On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 05:53:00AM +0100, Ted wrote:
> On Thu, 04 Apr 2002 17:36:00 BST, Simon wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 02:51:26AM +0100, Ted wrote:
> > ...
> > > I propose that we elect our first nlug official - "the nlug uploader"
> > > whose sole purpose in life will be to keep our web page up-to-date.
> > Or we could all do it together.
> >
> > I've created a topic on my (very new, quite content lacking) Wiki at:
> > http://the.earth.li/~huggie/cgi-bin/moin/NottLUG
> Looks promising. What tools do I need to have to make good use of Wiki
> pages. I tried with lynx and managed to get the gist of its contents -
> didn't try adding anything though, because after a brief scan of some
> introductory stuff I decided that it was not obviously easy to remove
> mistakes before they became world readable. What if I made a mistake?
> Shock Horror!
Well that is part of the idea. That people can put the beginnings of
something up and that using the "many eyes" principles all the spelling
mistakes and any other mistakes can be corrected by the next person.
The idea is that editing should be easy and that it should be easy to go
back to a previous version so that should someone just spam the whole
thing that you can roll it back.
You can use the RecentChanges link to see what has been updated.
> I can enable cookies in lynx - Wiki seems to need these
AIUI it needs one for the the UserPreferences stuff.
> but do not have java - do I need to run java to contribute to Wiki?
Nah, you definitely shouldn't need Java.
> Is there a single dense introductory document I can download in one
> go, rather than staying online while I click on each active link in
> turn? My rate of learning is slow and I have to pay for the phone
> calls:-(
Well you can grab http://download.sourceforge.net/moin/moin-0.11.tar.gz
and read the pages contained within in their raw format perhaps?
> I'm loathe to install something as humungous as netscape on my
> machine. Is this the best way if I want to contribute to Wiki?
I don't see why links/w3m/lynx couldn't be used to good effect really.
It is basically just text that you input.
Simon.
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