[Pmwiki-users] intuitive learning

Lloyd Budd lloyd
Tue Feb 24 18:02:14 CST 2004


On 24-Feb-04, at 19:15, Nils Knappmeier wrote:

> Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 03:43:29PM -0500, Lloyd Budd wrote:
>>
>>> I am wondering if many people customize PmWiki:EditQuickReference 
>>> much ?  Just getting started, and it does not seem well laid out, or 
>>> include the items that I am finding myself trying to remember again 
>>> and again.  Possibly, this would be a good item to work on together.
>>>
>>
>> Feel free to modify the EditQuickReference page on pmichaud.com--if
>> I generally agree with any changes made then they'll automatically 
>> make it into the next release.   The current EditQuickReference page 
>> is mostly
>> based on something I threw together a long time ago.
>>
>>
> 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.
This is an interesting idea, but likely most users (as opposed to the 
admin) would not be using most of the functionality, so random "quote" 
likely would not be ideal -- at least not for my uses ;-)

> 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]]
{{~name}} ;-)

> or  "Did you know that you can delete pages by just...?"
>   (How does this actually work? I didn't know that was possible.)
Are you genuinely asking a question here ? or is part of your example ?




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