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Reviving the Wiki
CAD:
Page list is good.
I've not had much luck with table of contents. It is too hard to order contents easily.
I have found wiki trails work quite well to provide a logical order and can be used to create a table of contents automatically.
I don't know if tikiwiki has the functionality to do this. Unfortunately the mark up language is a lot different to what I use at work (pmwiki) and i'm still trying to work out its quirks. Im also trying to figure out what its feature set.
--- Quote ---Links from each PVD "menu option" / "menu bar option" straight to the relevant wiki page could be good though.
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This is coming - I have done it using pmwiki and it is really good.
http://www.videodb.info/forum_en/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=1692.0;attach=480
was created with pmwiki and dynamically created. Click "create pdf" button and it gathers all the pages in it "breadcrumb trail" and created a dynamic page, with links to different sections. Makes it easy to create a user manual.
BTW i have updated wiki home - completely ripped off forum home page (sorry). :-[
rick.ca:
--- Quote ---BTW i have updated wiki home - completely ripped off forum home page (sorry).
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That's not appropriate. This is the "home" of PVD. The home page of the wiki should be doing nothing to confuse that fact. Probably the most effective home page for the wiki would be a completed, properly organized table of contents. It could have a concise statement at the top that the site is the wiki for PVD, and that the home is here. There should also be an acknowledgement of the original creator and host of the wiki. That could be at the bottom of that page or in a separate "About the Wiki" page linked to the top of the table of contents.
Also make sure whatever changes you make do not adversely affect Russian users.
patch:
--- Quote from: CAD on September 02, 2010, 03:28:12 pm ---i have updated wiki home - completely ripped off forum home page (sorry). :-[
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I liked your previous home page, what happened to that.
Actually having two official PVD support sites is confusing which I think is the larger issue
CAD:
--- Quote ---That's not appropriate. This is the "home" of PVD.
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No probs i'll change it.
just trying to get some content up in a format that shows the potential.
I wanted one of the menu bars on left or right side to act as TOC.
That would probably need someone with admin right to do it.
rick.ca:
--- Quote ---I wanted one of the menu bars on left or right side to act as TOC.
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You can't do a proper TOC like this one in a menu bar, nor is that the purpose of it. If the home page is primarily a TOC, there can be no mistaking what is or what it is for. It's the sort of thing a user would expect to see when clicking a "wiki" link on an integrated site. Newcomers entering the wiki directly should be sent back here to learn about the software. The wiki is for those who are already users of the software.
If at all possible, any link on the wiki that directly or indirectly suggests home ("Home", "Personal Video Database," "PVD," etc.) should link back here. Similarly, any link that suggests a function already existing here (downloads, support, feature requests, etc.) should link directly back here. The wiki should be made to look and act—to the extent practical—as it were an extension of this site.
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