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Subject: Re: State of the wiki pages
From: Peter Gostelow <gostelow () global ! co ! za>
Date: 2007-08-22 18:57:19
Message-ID: 20070822185719.GB14051 () grandad
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On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 06:07:52PM +0200, Frederik Schwarzer wrote:
> On Wednesday 22 August 2007 11:54:21 Jos Poortvliet wrote:
>
> > > I looked for information about the ellipsis in menu items and found two
> > > slightly different instructions when to use them.
> > >
> > > [1] "In menus, ellipses (...) indicate that the command specified by a
> > > menu
> > > item needs further input or specifications."
> > > (And some more detailed information.)
> > >
> > > [2] "Use ellipsis if the command opens another window or dialog."
> >
> > It's pretty equivalent, isn't it? though 2 is more clear, I guess...
>
> In one case, every dialog opening entry shall have "...", in the other case it
> more reads like how it is done now (and done by Microsoft).
> In the first case, every "Save", "About", "Help" and such would have to be
> ellipsis'd, what at least I consider as a real mess. :)
>
>
> On Wednesday 22 August 2007 16:00:05 Celeste Lyn Paul wrote:
> > The main page of the wiki has the status of each entry (I think it is keyed
> > and color coded)
>
> Sure. I just had the case where we discussed something related to the
> guidelines and somebody pasted a link to one of the pages. This way you do
> not know in what state the document is and you have to go to the main page
> and look how you would have come to the page that way.
>
> So my suggestioin is to put this colour code on top of the pages as well.
I haven't seen this wiki, but http://en.wikipedia.org have solved similar
issues which the webmaster could use (mostly templates I think, try the
template category at wikipedia). There shouldn't be any copyright problems.
Peter
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