Notes for Editors

Editing page content is easy. Please follow the notes above the edit-toolbar (when editing a page) to get you started with dokuwiki.

Most entries are still barebone meta-information (only visible in box or index) with little extras or few comments.

There is a template of meta-information that we'd like you to fill in. The wiki page can extend as needed.

The meta-information is used to classify entries and provide specific layout independant information

• each meta entry is unique (eg. there can be only one screenshot per entry)
• it should be straight forward to fill in or update most meta links like title, desc(-ription), screenshot, link, author etc.
• Meta:version: latest stable version number
• Meta:releasedate: the release date of the latest version for a project or the date of the last update for a document (e. g. an online article). Format: yyyy-mm-dd (e. g. 2008-11-31). Please add this information to give other users a hint on how old a specific information/app is.

Tags are use for navigation, link-structure and feature-display. Tags form categories, the members of which are listed in apps/categories/name_of_tag, e. g. Snd

Re-assigning tags is not as easy as we would like to have! At the moment new categories are generated by using a new tag in any wiki page.

• every entry can have multiple tags (space separated)
• cut and paste category names (feel free to add tags not listed there if you see a need for them)
• use underscores within one tag, use space to separates tags: {{tag>first_tag second_tag and_a_third forth}}
• look up existing category tags and extend this list by hand editing after inventing new tags (this last step will soon be automated)
  • the category page corresponding to a tag is not automatically generated, but has a generate-template (just click create and save).

There is the possibility to use this bookmarklet to submit new apps more comfortably.

• All applications or projects have their own wiki page in /apps:all:name
• choose a name for the application
• visit the /apps:all:name directly (e. g. http://apps.linuxaudio.org/apps/all/nonexistant_page)
• edit the page to create it - we have a button for that, too:

• add tags and meta information as described above

Clear the page to delete it, but consider a redirect if:

• the page could be referenced by other pages
• the page name is an alternative name or shortcut for a project (e. g. clm for Common Lisp Music)

Clear the page (particularly the tags section could cause confusion) and add:

~~REDIRECT>namespace:page~~

E. g. you'd like to redirect “apps:all:sc3” to “apps:all:supercollider”:

~~REDIRECT>apps:all:supercollider~~

We are considering to use dokuwiki also for comments and blogging, but until we decide so, we encourage to add comments directly to a wiki page under an appropriate heading at the bottom.

use the wiki for suggestions or join discussion about ongoing work there.