[Bf-docboard] New to blender wiki

[fade_docboard_blender at ymail.com]

Hi,

Here's how I do it (in more detail than you probably care about). 
Obviously you'll need to substitute in your wiki username instead of mine.

1. Go to my user page and open edit mode 
(http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User:Fade)
2. Make a link to a new page with the appropriate address and save it. 
e.g. [[User:Fade/Doc:2.6/Manual/Interface/Window_types|Window types]] to 
correspond with 
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Manual/Interface/Window_types
3. The new link will display in red as there's nothing in the new page 
yet (see my user page for an example)
4. Click the red link to open up edit mode for the new page
5. In a new browser tab, go to the wiki page I want to fix and open the 
edit mode.
6. Copy and paste everything from the wiki page to the corresponding 
version on my user page and save my user page version.
7. Add a WIP fix message to the wiki page that links to my fix page  (so 
that people know someone is working on it) and save it.
8. Go to my fix page and edit it.
9. When I'm finished, I take the WIP message off the wiki page

There's plenty of small pages currently listed on the review table 
(http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Meta:Wiki_Tasks/Review_2.6_Manual) 
that really only need images and minor corrections which might be a good 
place to start learning.

e.g.
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Manual/3D_interaction/Transform_Control/Pivot_Point/Bounding_Box_Center
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Manual/3D_interaction/Transform_Control/Pivot_Point/Individual_Origins
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Manual/Modifiers/Generate/Build

Regards
Fade


On 03/03/12 12:58, snowleopard.uncia24 wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I would like to contribute to the Blender wiki manual, mainly by 
> creating images and diagrams for pages that need them. (as well as 
> adding additional information to pages that require it).
> However I am new to wiki editing and I'm not sure how to proceed. 
> Could someone explain the editing process and any other required 
> information? I've read the Writer Guide, but I don't understand all of 
> it (|"|Copy the wikitext from |[[Doc:2.6/Manual/Foo]]| in 
> |||[[User:YourNick/Doc:2.6/Manual/Foo]]"....   --   etc). Do I need to 
> go through the approval process for adding images?|
>
>
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