[eluser]jedd[/eluser]
And now, to celebrate the arrival of my new green dot -- I want to draw the attention of the People Who Know What They're Doing (and they know who they are) to an initiative (it sounds better than 'page') that I've been pondering for a while, and finally got around to doing something about on the wiki.
We all know the 'how do I get my title/menu/header/footer/login-name/starsign appearing on every page?' question pops up every few minutes - and there's a few other thread subjects that are just as regular as a high bran diet, too.
Some of you guys have taken to experimenting with responding in fewer and fewer words, which is fascinating to watch - while others just have a stock response they seem to paste in (in my case my stock response now includes links to threads that I think have particularly brightly coloured text). All these are good, but they tend to get lost in time, like tears in an overly-chlorinated swimming pool.
Anyhoo, to cut a long story short is not my style. I thought that for all these subjects where there's no clearly Right Way To Do It, we could have a corner of the wiki where we could wax lyrical on our particular ways of doing these things.
The idea includes:
o identifying and generalising the questions that come frequently
o walking the new CI user through how you do that particular task
o identifying your CI-forum handle so that we can clarify things with you
o putting your stuff
into the wiki - not just posting a link into the forums, or to an off-site resource
o don't edit other people's pages - that kind of defeats the point
The first two are easy.
The third might be a bit annoying, but I think it's worth a go - easy enough to remove it later and have the details quickly lost in the mess that is the wiki changelog.
The fourth might annoy anyone with a page 'ready to go', but I don't think we need Yet Another list of internet resources. There's enough of those suckers out there, and whilst google can possibly find them amongst the millions of similar pages, the wiki search engine certainly would not.
So - long story slightly less long - if you want to have a browse around over there, please do - and I hope you might consider contributing. Please note that the way categories work is a bit of an unholy mess. When you want to modify the indexing pages,to insert in the link to your new page, just make sure you go to the URL bar in your browser and remove the string
Category: otherwise you'll find the subject-index page content mysteriously empty.
URL is: [url="http://codeigniter.com/wiki/Approaches/"]http://codeigniter.com/wiki/Approaches/[/url]
