Community discussion page

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What is This?

This (community page) is a default page on mediawiki, and I don't know why Novell deleted it from the navigation bar...

The "openSUSE community" is formed of

• The openSUSE core team consisting of Novell employees
• beta testers
• users who want to help on the wiki
• ...

The openSUSE wiki layout

What should be the aspect of the wiki. The graphical aspect was given by Novell and is acceptable (for me).

What I mean is, we should discuss the page tree here.

. . . or here User Documentation

Writers Tricks

• MediaWiki Help Site

Mediawiki features

Mediawiki has many features that new users will not immediately see. We can show some of them here.

A very important feature of mediawiki is a semi-automatic page indexing facility called "categories".

If a page has in it the tag [[category:XXX]]

• this tag is not visible while reading the page
• an index is created of all the pages of the same category
• one page can have as many categories as you like
• indexes are sorted alphabetically by page name.
• categories are accessible by the navigation bar (the left column)

the actual categories Special:Categories

NB: the category tag seems not to show on the opensuse navigation bar :-(

Saving or not saving

In a quiet environment, one can write one's doc, preview it and only when it's done save it.

Well. If you want to loose your doc, do so :-(.

There are two dangers:

• another person edits the same doc. when you wan to save, one of them is forbiden to do so (if not the work of the other is gone). So? copy/paste your work anywhere and come back later :-(
• you have a link in your page and you want to try it. Don't!!! you will probably loose your editing page and it's not saved.

So it's better to save often. Maybe the reader will be a bit puzzled if he comes at a very bad moment, but it's not critical.

Readers tricks

If one looks at the "navigation bar", that is the left column of the opensuse screen, he can see a "toolbox".

This toolbox is one of the best mediawiki feature.

• What links here

You are on one of yours pages and don't know if this page is linked anywhere, or you are lost in the page tree :-). Click here and you will know what pages have a link to the actual page.

• Related changes

I don't see exacltly what is the difference of the "related changes" page and the "history" one ?

• Special pages Gives you access to many interesting features.

User preferences

Beware of users preferences. I'm french and french as my prefered language, but when I'm explaining how the interface works, I no longer had the english subscript most readers wait for :-(. So back to the en langage interface :-(.

See Also

• The Help
• Who is who here?