening? Is there perhaps a better way to do this? Simply because people don't think about what they are doing or don't realize that they have replaced the original text. When I contact then to tell them they've done this it's almost always surprise.. they did

[documentation-dev] Help: Extensions is complete

2009-11-17 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
OK, I'm done with the first pass at creating a Help:Extensions page http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Help:Extensions I'll update this list and the linked Help pages when new extensions are added/enabled. I'll also eventually add this to the main Wiki Help page: http://wiki.services.ope

Re: [documentation-dev] Info for new users - "Switching from Excel/Word to Calc/Writer easily"

2009-11-17 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
I've imported the Calc page here: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/nl/Makkelijk_overstappen_van_Excel_naar_Calc The Writer page is here: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/nl/Makkelijk_overstappen_van_Word_naar_Writer I changed the Heading levels on

Re: [documentation-dev] How to make localized sites

2009-11-17 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
at http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/How_Tos/Calc:_FDIST_function there is again the problem, that someone exchanged the English text with a translation. You are correct, but there seems to be a larger problem. Some 250 pages of Russian-language documentation are in th

[documentation-dev] Writing a beginner book on OpenOffice.org

2009-11-16 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
I was asked to forward this to the Doc Project mailing list... maybe someone here would be interested... == Pearson is seeking an author to write a beginning level OpenOffice book. The author candidate also needs to be a skilled presenter as video is a key compo

[documentation-dev] Updated webpages and added new Wiki page for OOoAuthors docs

2009-11-12 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
I've moved the page that listed the individual chapters for the published User guides. The new page in the Wiki is here: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/OOo3_User_Guides/Chapters and the link from the Doc Project web page has been updated to point to this Wiki page. C.

[documentation-dev] Notes from OOoCon2009

2009-11-12 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
So... despite evidence to the contrary, I actually did survive the trip to Orvieto :-P The conference was well organized this year. The Italian community did an excellent job of arranging facilities, video streaming the sessions, etc etc. Attendance was good, but I'm guessing not as many as i

[documentation-dev] Multilang Extension for possibly better Language support in the OOoWIki

2009-11-02 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
I wonder if this would be useful in the OOoWiki for translations? http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Multilang The part that caught my attention: = Usage Especially small parts of texts like in templates (where you are forced to use exactly the same template name) can e

Re: [documentation-dev] Statistics

2009-10-26 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
On 10/15/09 11:42, Nino Novak wrote: Does anybody know if there is any download statistics for the documents located on oooauthors? Or their wiki derivates? Or any other derivates/mirror sites? Sold books? and so on. The stats project seems to be a little out of date. I did not find any doc r

Re: [documentation-dev] Wikidoc: Licensing

2009-10-01 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
The only thing to do so far seems to put the right license Template on every page. I'll try to do this in the next days. That is how we're handling it on the Doc pages. Each page has a footer (using a Template) that states what license the content is released under... generally that would be

Re: [documentation-dev] Wikidoc: Licensing

2009-10-01 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
As I said, it's not so easy. Attempts have been made in the past to clarify things across the Wiki and bring all content under a known set of licenses. This has not worked for many reasons. Within the Documentation Project Wiki pages - the place *we* can influence and control, we can and do

Re: [documentation-dev] Chinese translation of the OOo User Guides

2009-10-01 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
On 10/01/09 09:51, ccornell - OpenOffice.org wrote: On 09/30/09 16:13, Clayton wrote: A new user popped up on the OOoWiki, and this person has been busily translating the OOo3 User Guides into Chinese. See: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Claire Success! I got

Re: [documentation-dev] Chinese translation of the OOo User Guides

2009-10-01 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
On 09/30/09 16:13, Clayton wrote: A new user popped up on the OOoWiki, and this person has been busily translating the OOo3 User Guides into Chinese. See: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Claire Success! I got in contact by email with this user. I'm sorting out

Re: [documentation-dev] Wikidoc: Licensing

2009-10-01 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
Then I'd suggest to start over ASAP. Putting things right IMHO is an important prerequisite for productive work. Easy to say, but very difficult (but not impossible) to do. Starting over introduces a lot of issues... maintaining 2 valid/live Wikis is an admin nightmare. If you lock the old

Re: [documentation-dev] Proposed change to "Templates" page in Basic Guide

2009-09-29 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
On 09/29/09 11:30, T. J. Frazier wrote: Done, major changes. Have a look. --/tj/ :-) Looks good! It makes more sense now... reading about styles and seeing them called styles instead of templates. C. -- Clayton Cornell ccorn...@openoffice.org OpenOffice.org Documentation Project co-l

