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| + | == Wiki-formatting blocks of text from files == | ||
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| + | Is there a convention or established best way to format a larger block of text that's used for displaying the contents of a file - for example, when documenting a configuration file or instructing the reader to enter a block of text into an editor? | ||
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| + | An example of what I'm talking about: | ||
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| + | <blockquote><code><pre><nowiki>Section "Screen" | ||
| + | Identifier "Default Screen" | ||
| + | Device "Intel Corporation Mobile Integrated Graphics Controller" | ||
| + | Monitor "Generic Monitor" | ||
| + | DefaultDepth 24 | ||
| + | SubSection "Display" | ||
| + | Depth 24 | ||
| + | Modes "1024x768" | ||
| + | EndSubSection | ||
| + | EndSection</nowiki></pre></code></blockquote> | ||
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| + | -- [[User:Midorigin|Midorigin]] 23:36, 1 December 2006 (CET) | ||
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| + | == Changing general editing help links == | ||
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| + | What do I mean by "Change links to pages that are less Wikipedia-psycho."? The page originally link spends a lot of time discussion Wikipedia policy about referencing sources, points of view, copyright, etc. | ||
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| + | In my opinion, ThinkWiki doesn't need to focus on policy as much, since it's intended for a much more narrow audience than Wikipedia. So, I linked to a couple of pages that start closer to the nitty-gritty of mark-up code. -- [[User:Pi3832|Pi3832]] 18:24, 7 December 2009 (UTC) | ||
Latest revision as of 19:24, 7 December 2009
In general, what is the prevailing philosophy on removing out of date information? Regarding the fglrx page, a lot of the stuff is regarding historical patches for old driver versions, and really ceases to be useful now. Nevertheless, there is possibly a rare situation where a person constrained to an older kernel / driver for hardware issues would need to reference this stuff. I guess the person could always dig through the diffs to find out what has happened in the past.
I think a moderate pruning approach is best, where really arcane / historical issues are simply deleted, and anything a user might realistically run into can be briefly summarized...
--gsmenden 24 May 2006 01:16 (EST)
Wiki-formatting blocks of text from files
Is there a convention or established best way to format a larger block of text that's used for displaying the contents of a file - for example, when documenting a configuration file or instructing the reader to enter a block of text into an editor?
An example of what I'm talking about:
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "Intel Corporation Mobile Integrated Graphics Controller"
Monitor "Generic Monitor"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1024x768"
EndSubSection
EndSection
-- Midorigin 23:36, 1 December 2006 (CET)
Changing general editing help links
What do I mean by "Change links to pages that are less Wikipedia-psycho."? The page originally link spends a lot of time discussion Wikipedia policy about referencing sources, points of view, copyright, etc.
In my opinion, ThinkWiki doesn't need to focus on policy as much, since it's intended for a much more narrow audience than Wikipedia. So, I linked to a couple of pages that start closer to the nitty-gritty of mark-up code. -- Pi3832 18:24, 7 December 2009 (UTC)
