A couple of wiki projects I've been working on.

[Zach Kriesse]

On 1/7/2011 9:12 PM, Jared Norris wrote:
> Good afternoon UBT&  Docs,
>
> I have recently been working on a couple of projects for my LoCo's
> wiki [1] which I think have a fair bit of overlap for other teams so I
> thought I could share them, sorry for cross posting but I thought they
> were relevant to both teams. Before I start please realise I'm no guru
> just wanted to pass on information as I learnt it, please feel free to
> correct or suggestion improvements.
>
> The first project I borrowed heavily from UBT was a team wiki header
> and found a solution to an error that I want to help fix "upstream" in
> UBT and possibly other teams with the same issue. This is best
> described with screen shots as the error is in how different web
> browsers render the same wiki page. If you look at [2] you will see
> how it renders in firefox and if you look at [3] you will see how it
> used to render in chromium (extra white space and square corners). I
> found this out by mistake by accident but it bugged me more than just
> a little so in my usual style I went in search of an answer. I ended
> up in the #ubuntu-website channel and asked them about the issue. I
> found someone who knew more than me about how all this is accomplished
> by the nick of "Turl" (credit where it's due) who was able to get it
> working for me. The best way to show the solution is the diff pages
> [4] where you can see changes to remove the extra white space and then
> [5] shows how to also fix up the borders. Apparently Opera and other
> browers will render differently again so it would need other
> alterations which I don't currently have.
>
> The second project was a nuts and bolts wiki how to create/edit a page
> [6]. The reason I started this was there were lots of wiki pages out
> there with syntax examples, and how to do this and that but nothing
> that I could find (and I hope I haven't re-invented the wheel) that
> was really basic. I see this as a problem for people who are not
> confident in using wiki pages (like I was, it took me a couple of
> weeks to work up courage to go and edit something) and this hinders
> some users ability to contribute to any and all projects that use
> wikis. I realise the page itself and the "blank" page [7] I link to in
> it would need small customisation for each team but it might be useful
> to some other projects out there.
>
> Sorry for all the links but I think it helps to have the full story.
>
> [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AustralianTeam
> [2] http://www.flickr.com/photos/45015261@N04/5282457953/
> [3] http://www.flickr.com/photos/45015261@N04/5282457709/
> [4] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AustralianTeam/Includes/HeaderMain?action=diff&rev2=35&rev1=34
> [5] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AustralianTeam/Includes/HeaderMain?action=diff&rev2=36&rev1=35
> [6] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AustralianTeam/Projects/WikiHowTo
> [7] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AustralianTeam/Projects/Blank
>
> Regards,
>
> Jared Norris
> (aka head_victim)
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JaredNorris
>
Extremely find job Jared...job well done!

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Cheers!

~zkriesse