Re: [documentation-dev] annoying captchas

2009-09-21 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
However, the solution with captchas on external urls is not a good soution - if a (human) spammer bypasses it, you still have to manually check it. Whitelisting/Blacklisting could help automating this job (as in MoinMoin). Captchas on external URLs is just the default for the reCaptcha extens

Re: [documentation-dev] Wiki: Watchlist + E-Mail-Notification

2009-09-17 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
IMHO, the emails from the CategoryWatch are distinctly inferior to the normal emails from the Watch List, in that they don't include a nice, clickable link to the category being watched. Is it easy or hard, to add something like that? This adds more info... not changes what you get on the norm

Re: [documentation-dev] Wiki: Watchlist + E-Mail-Notification

2009-09-17 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
I don't recall seeing anything like that in the extension's installation instructions, although such things are commonly mentioned in other extensions. You might leave a comment about what is actually required on the extension's talk page. (I wouldn't know how to format the $wg stuff properly.)

Re: [documentation-dev] Wiki: Watchlist + E-Mail-Notification

2009-09-17 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
The Workflow extension is definitely experimental, but it looks like any bugs would only affect its users, not the rest of us. Worth considering. Pure egoism: for me as user, a defined document state gives much more confidence about the validity of the content. The extension FlaggedRevs: htt

Re: [documentation-dev] Wiki: Watchlist + E-Mail-Notification

2009-09-17 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
On 09/16/09 18:31, Nino Novak wrote: On Wednesday 16 September 2009 17:50, Nino Novak wrote: Did you try something like $wgWatchSubpages['user'] = true; or $wgGroupPermissions['user' ]['watchsubpages'] = true; This did it. Now you can see the new page in Special:Specialpages I've tested

Re: [documentation-dev] Wiki: Watchlist + E-Mail-Notification

2009-09-15 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
On 09/13/09 17:58, Nino Novak wrote: Looks like MediaWiki still does not have a particularly usful watch functionality. In MoinMoin (another wiki engine), for example, you can set up a regex for watched pages. For example, I'd like to watch all pages under the DE/ hierarchy, particularly page

Re: [documentation-dev] Help desperately needed for Ch7 of Calc Guide

2009-09-15 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
BTW, Clayton may correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think renaming the page is the best way to handle this; you can simply change the DISPLAYTITLE attribute on the existing page. It depends... if the wrongly named page shows up in the breadcrumb incorrectly, then I'd opt for renaming (moving

Re: [documentation-dev] wikidoc: Tip/Note/Caution Templates break list order

2009-09-15 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
On 09/15/09 11:57, Nino Novak wrote: On Tuesday 15 September 2009 11:52, Nino Novak wrote: On Tuesday 15 September 2009 10:11, ccornell - OpenOffice.org wrote: Before we roll this up into the main template, I'd like to see one test done... see what happens when you export a page (that

Re: [documentation-dev] wikidoc: Tip/Note/Caution Templates break list order

2009-09-15 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
Yes seen this in many examples but thought there might be a solution without html (which goes better with the idea of a wiki). The problem is that if you insert a space or another Wiki element between the Wiki markup for numbered lists (ie #) the Wiki rendering engine assumes you want to rest

Re: [documentation-dev] wikidoc: breadcrumb localization problem

2009-09-15 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
which hardly could be stumbled upon except "by doing" ;-) :-) Yes, you're right. Therefore, a Big Thankyou to all the contributors of the big work done so far which I just could use :-) Don't forget yourself in this thank you too... you're asking the tough questions... and they need to b

Re: [documentation-dev] wikidoc: Tip/Note/Caution Templates break list order

2009-09-15 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
On 09/14/09 22:04, Nino Novak wrote: As I didn't succeed in putting one of the Documentation/... templates into a numbered list without breaking list order, I created a simplified version: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Template:TEST/Doc/Note which seems to work pretty well. Could p

Re: [documentation-dev] wikidoc: breadcrumb localization problem

2009-09-10 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
It makes sense to standardize everything to a master template that everyone works to improve. All changes flow out from the master template. All translations flow out from the master template. From that point if someone really really wants to create an alternative, they can easily spin off some

Re: [documentation-dev] Page rating extension on the Wiki

2009-09-07 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
On 09/07/09 14:35, Nino Novak wrote: On Monday 07 September 2009 10:08, ccornell - OpenOffice.org wrote: A while back, the UX project requested that we install an extension that would allow users to rate or rank a page. Nice! We should look for some nice seagull icons replacing the stars

