Re: [pmwiki-users] Re-thinking Intro to markup pages

2009-02-18 Thread Peter Bowers
I think that the new EditingForNewcomers page is a *great* resource... Thanks for putting the time energy into initially planning it and now implementing it, John! [polite applause in the background] On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 10:06 AM, john.ran...@affinity.co.nz wrote: A case can also be made

Re: [pmwiki-users] pmwiki-users Digest, Vol 44, Issue 41

2009-02-18 Thread philippe . krait
- The following is an automated response - to your message generated on behalf of philippe.kr...@thalesgroup.com Bonjour, je suis en congé entre le 13/02/09 midi et le 22/02/09 au soir. Je lirais probablement mes mails de temps en temps, mais en cas d'urgence, vous pouvez me

Re: [pmwiki-users] Re-thinking Intro to markup pages

2009-02-18 Thread Kathryn Andersen
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 10:07:19AM +0100, Peter Bowers wrote: [huge snip] Back on topic ... does the idea of 2 pages clarify things? (Assuming it was implemented in a way that actually works.) I'm thinking these pages won't get updated very often at all and so the potential issues of (1)

Re: [pmwiki-users] Re-thinking Intro to markup pages

2009-02-18 Thread Mark Paterson
I wondered if a newbie opinion would be useful in thinking of what to put on this page. My first day using PmWiki I got stuck because I had no idea how to get started. So I went to Google and found a link to the PmWiki site showing examples of how to format text in a wiki. This was great

[pmwiki-users] Resolving DOI's via InterMap rules

2009-02-18 Thread Karl Schilke
Hello, I'm trying to make an InterMap that will resolve Digital Object Identifiers (DOI's) for scientific papers. Every publication is assigned a unique DOI that can be resolved by a centralized dispatch viewer. For instance, a recent paper by Ghasemi, et al. (2007) has the DOI

Re: [pmwiki-users] Re-thinking Intro to markup pages

2009-02-18 Thread Sandy
Kathryn Andersen wrote: On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 10:07:19AM +0100, Peter Bowers wrote: [huge snip] Back on topic ... does the idea of 2 pages clarify things? (Assuming it was implemented in a way that actually works.) I'm thinking these pages won't get updated very often at all and so the

Re: [pmwiki-users] Resolving DOI's via InterMap rules

2009-02-18 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 09:57:08AM -0800, Karl Schilke wrote: I tried making an InterMap like this: DOI: http://dx.doi.org/$1 However, when I write something like 'Ghasemi, et al. (DOI:10.1021/la701126t) found that ...' in a PmWiki page, the URL I get is

Re: [pmwiki-users] Re-thinking Intro to markup pages

2009-02-18 Thread Kathryn Andersen
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 02:34:25PM -0500, Sandy wrote: Kathryn Andersen wrote: On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 10:07:19AM +0100, Peter Bowers wrote: [huge snip] Back on topic ... does the idea of 2 pages clarify things? (Assuming it was implemented in a way that actually works.) I'm thinking

[pmwiki-users] Rating cookbooks: a concrete suggestion

2009-02-18 Thread Eemeli Aro
Last month there was a rather active discussion on the list regarding rating cookbook recipes on pmwiki.org, but it kind of died down without any resolution. So, to re-start this topic I propose the following two changes to the pmwiki.org cookbook section. These draw on mainly three preceding

[pmwiki-users] Clean URL issue

2009-02-18 Thread njd
We are in the process of moving our wiki to a new server. I have managed to get the wiki to work on the new server, but the clean URL function will not work. I have tried the methods described on the Clean URL page with no success. Here are the details:1. Have checked through the apache2 conf

Re: [pmwiki-users] Re-thinking Intro to markup pages

2009-02-18 Thread john . rankin
I really haven't understood why using the (:markup:) markup is so terrible. Maybe I'm strange, but when I was first using PmWiki and reading the documentation, I was reading the documentation, not looking at the documentation source. It didn't even occur to me to do so. Thus I consider it