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)..

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"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)

(Editing WIKI can be a useful tool for interactive learning settings, especially for teachers and students; this is me contribution to my CR111 Digital Folio Assignment.)Italic text

Links to Wikipedia, sense of the help section
I still not understand the sense of the complete help section from "Mediawiki", sorry. For e.g. Help:Formatting a wikipedia link to: w:en:Wikipedia:WikiProject_User_Page_Help/Do-It-Yourself/Formatting_Text there are some nice picture, yes, but useful infos? The useful infos are on m:Help:Editing but no link to this useful site...

Another one, on the same site I found some words like "Some HTML tags are allowed in MediaWiki..." With a link to wikipedia HTML. WTF??? What is the relation between "How to edit a wiki" and the HTML history? I want to know how to use HTML in the mediawiki software. And no link to m:Help:HTML in wikitext, again.

However, for which kind of users was this help section created? --Lastwebpage 17:08, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

Is it possible to create a user-interface on a subpage of my Wiki?
Hey, I'd like to know if it is possible to create a user interface to insert data on a page in our study program's Wiki. I want the Wiki page to get easier to be edited. for expample it could look like below Short Internship description: Duration: Institution: Description of the internship: Next to each of the categories I would like to have a field where the information can be inserted and then it would be translated into Wiki language. An additional question is, if it would then be possible to take the first line (Short internship description) and let it be automatically be displayed on the main page in a table or in a news feed? Has anyone an idea on one of those crazy ideas? I'm not an expert... Thanks... --Timsen 16:45, 22 January 2011 (UTC)


 * You'll need to research the following further, but I believe that Extension:Semantic MediaWiki together with Extension:Semantic Forms allow you to do all that. For example, if you visit http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Case_Studies/Flickr and click the "View form" link at the top, it allows you to edit the subpage by filling a predefined form. If you visit the parent page http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Case_Studies, and examine the code, you'll see that the tables are automatically created based on a query. This seems to be exactly what you need. However, Semantic MediaWiki is large and is about much more than just using forms, so there should be much to install and learn first, before you have a working result. Hamilton Abreu 22:07, 22 January 2011 (UTC)

Special permissions for editing
The goal is to prevent information lose in a documentation:

Is there a way to limit editing to certain functions for some users? Example: I have a group "Add" which are only allowed to add content/lines to an existing page, they may not edit or delete existing content.

Is it possible to make edits only apear after they have been validated? Example: Someone edits a page and saves it, but his edit is not visible in the current version of the page until it was validated by a user with a certain permission to do so.

Thanks

I suggest some more links for Categories, other functions
Being new to Mediawiki, I apologize if this has been covered elsewhere: I read the previous comment about the help:formatting page, but I have a different concern.

I recommend that this help page, which is the one new users first see, be amended to add links which explain Mediawiki's Categories and similar style and layout rules, plus the basics of user rights, etc. I only want the links, not the content, and I think others will agree that they are appropriate on the "splash" page of the help section.

A page that tell me to "Be Bold" isn't much help when a new volunteer administrator has to get up to speed quickly, and please don't reply that the links and info I need are to be found somewhere else: I wound up here, not somewhere else, and I feel that the links to the information should be here.

Thanks for reading this. I appreciate your time.

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how do i edit the "create account" page on my own mediawiki site?
i can't figure out how to do this with the current help files? i want to change the create account page for new people to signup. RobbinsDick (talk) 12:41, 28 April 2013 (UTC)

Como criar tópico
Galera como eu faço para criar um tópico, e colocar fotos, imagens e videos?

Show Preview and Save page does not function
I have a strange problem. I operate the site www.baitiangong.info. On my main_page, I am only able to Show Preview and Save Page if I edit by clicking on the individual edit buttons at the top of my header. This is fine for most purposes.

But when I want to edit the paragraph above the table of contents which I have to access by clicking the edit tab on the top right of the screen, I will not be able to Show Preview or Save Page. I have only 13 days of experience with Mediawiki. Have I somehow added some extensions that is not compatible with the latest version 1.21.2. I recently move my wiki directory, manual i.e., one-by-one, from the root directory to /w to use short URL. Therefore, my /public_html only contain cgi-bin folder, w folder,error_log.txt and robots.txt. Have I moved files I should not move.

Please advice.

Revising the page
I have been asked by Nemo to review this page and revise it. Since it has already been marked for translation I intend to start a draft sub-page to play about with. Lloffiwr (talk) 18:00, 9 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Draft ready for review and further contributions by others. Lloffiwr (talk) 21:21, 9 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks! In theory Meta-Wiki pages can't be copied here like that because the Help namespace here is in PD, or have you rephrased them sufficiently so as to be free from their original copyright? --Nemo 19:42, 12 March 2014 (UTC)
 * No I wasn't aware of the problem with copying from meta. No wonder the project to move help pages from meta to MediaWiki is so slow. I will undo the copy and draft myself when I get the time. Lloffiwr (talk) 14:28, 22 March 2014 (UTC)

hi, I'd like to make some graphical design editing to my mediawiki. wherecan I find the script docs that define the page layout design, icons na buttons.

