[2024-feb-29] Sad news: Eric Layton aka Nocturnal Slacker aka vtel57 passed away on Feb 26th, shortly after hospitalization. He was one of our Wiki's most prominent admins. He will be missed.
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>I think that depends on whether it is decided to place the wiki under a slackware.com subdomain or slackdocs.org is going to be favoured. If it is not a slackware.com site I would not want to use a full set of Slackware visuals. \\ --- // | >I think that depends on whether it is decided to place the wiki under a slackware.com subdomain or slackdocs.org is going to be favoured. If it is not a slackware.com site I would not want to use a full set of Slackware visuals. \\ --- // | ||
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The front page says that you must create an account to be able to edit the wiki... OK, but where is the link to create such an account? I love Slackware and I'd love to participate! (and I have my own Slackware wiki as well: http:// | The front page says that you must create an account to be able to edit the wiki... OK, but where is the link to create such an account? I love Slackware and I'd love to participate! (and I have my own Slackware wiki as well: http:// | ||
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**PLEASE** do not edit the Main Page without consulting someone on the admin/ | **PLEASE** do not edit the Main Page without consulting someone on the admin/ | ||
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- | >Re: slackpkg on main page -- myeh... it's not necessary, but it is something a beginner would need to use after installing their system. | + | >Re: slackpkg on main page -- myeh... it's not necessary, but it is something a beginner would need to use after installing their system. |
- | >Re: slackpkg on main page: Noting slackpkg on the main page is not necessary since it should be documented in the install article and will be covered in all package management tutorials. | + | >Re: slackpkg on main page: Noting slackpkg on the main page is not necessary since it should be documented in the install article and will be covered in all package management tutorials. |
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+ | Been thinking this over. What we might want to have instead is a chapter " | ||
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+ | I think it would be a good idea to add a link to the beginners_guide following this link: | ||
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+ | Like so: | ||
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+ | >Thanks for this suggestion, Mario. Oh, I've moved your post to the bottom of the page (older at top - newer at bottom). Cheers! | ||
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+ | I've been wondering, if there is a good article (example: [[http:// | ||
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+ | I am not in favour of copying whole articles into our wiki, except if the person doing the copying is also the author of the original article. You can use another article as the source or inspiration for your own article here, and if you are re-using parts of it, it is good practice to mention it in the **Sources** section. \\ --- // | ||
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+ | I tried sending an email to the mailing-list twice this morning, but the connection failed. It was about Hazel' | ||
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+ | > Found out the email did get sent, after all. m( --- // | ||
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+ | VERY NICE!!! I like. :) --- // | ||
+ | > Thank you :-) I also sent an email to the users list as a wake-up call \\ --- // | ||
+ | >> Great stuff!!! Eric, are you planning to send an extended statistics pdf on a regular basis? It'd be interesting to have it, say, on a monthly basis. Thank you. --- // | ||
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+ | ==== Someone please fix ==== | ||
+ | Someone please fix the [[howtos: | ||
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+ | >It looks like either your caching was off or alienbob fixed the issue with the multimedia page not picking up your article. The howto topic pages are just displaying all articles in their sub namespaces and your article is now appearing. | ||
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+ | >> I did not have to fix that page, it was OK. I fixed the **other** page, [[howtos: |