Registry Topics

[Tony Linde]

Ray,

I've just noticed that you've added stuff to part of the IVOA wiki -
sorry if this message sounded patronising - I assumed you were
unfamiliar with wiki's.

Cheers,
Tony.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tony Linde [mailto:ael at star.le.ac.uk] 
> Sent: 30 January 2003 21:08
> To: 'Ray Plante'
> Cc: registry at ivoa.net
> Subject: RE: Registry Topics
> 
> 
> Hi Ray,
> 
> Any registered member can create new pages in a wiki site. If 
> you edit any page and add a reference to your new page in the 
> form of a wiki word (starts with capital letter and has at 
> least one more capital in it - usually capitalized words 
> strung together, eg IvoaRegistry, IvoaResReg, RayPlante etc.) 
> wen you save the page you'll see that word with a question 
> mark after it. Click on the question mark and it'll create 
> the new page for you then you just need to add the text using 
> the wiki shorthand or html.
> 
> If you're not sure what to do, check out the tutorial, manual 
> and other stuff referenced from the Twiki page:
>   http://www.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/TWiki/WebHome
> especially the one-page primers.
> 
> To try stuff out, use the Test web:
>   http://www.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/Test/WebHome
> 
> You'll see some samples there of pages that haven't yet been 
> created (TestTopic1, TestTopic2 etc - all with question marks 
> after them). Click on the question mark after one of these to 
> create a new page and then try doing the tutorial:
>   http://www.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/TWiki/TWikiTutorial
> 
> As it says, it'll only take 20 minutes or so. It seems 
> strange at first but is dead simple once you've created a 
> couple of pages. Another way to get familiar with the wiki 
> style etc is to click Edit on existing pages and see how the 
> page has been written.
> 
> Once you're okay with the wiki, just choose whichever page 
> you want to have a link to your new page, edit it to include 
> the new page name (as a wiki word), save it, click on the 
> question mark and there you'll have a blank page ready to fill.
> 
> Hope this helps out. I've copied this to the Registry mailing 
> list as well in case others are unfamiliar with the wiki.
> 
> Cheers,
> Tony.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ray Plante [mailto:rplante at poplar.ncsa.uiuc.edu]
> > Sent: 30 January 2003 15:55
> > To: Tony Linde
> > Subject: Registry Topics
> > 
> > 
> > Hi Tony,
> > 
> > I trust your London trip was full of good fortune.  I had a
> > question about 
> > the registry wiki site.  Is it possible for users to add 
> > topics, or is 
> > that restricted to the moderator/administrator?  In any 
> > event, would it be 
> > appropriate to add a requirements topic?  Or should we 
> > combine that with 
> > the RegistryUseCases topic?  I'd like to post our 
> > requirements document 
> > somewhere.
> > 
> > cheers,
> > Ray
> > 
> > 
>