On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 4:38 AM, Michael Mol <mike...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 3:29 AM, Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> wrote: >> On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 11:37:49PM +0100, Sebastian Pipping wrote >>> On 03/17/2012 03:51 AM, Walter Dnes wrote: >>> > The page will be permanently "under construction", i.e. evolving as >>> > we find out more about how mdev works. >>> >>> Unless you want to maintain total control of the data flow I would >>> suggest turning that page into a new wiki page at >>> <https://wiki.gentoo.org/> to ease contribution to others and to >>> increase availability and accessibility of that content. >> >> Probably the best thing to do in the long run. I've never done any >> wiki editing/posting, so I'll take a day or 2 to read up on it. The >> help page looks rather complex. Or are there any volunteers here who >> can copy the contents of the web page to a wiki page? I'll gladly >> change my webpage to a pointer to the wiki page. > > First stab: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Mdev > > I don't know the Gentoo wiki's style policies, but I do know MediaWiki > reasonably well. I did take license to edit for language/linguistic > style, but not for substantive comment. Please go through and correct > anything that seems broken. It's almost 4:30AM where I am, and I > really ought to be sleeping, so I almost certainly mussed something > up. Pretty sure I switched styles about halfway through, too. > > You should find the MediaWiki syntax reasonably accessible; just click > 'edit' at the top of the page and compare what the 'raw' form looks > like with what the results look like. > >> >> On a tangent, is that a better tutorial on wiki pages anywhere? > > MediaWiki.org has the best content. Generally, you'd play around in a > sandbox page of your own (on whatever wiki site you have an account > on) to get a feel for things.
BTW, where would one go to get involved in organization of the wiki? I found myself wishing for templates for consistent formatting of things like files, one-liners and naming of ebuilds, but I don't think I ought to simply create the templates I'm looking for without talking with someone first. -- :wq
