Re: FYI: wiki transition in progress

[Carnë Draug]

On 16 November 2011 12:07, Fredrik Lingvall <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 11/16/11 12:47, Joanna Cheng wrote:
>>
>> 2011/11/16 Etienne Grossmann<address@hidden>:
>>>
>>>  For newbies editing a page, it would be nice if e.g. @ the bottom of the
>>> page were a cheat-sheet of the wiki's syntax. Is this feasible? (or have
>>> I
>>> missed this feature?)
>>
>> Not sure if it is possible, I don't think it is by default, but there
>> is probably an extension. If there's enough demand I guess I can look
>> for it.
>> https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/mediawiki/wiki/Help:Formatting
>> is a good reference for wiki syntax, in the meantime.
>> I have a decent amount of experience in wiki syntax so do let me know
>> if there's anything specific formatting-wise we want. I suspect before
>> long I'll need to write a custom template (or two. or five) :)
>
>
> Have a look at the Gentoo wiki templates:
> http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Index:Templates
>
> For example, the Code, Note, and File templates is probably useful for
> Octave too.
>
> /Fredrik

This is now done. Thanks to Joanna for the help. She also modified
Code so that giving a description to the code is now optional.

Here's a list of the templates available
http://octave.org/wiki/index.php?title=Special%3AAllPages&from=&to=&namespace=10
(ignore the ones ending in /Doc)

Carnë