Amos Shapira wrote:
Hello,
After just over a year of introducing MediaWiki into my workplace (1.7
for now), the non-geek user base (read - sales and marketing) is
expected to grow and I need to address some shortcomings.
A couple of specific points my (geeky and technically capable) CEO
just p
Well - when I said hack the code yourself - I guess implicit in that was
find someone to do it or look for a mediawiki extension - one may very well
exist. If you're already invested in mediawiki wouldn't it be some effort to
move everything over?
Adi
2008/7/11 Amos Shapira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
2008/7/12 Amos Shapira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> Write a cheat-sheet that address these issues, mail it to all users,
>> and link to it from the wiki homepage. Other issues will crop up as
>> well (unforseen unforeseen problems) and they can be addressed in the
>> same manner. Do far you've identifie
On Saturday 12 July 2008, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> On Saturday 12 July 2008, Amos Shapira wrote:
> > 2008/7/12 Shlomi Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > > Well, the beauty of MediaWiki being free-and-open-source-software
> > > (FOSS) is that you are actually *able to do it* and *allowed to do
> > > that*. I
2008/7/12 Shlomi Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Interesting variation. I'm familiar with the Unix fortune version:
>
> {
> In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice,
> there is.
> }
I was re-paraphrasing from the Hebrew version I remembered, but yours
On Saturday 12 July 2008, Amos Shapira wrote:
> 2008/7/12 Shlomi Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > Well, the beauty of MediaWiki being free-and-open-source-software (FOSS)
> > is that you are actually *able to do it* and *allowed to do that*. If you
> > cannot
>
> Sure.
>
OK.
> > do it yourself, you
2008/7/12 Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> While I am usually all for making the software easier for
> non-technical users, you should not bend over backwards to help
> someone who is unwilling to learn something new in order to use a new
> tool. Write a very simple page (no more than one page) f
2008/7/12 Shlomi Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Well, the beauty of MediaWiki being free-and-open-source-software (FOSS) is
> that you are actually *able to do it* and *allowed to do that*. If you cannot
Sure.
> do it yourself, you can always convince your work to hire someone to do it
> for you, ra
2008/7/12 Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> 2008/7/10 Amos Shapira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> 1. Attaching files is a bitch.
>> 2. Formatting tables.
>>
> ..snip..
>> Any other suggestions?
>
> Write a cheat-sheet that address these issues, mail it to all users,
> and link to it from the wiki homepag
On Friday 11 July 2008, Amos Shapira wrote:
> 2008/7/10 Adi Eyal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > You could always hack the code yourself - the codebase was reasonably
> > clear when I last worked on it in 2004 - I'm sure it must be squeeky
> > clean by now.
>
> Thanks but no thanks.
>
> The last thing I h
2008/7/10 Amos Shapira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> 1. Attaching files is a bitch.
> 2. Formatting tables.
>
..snip..
> Any other suggestions?
Write a cheat-sheet that address these issues, mail it to all users,
and link to it from the wiki homepage. Other issues will crop up as
well (unforseen unforese
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