Help talk:Editing pages

Propose move to Help: Editing
On Help talk:Editing I was giving some reasons (technical reasons really) why this page should be moved to "Help:Editing" (currently a redirect here) Add your comments over there. -- Harry Wood 09:52, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
 * I agree reverting redirect to "Help:Editing" as one from "hardcode names". --Kaganer 12:34, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
 * I don't think moving 10 or so translated pages is so hard. Since the purpose of this is to fill in the help on other sites, we should have content in the right places.  If the default installation calls it help:editing, then so should we. -Steve Sanbeg 21:07, 13 December 2007 (UTC)..

"How to edit a page" Information
In my opinion something goes completely wrong here. Each installed Wiki have a button in the lower right corner which opens the main page http://www.mediawiki.org. Now I see "How to edit a page", fine this seems the right place for "How to insert an image?", "How to make a two row table entry?", "How to remove the table of contents from a page?", "How to...", but oooohhhhh I see some rules, conventions or whatever. Sorry, no, I guess most of the users come to this page to find some infos "How to edit?" and not "What should I do." --Lastwebpage 17:32, 4 February 2008 (UTC)


 * You're obviously looking for the information we have at Help:Formatting. It's true that page has the most important quick reference material the people will go looking for. It is fairly prominently linked from this page. Maybe that section is a bit to wordy at the moment, certainly for some use cases, but I wanted to put forward some very general advice such as the "be bold" philosophy here. -- Harry Wood 17:48, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

Edit?
How can you edit a Wiki like this, this isn't like Wikipedia, or is this a Wikipedioa but for the soft ware? I am User:Akira-otomo, but I am not signed in.


 * "MediaWiki" is the name of the software which powers wikipedia.org and many other wiki projects all over the internet. This website, mediawiki.org, is all about the mediawiki software. This website is also powered by MediaWiki (meaning you can edit the pages in a similar way to editing wikipedia)
 * So that's confusing... but when you think about it, it makes sense. What other software would we use?! -- Harry Wood 10:37, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

Workday tests ERP as a service
http://www.computing.co.uk/itweek/news/2167874/workday-tests-erp-service

One of the most closely-watched software startups of recent years will come out of stealth mode on Monday [6 November] when Workday officially launches. Founded for former PeopleSoft chief Dave Duffield, the company is regarded as a litmus-test for the potential of enterprise applications running online.

While companies such as Salesforce.com and RightNow Technologies in customer relationship management (CRM) have shown that even large companies are moving to the on-demand model of hosted, pay-as-you-go applications, it is yet to be proven that broader enterprise applications will follow. Although they have service-based offerings, enterprise resource planning (ERP) giants such as SAP and Oracle have so far focused their attentions largely on the traditional software space.

Workday plans a web conference for Monday but on its website says it plans “a complete business management service” that taps XML, web services and service-oriented architecture capabilities and spans finance, procurement, supply-chain planning, billing and other classic ERP characteristics. The company has already released its Human Capital Management module.

Four of the firm’s five-strong leadership team are formerly of PeopleSoft, leading some watchers to expect the firm will have particular strength in human resources (HR).

“Given Dave Duffield's deep knowledge of the HR space, they will have good insight as to how to apply a software-as-a-service model to the HR problem,” said Zach Nelson, chief executive of NetSuite, an on-demand provider of business applications.

“The biggest challenge they will have will be the length of time it will take for them to build a complete solution.”

AMR Research data on growth in the online applications sector suggests that HR is currently a slower-growth area than some others. It rose 13 percent between 2004 and 2005, compared to 300 percent for ERP generally, 60 percent for CRM and 125 percent for sourcing/procurement, the analyst said.

Other firms are optimistic that Workday’s arrival will bolster the credibility of the sector.

“It’s great to see another player joining the business web,” said Steve Garnett, chairman of Salesforce.com in Europe. “It is further testament to the power of the on-demand multi-tenanted model, reinforcing the fact that organisations around the globe continue to abandon the old model of software licensing to reap the benefits of efficiency, innovation and reduced costs.”