I’m very interested in feedback about the usability of the entire setup. Is the CSS ok? Are the formatting rules ok? Is the documentation ok? Did you look for information on particular issues and did not find them? Or you did find them but it took you way too long?
I’d like to fix these issues. Edit this page to let me know about them. – AlexSchroeder
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Hi, Alex! I love OddMuse so far, but I’m having a little trouble. Where do I go to see how to do basics? I made my own little oddwiki here using the Startup, but I can’t even figure out how to create a new page. I’ve modified my home page, but how do I make a brand new unrelated page? And how do I enable comments? The Setup page says: “To enable comments, edit the CommentsPrefix? page, and put the prefix on the page (eg. “Comments on” or “Talk about”).” I think I understand the latter, but have no clue how to “edit the CommentsPrefix? page.” It’s not in the list on the Administration page. Help! Is it even intended to have a comment/talk page paired with every substantive page, like on Wikipedia? Thanks! Laura
Hi Laura! To create new pages, edit an existing page and add a link to the new page – even though it doesn’t exist yet. The resulting link with the questionmark will allow you to create the new page. The two simplest ways of creating links:
As to signing comments, there’s not special rule to sign. Just write your name. ;) – AlexSchroeder
Well, all the so-called “oddwikis” also act as interlinks, so you can write LaurasRepository:Laura to sign here. And you can sign using [[Laura]] on your own site LaurasRepository:HomePage. There’s an extension to translate ~~~~ into a signature (Oddmuse:Signature Extension) – but it is not installed for Oddwikis. Once you have your own installation, you can install the extensions you want, of course.
I regret to say that I have not compiled a list text formatting rules for the oddwikis – all I have is a list of links to various Oddmuse manual pages at the beginning of the Setup page. Here they are again: Oddmuse:Text Formatting Rules, Oddmuse:Link Pattern, Oddmuse:Markup Extension, Oddmuse:Usemod Markup Extension, Oddmuse:Image Extension. If somebody were to collect them and put them on a local TextFormattingRules page, that would be great. ;)
And thanks for the compliment. :) – AlexSchroeder