[Pmwiki-users] intuitive learning

[Bronwyn Boltwood]

On Wed, 25 Feb 2004 01:15:29 +0100, Nils Knappmeier wrote:
> Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
>> On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 03:43:29PM -0500, Lloyd Budd wrote:

> There just came an idea to my mind that I'd like to share. The problem
> that I have with PmWiki at the moment is, that there seem to be so many
> functions that are either undocumented oder just hard to find. The stuff
> on the QuickReference on the other hand is something that I'm doing just
> like that, without thinking. To come to the point: How would it be to
> have the QuickReference randomly generated. Imagine having a pool of
> hints and tips (maybe as WikiGroup). And everytime somebody edits a
> page, one of these hints is chosen at random and displayed at the place
> of the QuickReference. Like: Did you know that could can create a link
> to your Profile using [[~name]] or  "Did you know that you can delete
> pages by just...?" (How does this actually work? I didn't know that was
> possible.)

Adding a tip of the day is a good idea, but don't let it replace the 
QuickReference!  Perhaps you, as an experienced PmWiki user, remember exactly 
how all the common markup works, but newbies like me and occasional posters 
don't.  Then throw in PmWiki's wonderful ability to have custom markup, and 
everyone has to open TextFormattingRules for the first two months to make posts 
whose markup isn't dead simple.

Not all these tips will be appropriate on the editing page, either.  Maybe 
today's tip -- or a link to it -- should be included and highlighted on the 
sidebar instead?

Bronwyn Boltwood