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(Another idea for protecting the main page. PLEASE COMMENT! (THIS IS A NOTE SO MOJCA WILL NOTICE THIS AMONG ALL MY OTHER COMMENTS. ;) ))
 
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= General Wiki Comments =
 
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== Spam problem ==
 
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I don't know how to deal with spam on this wiki. Perhaps I could protect the main page, so spam is not the first thing you see. But then any change has to be proposed here or by mail to me. Any comments?
 
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--[[User:Patrick Gundlach|pg]] 16:03, 4 May 2005 (CEST)
 
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perhaps it's contrary to someone's ideal of what a wiki should be, but what about requiring a user to register in order to make changes? --[[User:Adam|Adam]] 01:49, 5 May 2005 (CEST)
 
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: that does not help: bots are clever enough to create an account (that happened last time) --[[User:Patrick Gundlach|pg]]
 
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I would be happy for the front page to be restricted - shouldn't change so often anyway. Otherwise is there a possibility of having one of those human-only registration forms which requires typing the contents of a graphic, to stop the bots? I don't know how that might be implemented though. --[[User:Duncan|Duncan]] 12:23, 5 May 2005 (CEST)
 
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Right, I noticed that was a bot the last time, just after posting. Yeah, locking the main page would be another good step.
 
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Once I have my RSS client set up again, I can keep a closer watch on changes (again) so it's not just Patrick quashing the Spam. --[[User:Adam|Adam]]
 
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: OK, I have protected the main page. If you want to edit anything, please mail me, or put it here and I will paste it to the main page. [[User:Patrick Gundlach|pg]]
 
  
  
 
= Comments on [[Main Page]] =
 
= Comments on [[Main Page]] =
  
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Mojca recently asked (in the changelog) for comments on the reorganization of the [[Main Page]].  It looks quite good to me, overall.  The "how to edit a Wiki page" should probably link to the existing [[Help:Editing]] page, or perhaps directly to MediaWiki's Help:Editing page.
 
  
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I do think a couple of the section headings should be changed.  "Tips, Tricks, and Hacks" is becoming a storehouse of actual documentation as well as just small "tricks", and the name should reflect that: something like "ConTeXt Documentation and How-To", maybe.  "Help & Guidelines" should be "Wiki Help & Guidelines", so as to distinguish it from "ConTeXt help".
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I '''really''' like the new look of the wiki! --[[User:Braslau|Alan]]
  
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It may also be useful to put "short explanations" next to the links, much as I've been doing in the [[From LaTeX to ConTeXt]] page.
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Under the 'News', it should be -
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On January 2, 2021 (& not 2020), availability of "A not so short introduction to ConTeXt" v1.6 by Joaquín Ataz-López
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--[[User:Ramkumarkb|Ramkumar]]
  
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--[[User:Brooks|Brooks]] 02:49, 4 Sep 2005 (UTC)
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:fixed, thanks [[User:Taco|Taco]] ([[User talk:Taco|talk]]) 08:59, 13 January 2021 (CET)
  
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: Brooks, you wrote too much today ;) ! You cannot expect people to read all your comments!!! (I didn't even notice your posting here until I wanted to add something).<br>Yes, "How to edit a Wiki page" should certainly be merged with [[Help:Editing]]. I forgot that this page ever existed as it somehow disappeared from my view. [[Help:Contents]] should ugently be changed as well. (Feel free to do it.)
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= General ConTeXt Questions =
  
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: I thought that "Help & Guidelines" could be used for guidelines about writing to the mailing list as well, but it's true that it should be distinguished from ConTeXt help. I agree to add comments next to links (but what comments?).<br> Also, quite some stuff is still missing on the main page, the "Main ConTeXt Documentation and HowTo-s" needs to be reorganized and <b>Categories</b> should be defined, so that we can start categorizing the majority of pages (I had no idea what Categories to define for pages under "Visuals", "Structurals", "Inside ConTeXt" (which should probably better be defined as "Programming" or something similar), ...). Quite some "secondary pages" are missing (connecting the first page and actual articles, just like your [[From LaTeX to ConTeXt]], one page with [[Links]] is certainly missing).
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This is not the place to ask general questions about ConTeXt. If you have a longer question, the best thing to do with it is create a new page (see [[Help:Editing]] for how to do that) with a description of the problem, and put the special text <code><nowiki>{{howto}}</nowiki></code> in it, which will cause it to be listed on the [[Category:How to]] page.  If you have a short question that is appropriate for the [[FAQ]], you can add it there, and leave the answer blank.  If you have a question that you wish to discuss, the best place for that is the [http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context ConTeXt mailing list] or the "Discussion" page associated with a particularly relevant Wiki page, though you can also use the [[Talk:FAQ|FAQ's "Talk" page]] if there's not an obvious choice.
  
