[Bf-docboard] Bf-docboard Digest, Vol 50, Issue 3

[Roger Wickes]

my only comment regarding the images is that it would be very nice if all language versions of the wiki used the same image. Therefore then, the same image would be used perhaps 10 times, once for every language. However, then when a new version comes out, the new page uses a new version of the image; categorization might make it easier for the foreign language editor to find the new version; alternatively they can just look and copy the link to the image. 

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> 1) How to document Blender with screenshots always up-to-date with
> the current Blender release?
>
> We can "wrap" images into templates, and then just insert something like
>
> {{Image/Buttons window-curve tools 1 panel|2.48}}
>
> or
>
> {{Image/3D window-Radial menu|2.51}}


This may be a nice idea but I don't think it's worth it.

With all your categorizing and templating and sorting and the like, you won't 
get a page more to be written and finished. 

I may write this in vain, because obviously nobody is listening to me, but:
-> it is very simple to write a complete and up to date manual. 
-> it takes four years and two people working 10 hours per week on it.
-> keep it as simple as possible for others to contribute. 
-> make it easy to share the content with other places and keep the license as 
open as possible.
-> keep the structure flat so that you can rearrange the table of contents 
without moving the pages.
-> most images can be used only once, because they show something specific. If 
they show something specific it shouldn't be necessary to describe them 
twice, so they are used at a unique place. This may be different for 
tutorials though.
-> keep old pages intact, including the images. At least the author of the 
page needs to be honored, don't throw his work away he will never come back.
-> never ever offend an author by ripping a page apart he has written. The 
authors are the most valuable good you have, honor their work they do it 
voluntarily. 


But go ahead and do as you like.... 



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I need to get the page 
"Doc:Manual/Physics/Particles"
to be deleted. Else I couldn't move the page 
"Meta:Sandbox/Particles/Startpage" 

Who can do that for me?

Regards


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