Thread: Need help with putting the old Tablet School text on the wiki
View Single Post
krisse's Avatar
krisse is offline krisse
2009-05-19 , 12:54
Posts: 1,540 | Thanked: 1,045 times | Joined on Feb 2007
#10
Originally Posted by Jaffa View Post
Similar to Tim, not checked tmo for over 24 hours (a bit odd in and of itself, admittedly), but 3 messages in just under 24 hours is a bit quick to moan about a lack of help.
Well, it was more that I saw some of the pro-wiki people posting in lots of other threads but not this one.

And then the PM saying that most of the ITS content was already covered by the current wiki content...

Anyway. :-)



And it's probably worth creating the pages under a "School" namespace (possibly by OS as well): "http://wiki.maemo.org/School/Diablo/Enabling_USB_host"
I really don't know what that means... sorry.

Ahhh, hang on, you mean like a sub-directory of a website?

The OS thing could be a problem as some of the tutorials only work with Chinook (mostly the ones that depend on host mode as there's no easy way to put Diablo tablets into host mode AFAIK).

Also, beginners probably won't know what their OS version is because it's not really mentioned anywhere in the interface. They are much more likely to just know the model number of their tablet, and whether they have updated the firmware.

The approach perhaps ought to be that people find tutorials by tablet model, and are told to update to the latest firmware in order to make the tutorial work. That way they wouldn't have to know anything about firmware versions, merely make sure they have updated the firmware recently.

Of course it would mean the tutorials would all have to be checked (and possibly updated) to make sure they work with Diablo.


Finally, Iet's have some guidelines for title: in your example above I could have called it "How_to_enable_USB_host_on_diablo" but I went for the consistent "<verb>_<noun>" structure in an active tense. It's an approach ("how to" is superfluous either way, I think) but I think some consistency would be good before too much content gets cross-linked.
Clarity might be more important than consistency. Some tutorial titles lend themselves to "how to" but others don't. Couldn't titles be done on a case-by-case basis?