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: Despite the generally accepted decision to lock the first page, I hope that I'm not violating the rules too much if I unlock it for two days (sorry, Patrick), so that you can improve it by yourself if you want. If anyone spams the first page in the meantime, I take the responsibility to remove the spam from it (as soon as I come online).
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= History =
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:--[[User:Mojca Miklavec|Mojca]] 19:37, 4 Sep 2005 (UTC)
 
  
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:: Thanks!  I think I'll make a copy of the [[Main Page]], and put it in [[Main Page Sandbox]], so I can muck about with some organizational ideas without affecting the "live" version until they're finished. I was going to say that we could delete [[Main Page Sandbox]] after we're done, but it might be useful to leave it up for future things like this. --[[User:Brooks|Brooks]] 23:09, 4 Sep 2005 (UTC)
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* On July 25, 2020, the [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:NoTitle NoTitle] wiki extension was installed.
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* Since July 1, 2020, this wiki and [http://live.contextgarden.net live.cg.net] and [http://source.contextgarden.net source.cg.net] are all using ConTeXt `version: 2020.06.30 17:30 (LMTX)`.
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* Since May 28, 2020, we are running on a new mediawiki core, version 1.34.1.
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* The '''[http://meeting.contextgarden.net/2019 13th ConTeXt Meeting]''' took place in Bassenge-Boirs, Belgium on September 16–21, 2019.
  
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:: Another idea for handling the main page, as far as editing goes -- see [http://sandbox.contextgarden.net/Brooks's_Sandbox_Two|This Page on the Sandbox].  There's no actual content on the page; it's all in a pair of templates.  That page could then be locked, but people could still edit the templates and change the content, so long as they knew which templates to edit.  I don't know how smart the spammers are, but it ought to at least block the lazy and/or automatic ones.  --[[User:Brooks|Brooks]] 00:08, 5 Sep 2005 (UTC)
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== just a typo (which I cannot fix myself) ==
  
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= General ConTeXt Questions =
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'russian' instead of 'Russian' --[[User:Ousia|Pablo Rodríguez]] ([[User talk:Ousia|talk]]) 17:50, 29 June 2022 (CEST)
  
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This is not the place to ask general questions about ConTeXt.  If you have a longer question, the best thing to do with it is create a new page (see [[Help:Editing]] for how to do that) with a description of the problem, and put the special text <code><nowiki>{{Howto}}</nowiki></code> in it, which will cause it to be listed on the [[Category:How to]] page.  If you have a short question that is appropriate for the [[FAQ]], you can add it there, and leave the answer blank.  If you have a question that you wish to discuss, the best place for that is the [http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context ConTeXt mailing list] or the "Discussion" page associated with a particularly relevant Wiki page, though you can also use the [[Talk:FAQ|FAQ's "Talk" page]] if there's not an obvious choice.
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:fixed, thanks [[User:Taco|Taco]] ([[User talk:Taco|talk]]) 08:40, 30 June 2022 (CEST)

Latest revision as of 06:42, 30 June 2022


Comments on Main Page

I really like the new look of the wiki! --Alan

Under the 'News', it should be - On January 2, 2021 (& not 2020), availability of "A not so short introduction to ConTeXt" v1.6 by Joaquín Ataz-López --Ramkumar

fixed, thanks Taco (talk) 08:59, 13 January 2021 (CET)

General ConTeXt Questions

This is not the place to ask general questions about ConTeXt. If you have a longer question, the best thing to do with it is create a new page (see Help:Editing for how to do that) with a description of the problem, and put the special text {{howto}} in it, which will cause it to be listed on the page. If you have a short question that is appropriate for the FAQ, you can add it there, and leave the answer blank. If you have a question that you wish to discuss, the best place for that is the ConTeXt mailing list or the "Discussion" page associated with a particularly relevant Wiki page, though you can also use the FAQ's "Talk" page if there's not an obvious choice.

History

  • On July 25, 2020, the NoTitle wiki extension was installed.
  • Since July 1, 2020, this wiki and live.cg.net and source.cg.net are all using ConTeXt version: 2020.06.30 17:30 (LMTX).
  • Since May 28, 2020, we are running on a new mediawiki core, version 1.34.1.
  • The 13th ConTeXt Meeting took place in Bassenge-Boirs, Belgium on September 16–21, 2019.

just a typo (which I cannot fix myself)

'russian' instead of 'Russian' --Pablo Rodríguez (talk) 17:50, 29 June 2022 (CEST)

fixed, thanks Taco (talk) 08:40, 30 June 2022 (CEST)
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