Re: Moving to live.gnome.org - participate!

[Wolfgang Stoeggl <c72578 yahoo de>]

--- Lars Clausen <lars raeder dk> schrieb:

> On Sat, 2006-11-25 at 08:34 +0100, Lars Clausen
> wrote:
> > I'm getting very tired of the cumbersome way the
> current web page is
> > updated (checking out all of the www.gnome.org
> webpages???), so upon
> > discovery of the live.gnome.org Wiki, I have begun
> a transition to have
> > our homepage entirely there.  I have moved the
> front page, the rest of
> > the pages remain to be moved -- if anyone wants to
> give a hand, that
> > would be appreciated.
>
> I probably should elaborate a bit.  It doesn't take
> any other tools than
> a browser to transfer the old pages. You'll just
> need to create an
> account on http://live.gnome.org/UserPreferences,
> and then you can login
> and start editing pages right in the browser.  The
> Wiki formatting used
> is simple and described in the page and more
> extensively behind links. 
>
> I'd prefer if we at first transfer the pages pretty
> much as they are,
> just updating to use Wiki formatting where possible.
>  Beware that while
> the GUI mode can be helpful, it sometimes thinks it
> can do more than is
> actually possible with the Wiki syntax.  The
> DiaDocumentation pages
> should serve as an example of how to transfer a page
> -- we don't need to
> keep the exact formatting, but all of the text and
> links in a readable
> manner should be retained, even if somewhat
> outdated.  We can update
> them later.
>
> There are links at the bottom of the Wiki pages to
> empty pages
> corresponding to the pages on the old site
> (http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia).  If you've been
> wanting to do
> something for Dia, or just on a lark want to help,
> feel free to go in
> and Wiki!
>
> -Lars

Good idea to start this Wiki.
However, widespread Wiki vandalism should be prevented
somehow.
The sooner the better...
Regards,
Wolfgang



                
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