Re: [GNC-dev] Wiki FAQ Page

2018-09-06 Thread Derek Atkins
Adrien Monteleone writes: > Yeah, those seem to be internal to the wiki, not an external broken > link. But then, if the page itself isn’t changing, just the named > anchor, it might not matter. The page still exists, so someone > clicking an FAQ link from a mailing list message will still get >

Re: [GNC-dev] Wiki FAQ Page

2018-09-05 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Yeah, those seem to be internal to the wiki, not an external broken link. But then, if the page itself isn’t changing, just the named anchor, it might not matter. The page still exists, so someone clicking an FAQ link from a mailing list message will still get dropped into the same page, but if

Re: [GNC-dev] Wiki FAQ Page

2018-09-05 Thread Derek Atkins
I feel like MediaWiki also has a way to fix that, too, but it may only work at a page level and not at an anchor level. c.f. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Redirect and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Section#Section_linking_and_redirects -derek On Tue, September 4, 2018 12:42 pm,

Re: [GNC-dev] Wiki FAQ Page

2018-09-05 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Broken links can be handled by permanent redirects in the web server’s .htaccess file. I think Derek would be the one to add those in. If you compile the list for him to copy & paste, I’m sure that would help. The end result is someone can click the old link from the mailing list and the server

Re: [GNC-dev] Wiki FAQ Page

2018-09-04 Thread David T. via gnucash-devel
Frank, I will begin with noting that I think that it was not entirely clear in my post that I was presenting only the top-level headings for the FAQ in this email; I was not prepared to re-align every level in the FAQ at this point. > On Sep 4, 2018, at 4:02 PM, Frank H. Ellenberger >

Re: [GNC-dev] Wiki FAQ Page

2018-09-04 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Hi David, at first thanks for starting with this task. Am 04.09.2018 um 16:43 schrieb David T. via gnucash-devel: > Now, on a meta-level, I think the primary headings here might be better > arranged as follows: > > 1. General Questions Perhaps the title should be more specific. Abstract About

Re: [GNC-dev] Wiki FAQ Page

2018-09-04 Thread John Ralls
> On Sep 4, 2018, at 7:43 AM, David T. via gnucash-devel > wrote: > > Hello, > > I am digging in to the FAQ page with an eye to rationalizing the accumulated > mess. My hope is to make it easier for uers to find answers to their > questions. > > Currently, the structure of the page does

[GNC-dev] Wiki FAQ Page

2018-09-04 Thread David T. via gnucash-devel
Hello, I am digging in to the FAQ page with an eye to rationalizing the accumulated mess. My hope is to make it easier for uers to find answers to their questions. Currently, the structure of the page does not accurately reflect the content of the questions. For example, the section

Re: Wiki-FAQ

2005-03-04 Thread Derek Atkins
David Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I did a little bit of fooling around at http://gnomesupport.org/wiki/index.php/GnuCashFaq Ignoring content for now, as I just cut and pasted, is that the general layout that you had in mind. The table of contents is generated automatically, so as

Re: Wiki-FAQ

2005-03-04 Thread David Harrison
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 17:30:54 -0500, Burress, Tobias [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I dunno if this is something you folks care about, or if 25 other people haven't told you this already, but that layout doesn't work very well in IE. (IE6 on Server 2003) I noticed that too. But since GNUCash only

Re: Wiki-FAQ

2005-03-03 Thread David Harrison
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 16:09:57 -0800, David Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 19:02:18 -0500, Josh Sled [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Right now the FAQs [1] are spread out over multiple pages. It can be hard to find a question, let alone an answer... more specifically, it's

Re: Wiki-FAQ

2005-03-03 Thread Josh Sled
On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 20:21, David Harrison wrote: I did a little bit of fooling around at http://gnomesupport.org/wiki/index.php/GnuCashFaq Ignoring content for now, as I just cut and pasted, is that the general layout that you had in mind. Yes. That is awesome. Thanks! ...jsled --