[proposal] Newbie-FAQ or Everything You Always Wanted To Ask About Ubuntu But Were Afraid To Ask

[Lehofer, Meinhard]

Giovanni Sce schrieb:

>Quoting Oliver Grawert <hostmaster at grawert.net>:
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>>hi,
>>Am Mittwoch, den 22.12.2004, 21:17 -0800 schrieb Chuck Vose:
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>>>I hate to see people putting up guides in places other than the wiki,
>>>but I like the idea.
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>>i can just agree here....
>>put it to the other official docs on the wiki, its nice to have
>>everything in one place, a place where the core team can review things
>>for correctness or adjusts bits and pieces that have changed is
>>certainly better than spreading all the info in different places on the
>>web.
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>>ciao
>>	oli
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>I agree, we should keep expandind the wiki. I'm in for the task.
>I was thinking just to add informations (like step by step) and
>sections under the user guide
>https://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/EverydayUsage
>or https://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/DocumentationArea
>speaking of what I see there is a documentation mailing list
>to which the interested people should subscribe (I guess).
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>Ciao,
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>Gio
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I believe a newbie/windows migrant FAQ or guide should be written from
scratch, to keep focus on a newbies needs. So I do not think adding
information to existing Wikipages helps, on the contrary it would demand
to leave information from existing Wikipages out.


The Wikipages are, of course, an online document, consisting of many,
rather small, linked articles. Is there an easy way to print a whole
section or subsection, not just a single article? Keep in mind, that at
least two major paper sizes are out there (US letter, A4). A single pdf
file might have the advantage here. But easy printing is, in my opinion,
essential. During the installation a User does not have access to
Computer stored Information. Even later, if something breaks (X-Server),
he could access his papers.


I also feel, the wiki does not look very flashy. When dealing with
users, who don't really understand what they have to do, a better look
and feel might be helpful to make them feel welcome and support their
learning Linux experience. All Wikipages I found were left aligned, can
you use justified Alignment?


Having one single, central place, where you can find all available help
is a VERY strong point for the wiki.

cu,
meinhard