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Jane Weideman wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Sat, 2005-07-09 at 01:09 +0800, Steve Torrefranca wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Philipp Schröder wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Hi Steve,
Steve Torrefranca wrote:
Since you have already created an account for yourself, it would be
great if you could try to get it done yourself, rather than having to
rely on Jane, if you don't mind! :-)
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<pre wrap="">sorry about that. at first glance wiki looked like a puzzle, but i have
done it.
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<pre wrap="">Let me know if you find it hard to use. I'm curious whether new users
find Wikis difficult!
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<pre wrap="">unfortunately i have been doing web development and design for more than
6 years, but i have never contributed to a wiki. i find my first wiki
unnatural, sorry. it took me less than a second to figure out blogging,
or on-line forums, or other similar services but with wiki I have to
read your instructions. to a web developer, this may be, just may be, a
design problem.
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This is an interesting point, at the WCCE (World Conference on Computers
in Education) last week the debate around blog/wiki came up. It was
interesting to note that teachers and less technical people almost
always prefer blogs, and developer and the more technically minded seem
to prefer the wiki format...
We were debating which to include in Edubuntu at our Summit, and I was
pretty adamant about a wiki being better - now I wonder if the barrier
to entry is too high for the average, less technically inclined user
(which I gather the majority of teachers will be)
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<pre wrap="">also when i was writing the page i needed to understand and keep in mind
some formatting scripts. That is alright i guess. but i think
supporting html tags or putting [bold][underline] buttons would have
been better and easier.
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I also found this slightly confusing at first, but I think I figured it
out pretty quickly, but then I tend to still need to look up most html
tags (save the very common and obvious ones)...
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What people dont seem to understand is that there are many tools
availble for wikis inorder to make them much more easy to edit, such as
the set of firefox extensions which allow many of the commonly used
tags to be inserted simply by pressing a button. I implore all of you
to atleast look into if not try these out: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.getfirefox.com">www.getfirefox.com</a><br>
and the extensions:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=351">https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=351</a><br>
- Eldo<br>
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