From: Alan Horkan (horkana@tcd.ie)
Date: Sun Jun 30 2002 - 12:55:16 EDT
I know virtually nothing about Twiki, so some of these points may be
redundant and very easily answered but i am gonna ask anyway :)
Something about Twiki that immediately bothers me, i am not sure what
exactly but it think part of it is Twiki is just a bit cluttered and
unclear so anything you can do to clean up the page (like removing the
Twiki graphic) might help.
Is it possible to get TWiki to show a whole bunch of things on one page?
(ie the entire FAQ if it is not already too long).
Also in a similar vein Twiki seems to have lots of layers, menus and
submenus, so being able to view all the topic listings on one page would
be helpful.
Jeremy Davis has lots of great information on his website (kudos)
http://abiword.pchasm.org/tips/#Tips
Hopefully he or someone else will copy it across to Twiki.
Sincerely
Alan Horkan
On Sun, 30 Jun 2002, Randy Kramer wrote:
> Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2002 08:37:11 -0400
> From: Randy Kramer <rhkramer@fast.net>
> To: abiword-dev@abisource.com, abiword-user@abisource.com
> Subject: Re: Twiki stuff (Attn. RK)
>
> Mark,
>
> Thanks, its all good advice, especially the links to renamed pages. It
> just takes time -- I'll try to do some of it as I find time.
>
> What I did the other day was a fairly massive renaming. (Just trying to
> make excuses -- and I was wondering how much negative feedback I might
> get about the prefixes -- thought I might have to move back to the old
> setup -- what do you think?) I was sort of hoping not too many people
> had bookmarks or anything similar. If I rename in the future I'll put a
> page back with the old name saying "Moved to <newpagename>" -- that's
> what I try to do on WikiLearn. (It's a shame TWiki doesn't do that
> automatically, but there has been some discussion about that.)
>
> I also agree about shortening the names.
>
> Of course, it is a wiki, so if you find some time, feel free to jump in
> and help.
>
> Mark Gilbert wrote:
> > Eh, first off, with all due respect, please remember to place symlinks
> > (or some twiki-specific equivalent) when renaming topics so that old
> > links aren't broken. Example: BugPolicy was moved to FaqBugPolicy.
>
> The only twiki-specific equivalent I've thought of is recreating the
> original page with a "Moved to <new wiki page>" note.
>
> >
> > Also, consider making sure that topic names are as open as possible.
> > Like, LinFaqTrueTypeFontsOnLinux applies to unix in general, not just
> > linux.
>
> I was renaming other people's topics -- do all the topic under LinFaq
> apply to all Unixes, or do only some? (Leading to do we need two
> categories, like LinFaq and UnxFaq, or do we change them all to UnxFaq
> (or do you have a better suggestion -- UnixFaq isn't too long).
>
> > And, on the subject of LinFaqTrueTypeFontsOnLinux, is it against wiki
> > culture/tradition/chivalry/whatever to make the topic names a wee bit
> > more concise?
>
> No.
>
> > Example: LinFaqTrueTypeFontsOnLinux is long and
> > redundant. Since we already know it's for linux because of "LinFaq",
> > could we drop the "OnLinux"?
>
> Sounds good to me.
>
> > Just a couple suggestions, to be freely ignored
>
> I don't want to ignore them. I may not act on them immediately, and I'm
> interested in any major objections or alternate suggestions, as well as
> help to make the changes.
>
> regards,
> Randy Kramer
>
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