Re: [Phpwiki-talk] Facilitating recipes with phpwiki

[Margie R. <mro...@ch...>]

Thanks for your thoughts. Note:  I actually want linebreaks ("not <br>")
to convert to <br>.

my thinking is if that "wikis confuse people a lot," apart from training,
there is probably more that can be done on the user-interface end to make
it less confusing.

One thing I want to do is to move EditThis to the top of the page, for
instance. Haven't dissected how to do that yet, actually. Clues welcome.

Another item I forgot to mention is the desire to print only the recipe
(one of the nested tables...) Very minor point. Major points are:

- want html input
- want EditThis at the top of the page
- want single returns to be linebreaks. (that would negate the need for a
special recipe input form.)
-<small> didn't work for me at the beginning of a line.

Someone pointed out that I forgot to mention the URL.

It's rawfoodwiki.org.

Best Regards,

Margie


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On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Adam Shand wrote:

> Marjorie Roswell wrote:
>
> >I've concluded that since people aren't using my site, it could
> >probably be made easier to use. Looking for ideas, and also code.
> >
> >I've announced the site to a raw foods listserv twice, to a raw food
> >seminar of people who cared enough to pay $40 to be there, and to
> >(great) vegetarian thanksgiving meal, and to this listserv, of course.
> >Of more than 600 people receiving the announcement, only three people
> >have added content to it, including someone on this list.
> >
> Just as an FYI, that's actually not too bad.  wiki's confuse people ...
> a lot.  despite the fact that they are incredibly simple a lot of people
> really resist the idea of using them.  it took me months to get people
> regularly adding contect to the personaltelco.net wiki and that's
> despite the fact that my audience was fairly hardcore geek and there
> were 70+ people on a mailing list specifically working on a project.
>
> wiki's build slowly, give it time.  in the mean time make sure that
> *you* use it as much as possible, as it becomes more and more useful
> people will use it more and more.
>
> my personal recommendation would be that if you want to use wiki, resist
> the temptation to make a special recipe module.  the strength of wiki
> comes from it's ability to do everything.  if you did want to do
> something to make importing recipies easier maybe a good way of doing it
> would be to setup a little web form which would convert other formats
> into wiki markup, so they can just cut and paste it into the wiki.  this
> way you preserve the strength of wiki and still make peoples lives easier.
>
> some of your other concerns are totally valid, i'd love to see %%%
> replaced with <br> etc.
>
> Adam.
>
> >
> >
>