Re: [documentation-dev] Page rating extension on the Wiki

2009-09-07 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
On 09/07/09 10:08, ccornell - OpenOffice.org wrote: A while back, the UX project requested that we install an extension that would allow users to rate or rank a page. There were problems with the previous MediaWiki engine that prevented us from rolling out this extension - those problems were

Re: [documentation-dev] Announcing translated phrases in MasterTOC template

2009-09-07 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
On 09/06/09 11:44, T. J. Frazier wrote: User Nnino and I have completed the automated translation of the phrases displayed by the template, MasterTOC ("Next page", for example). The template now processes a new parameter line, "|Lang=XX", where "XX" is the (case-sensitive) ISO code for the desi

Re: [documentation-dev] [Fwd: [authors] fm for Macintosh or UNIX available cheap]

2009-09-07 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
BTW, FrameMaker 7.0 is available for the Macintosh. And recent UNIX versions of FrameMaker are also available. Anything in the FM7 series should be cheap via eBay. FrameMaker 8 or 9 would not be necessary for DocBook, as even the "ancient" (still used in some houses) pre-2002 FM 6 would suffice

[documentation-dev] Page rating extension on the Wiki

2009-09-07 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
A while back, the UX project requested that we install an extension that would allow users to rate or rank a page. There were problems with the previous MediaWiki engine that prevented us from rolling out this extension - those problems were corrected with the most recent MediaWiki upgrade, so

[documentation-dev] Toggle Display back in the Wiki

2009-09-07 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
I've added ToggleDisplay back to the Wiki. The rpoblems we had with this extension and the older MediaWiki engine have been resolved, and the extension is working correctly now (also being used on WikiPedia, so it should be stable enough for our use as well). http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Ext

Re: [documentation-dev] Localized Documentation in the Wiki

2009-08-27 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
The Templates seem to be mainly in English. Maybe I'l translate some of them when needing it. Following the same page naming convention might be a good initial choice? Yes, that is how the other translations have done it. Ok. My drafts will appear in my own userspace under /Drafts/DE/Documen

Re: [documentation-dev] Localized Documentation in the Wiki

2009-08-27 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
On 08/27/09 11:44, Nino Novak wrote: Hi, just considering to help filling the Wiki gaps regarding German documentation, I wonder if there's some advice. I tried to read the Wiki Editing Policy but found it much too complex, too prescriptive. Is it ok just to start and ask here if problems/

Re: [documentation-dev] Addition to Contributors page

2009-08-26 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
On 08/27/09 07:57, Leo Moons wrote: Hello Jean, This page is great and I hope it will attract some more contributors. Would it be an idea to mention here that translating existings docs is also an option? Translation is definitely an option. To and from whatever languages... For example,

Re: [documentation-dev] Issue 5232: clip art is lacking

2009-08-18 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
On 08/18/09 12:24 AM, Jean Hollis Weber wrote: From the documentation point of view, the only thing we can do is put some pointers to places where people can get clipart and tell them how to get it into the Gallery. The user guide chapters on graphics (esp. the one in Getting Started) talk abo

Re: [documentation-dev] Issue 28024: Writer: Word completion

2009-08-18 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
On 08/17/09 11:13 PM, Jean Hollis Weber wrote: As it appears nothing has been done on this issue, despite someone saying in 2007 that they were going to, I recommend we close this issue. The info is covered in the Writer Guide. Done, marked as FIXED. C. -- Clayton Cornell ccorn...@open

Re: [documentation-dev] Issue 28136 Database: structure and contents Example database)

2009-08-18 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
On 08/17/09 11:02 PM, Jean Hollis Weber wrote: The info in this draft document (from 2006) is covered in a similar way in the "Getting Started with Base" chapter of the Getting Started Guide, although the sample database created is different. I recommend we close this issue. Done, marked as

Re: [documentation-dev] New Setup Guide for 3.0 draft

2009-06-15 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
On 06/12/09 18:42, Per Eriksson wrote: Hello, I have looked through the chapter User Configuration from a Multi-user install under Windows Installation. It actually discusses the initial startup more than what the title suggests. I would rename this chapter to First Startup. Would anyone dis

Re: [documentation-dev] new member{s Bio.

2009-06-15 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
On 06/13/09 02:55, LuisFdo wrote: Joe, I´m Luis from Costa Rica too (Tibas) and i am having serious problems with openoffice. The point is that about 2 months ago i tried to install a new version of OpenOffice (3.2 I guess) and from that day I couldn´t work properly with this software. This is

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