[mythtv-users] Wiki formatting was: Mailing list and a Wiki... and a dessert topping

[David]

Kevin Kuphal wrote:

>>I've been trying to look through that Wiki that someone set up, and I 
>>hate it. Why is everything titled with NamesLikeThis ? Can't it even 
>>deal with spaces? It's very randomly structured, and I certainly 
>>don't see how it's useful. Oh, and there's a Guides section, then a 
>>HOWTO section. What's the difference? And I click on the first HOWTO 
>>(Widescreen) and get a page about creating a new page. I don't want 
>>that! I thought it said it was a HOWTO on getting Widescreen displays 
>>to work right. And there are sentences on that page like "To create 
>>your own templates, add a page with a name matching the regex 
>>"[a-z]Template$". Huh? Yeah, that's going to help a newbie figure 
>>things out. I'm sorry, but it all seems like a giant step backwards.
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>For the Wiki maintainer, some of the Wiki software has a RenamePage
>function.
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It's not one I know about in Moin - sounds sensible - I've had to get 
into Moin development/patching anyway so I'll see.

>  Can this be added to the mythtv.info wiki to correct the
>NamesLikeThis aspect as needed? 
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Moin uses so-called "CamelCase" to identify links without using any 
other syntax. It can be distracting but it's the way wiki's are.  Moin 
does have the option to insert spaces (see UserPreferences - oops, User 
Preferences) on output but you must type links without spaces when 
editing. I can't do anything about that.

It took me a while - I'd suggest persevering - I did.

>One in particular, the LiRc page is indeed
>annoying and renaming it would be in order.
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Mmm - suggestions?
(FWIW I don't like PvR350 - and I came up with it !!)

I think some of them are just little midgy-like annoyances that we can 
probably live with :)

BTW someone didn't like ArchiveToDvd 
<http://www.mythtv.info/moin.cgi/ArchiveToDvd?action=highlight&value=DeleteMe> 
so they fixed it earlier tonight :)

>Thanks,
>Kevin
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