wiki baffle

[systemshark]

Certainly it's debatable, and certain heavy hitters have opposed this, but I really think users need a manual, and the wiki is the manual. I don't ever want to get to the point that we RTFM people. But People should be directed to the wiki as an authoritative source, and be discouraged from not trying the wiki and just getting newbie questions answered on the forum...

In other words, pages should be written as Manual pages (Do this, this and this) rather than, Suggestion pages (you might try these two hundred different drivers, one of them might work...)

Hence my thinking when I wrote the Intitial set up guides.... somehow these should be 'sucked' into the wiki.

[zehd]

Hence my thinking when I wrote the Intitial set up guides.... somehow these should be 'sucked' into the wiki.

Hmmmm... Are you trying to get me sucked back in?

[steeb]

If you on a wikipage have a WikiTrail, you can get a single page containing all pages referenced by that Wikitrail. You get that single long page by adding "?action=publish" on the page containing the WikiTrail.

My point then is that is brilliant, if people did it, which they generally don't.

Now, when you have a single long page, containing many wikipages, you *could* print that page (as a pdf to save some trees) and get a printed section. If that section was the above mentioned manual page you would get what I refer to as a "printed manual".

As above, very few do!

As you can see, everything revolves around the Wikitrail, only the pages listed in the wikitrail will get into the "printed manual". This is why I created the wikitrail on the Manual page

I can see now why this could never work, and so I shush about this for ever!