Page contains bad markup--please fix!
I thought it might be a browser issue, but it happens in IE9, 10 and 11, and only on this page as far as I can see. There are several places where what I presume is unprocessed wiki markup coming through, such as


 *  you can enter a short note in the "Summary (?):" box 

and


 *  help-starting-page>Special:MyLanguage/Help:Starting a new page|Help:Starting a new page 

Please can someone fix the page--this is not what we want to be putting off new users with when they come to this page for help!! Thanks.


 * Just some simple vandalism; reverted, thanks for mentioning. Next time check the history and use the "undo" buttons. ;-) --Nemo 08:42, 9 July 2014 (UTC)

Es difícil definir lo que es exactamente la tecnología. En principio el término se refiere literalmente al estudio de la técnica, esto es, a todos los conocimientos teóricos o prácticos que envuelven a las disciplinas científicas. Según esta definición, para que algo sea una tecnología como tal, debe tener un uso en un determinado campo. En el momento en que deje de usarse, dejaría de ser tecnología. Como eso es bastante difícil de catalogar, solemos hablar de tecnologías en desuso u obsoletas. No hace falta irnos a la época de la invención del fuego para ver tecnologías que han sido reemplazadas por otras: lo que para nuestros abuelos era tecnología para nuestra generación puede ser un anacronismo sin utilidad práctica. Existe otro concepto muy usado en la actualidad como son las nuevas tecnologías, que comprenden varios campos de reciente creación como la informática, las telecomunicaciones… De todos modos en la sociedad moderna conviven tecnologías tan antiguas como la rueda con las más nuevas.

La importancia de la tecnología va ligada casi siempre a los usos prácticos que tenga. De hecho, una tecnología muy costosa, o muy complicada, no suele triunfar, porque su implantación es muy complicada. Es por eso que a veces tecnologías que parecen rudimentarias triunfan sobre otras mucho más ‘modernas’. Sea como sea, la tecnología suele estar en continuo avance, siendo en general el desarrollo práctico de nuevas ideas concebidas por las disciplinas científicas, y por tanto, va muy ligada al concepto de innovación. En la vida de la sociedad moderna, la tecnología es algo indispensable. De hecho, la mayor parte de los esfuerzos científicos se centran en la creación de nuevas tecnologías que cubran las necesidades de la sociedad y consigan elevar el nivel de bienestar. Eso sobre el papel, porque no siempre la tecnología se usa con el fin previsto ni se diseña para mejorar la vida humana (existen excepciones importantes, como las tecnologías bélicas), pero siempre una tecnología cubre una necesidad. Sin necesidad no es precisa la tecnología, y por tanto, no será usada. Ligado a las grandes necesidades de la humanidad, siempre han aparecido tecnologías de gran importancia. Para la necesidad de comunicación humana surgieron--Gerardorb (talk) 20:17, 24 November 2014 (UTC) el teléfono, la televisión, la radio, Internet… Con las necesidades de salud, han surgido avances en cirugía, medicina general, análisis clínicos… Con las necesidades económicas han surgido nuevas tecnologías industriales, tecnologías de procesos, de extracción.. Y así podríamos seguir hasta el infinito, porque no existe ningún ámbito en el que la tecnología no esté presente: sea en el económico, industrial, social, político, científico, legislativo, educativo… etc, en cuanto permite una mejora del resultado final o una simplificación de los procesos intermedios. Muy asociado a esto se halla el concepto de BAT (Best Avaliable Technology), o mejor tecnología disponible, en español. En este término se basan muchos de los conceptos modernos de la ecología y la sostenibilidad, mediante la mejora continua de las tecnologías usadas en la industria para evitar la contaminación. Este término anterior ha cambiado en los últimos años el antiguo concepto de tecnología como incrementadora del rendimiento final. Antes las nuevas técnicas buscaban directamente el mayor beneficio posible, sobre todo por ser desarrolladas en el 99% de los casos por y para empresas que buscaban un rendimiento económico. Los grandes problemas posteriores a la revolución industrial, incluyendo no sólo los sociales, sino los medioambientales, son un claro ejemplo de lo erróneo de ese planteamiento. Hoy en día se intenta no sólo incrementar la producción, sino que las nuevas tecnologías cuiden otros aspectos, como el social, el bienestar de los propios trabajadores o el beneficio ambiental.