[pmwiki-users] Conventions at pmwiki.org (Was: Comments pages vs ...)

[christian.ridderstrom at gmail.com]

On Thu, 1 Jun 2006, Ben Wilson wrote:

> On 6/1/06, christian.ridderstrom at gmail.com
> <christian.ridderstrom at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, 31 May 2006, Neil Herber wrote:
>>
>>> At 2006-05-31  09:27 AM -0500, Tegan Dowling is rumored to have said:
>>>> (:if exists {$Name}-Talk:)There is also a [[{$Name}-Talk |
>>>> discussion]] page used during the development of this {$Titlespaced}
>>>> page.(:ifend:)
>>
>> Now I'd like to partly contradict myself and say that I'd like to see 
>> more conventions used within PmWiki (and/or pmwiki.org). These 
>> conventions would be there to help things look (and be!) more 
>> consistent, making the site easier to use for casual users.

> I like this. Below Christian mentions a second step of putting in a 
> description in each page. I would go one step further and query whether 
> we should put a (:description:) in every page

Unfortunately (:description:) only really supports plain text. Patrick has 
suggested using anchors instead, although I might prefer something like
(:summary:)
...
(:summaryend:)

>> Maybe we should try and decide on some conventions and describe them on 
>> eg PmWiki/Conventions?
>
> I concur.

That's nice, if there were now only more of use we could actually start on 
a Conventions page ;-)

/C

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