Nice work jared,<div><br></div><div>1. I had a quick look at a few pages and they look good. If anyone has time for a thorough critique of a page or two, go ahead, but Jared is an experienced contributor so edit away!</div>
<div><br></div><div>2. Did mindrones and co have a process for structural changes to the wiki? If so, we should put Jared's suggestions through it. If not, I suggest we use this list for discussion of the proposed adds/removals. Perhaps after a week, we can announce the proposed changes to bf-committers to get buy-in from them as well.</div>
<div><br></div><div>3. Regarding sections, I agree it's tough to tell between a ==section 2== and ===section 3==. I would be open to suggestions for adding additional notation to distinguish them, however, this might be a bit of a project to retroactively refit the whole wiki to maintain consistency. A short script would probably do it, but someone has to write and test it. If wikimedia says one ==section1== per page, i'd be reluctant to ignore that unless there were very strong arguments for it.</div>
<div><br></div><div>kesten</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 3:05 AM, Jared Reisweber <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jaredr122@gmail.com" target="_blank">jaredr122@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hello, I've decided to return to help work on the wiki. (I'll try not to screw it up this time). It would be great to see it get finished next year.<br>
I've updated a bunch of mesh editing pages to reflect 2.6 and added some images:<br>
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basic editing, smooth, noise, shrink/fatten, vertex editing, mirror editing, face editing, mirror, edge editing, knife tool, bevel (most of these were empty).<br></div>There's a bit more work todo on some of these pages.<br>
It's kind of alarming to see how many page views some of these empty pages have...<br>
<br>I'd like to try to help update the pages to reflect all the 2.6 mesh editing features, however I think the organization of this section may need some reworking in the future (irrelevant pages, missing pages, etc.).<br>
Currently the pages in this section are the same as the 2.4 manual, but many new tools have been added.<br>
Right now, there are some sections for individual mesh tools, however only a portion of them. If mesh tools are going to have their own page, I would think all of them should probably have their own page, except for very similar tools, e.g. fill/beauty fill. However, I'm not positive that many of the mesh tools are significant enough to have their own page, though there should be some consistency. There may be some redundancy with some of the existing pages, for example, Vertex/Edge/Face Editing, where some tools on those pages are not exclusive to vertices/edges/faces.<br>
<br>Pages that should probably be removed from index, as they are now options in other tools:<br><div style="margin-left:40px">Spin dup, Subdivide fractal, subdivide smooth, Extrude dup(extinct?) </div>New tools I'm not sure where to put:<br>
<div style="margin-left:40px">Vertex connect, wireframe, inset, unsubdivide<br><br>
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Anyways, <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jYTZoT3l263fp36mbp8NAPK_sKgeJIMmacd0KOsHA18/edit" target="_blank">here is an outline</a> of all the existing core mesh tools arranged by roughly by category (red text indicates tools not yet documented). I did want to put out the possibility of having page links go to sections of pages, maybe. This would allow all the tools to be exposed on the index page, but not have to have so many small individual pages. Just a thought.<br>
<p></p><p>In the meantime, I will continue to help update this section as best I can.</p><p>Regarding page formatting, I keep seeing pages for things where there is a single =section1=, and all other sections are ==section2== and ===section3=== under the first section. It's visually very hard to tell the difference between a section2 and a section3. Is there a standard for how sections in pages should work? It would be nice if there was a better way of differentiating between section2/section3 and so on, like an indent, or something. According to the mediawiki docs, there should only be one section1, but I find that it makes pages difficult to read. <br>
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