Difference between revisions of "GeoGebra Manual:Village Pump"

Latest revision as of 18:44, 27 September 2014

This is our little local village pump (inspired by Wikipedia). This place is intended for discussions about the GeoGebraWiki itself. If you want to contribute more to this wiki than adding examples and comments, please add your project idea to the list below for discussions or let us know what you are working on. If you need to change a lot of pages for your idea please contact Florian Sonner – there might be a more simple solution.

Wiki Structure

Please read or at least skim through the following pages if you want to help us. The listed pages contain vital information which help you understand the internal structure of this wiki.

Project description – a forum post which contains an introduction why this project has been started
Official MediaWiki Help Document – describes the functionality and idea of a wiki and the commands you can use to edit a page
GeoGebraWiki Structure – describes the structure of this wiki (e.g. the namespaces used)
Manual Structure – describes the special structure of the manual and the reasons behind this
How To – instructions how to perform certain common tasks
Translation - instructions for translators

How to organize the knowledge about GeoGebra? Write down your ideas and let it discuss by the community!

Village-Pump-Workers

Who wants to help? Tell about you knowledge and write down you ideas at your user-page and add your name to the following list

Projects

Manual

Manual for version 4.0 is ready, manual for 4.2 is in progress. Command pages for new commands will be generated.

Changelog

We should start a changelog which contains information about changed commands and tools, so that documentation can be changed easily on new release. No sense to do it now, but will be useful for 4.0 -> 4.2 transition.

Since there hasn't been any changelog till now, please look at Category:Outdated, pick a page, make sure it's compatible with 4.0 and set version parameter of Template:Manual Page to either 3.2 or 4.0, depending on whether the content of that page has changed between 3.2 and 4.0 manuals.

Reference

XML guide: Reference:Xml contains complete XML reference. In the future it would be nice to have a short tutorial on that page, since the auto-generated articles are not exactly easy to read.

Italian Wiki

Here there's the Italian Wiki todo list, mainly dedicated to IT translators. But this is also a page intended to contain a list of all possible changes to the GGB Official English Manual, compiled "live" when we find inconsistencies between the Wiki and the software.

Templates

Info templates

see Project:Village Pump/Infobox for details

Tools (Manual) -- done
Commands(Manual)
GUI (Manual) -- done
Objects (Manual)
Events
Tutorials
GeoGebra Institute

Markup templates

example
note
ggb and ggt templates from old wiki

... and a short guide on how and when these should be used

Wanted extensions

If you think we could use an extension that is not already installed, let us know.

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 * [[User:Birgit Lachner]]
 * [[User:Mathmum]]
-* [[User:Spanish1]]
+* [[User:Spanish1|Usuaria:Liliana Saidon Spanish1]]
 * [[User:Jtico]]
+* [[:es:User:Juanpserrano|Juan Pablo Serrano Echeverría]]
+* [[User:Fleecy]]
 == Projects ==
 ===Manual===
-Just tool and command pages were transferred from the old manual until now, but the manual consists of a lot more which has to be transferred.  Before transferring the content we also have to think about a way to organize the content in a more wiki-like way. --[[User:Florian Sonner|Florian Sonner]] 16:52, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
+Manual for version 4.0 is [[Manual:Main Page|ready]], manual for 4.2 is in progress. Command pages for new commands will be generated.
-::As I already mentioned somewhere: In my opinion there are more kind of keywords necessary  like:
-::*Object ...
-::*Property ... ''exemple: the name of an object''
-::*View ... ''names for "visible" parts, not only the main parts like graficview, algebraview, ... but for little parts like columns, rows and cell, too''
-::*Menu ... ''mainmenu, submenu and commands there''
-::Hope it is not too late, but the pagenames [[:Category:Tools]] would be better readable, if the "Tool" is in brackets: '''Angle Tool''' -> '''Angle (Tool)'''.
-::--[[User:Birgit Lachner|Birgit Lachner]]
-<div style="margin-left:3em">
-* not sure what you mean by "keywords". Categories? Use of categories should be automatized via the infoboxes.
-* renaming articles
-*# maybe too late
-*# generally it's better to have as few non-letters in URL as possible
---[[User:Kondr|Kondr]] 23:09, 18 June 2010 (UTC)
-</div>
-::::Yes I ment Categories. In the last months a lot was changed. Seems to be on a good way! If I could help to do some slavery-work for you ... like adding the templates (note, exemple, ...) ... call me. --[[User:Birgit Lachner|Birgit Lachner]] 07:24, 31 August 2010 (UTC)
-:::::Contributions are always welcome! :) We already have [[:Template:Note]] and [[:Template:Example]] but not all command / tool pages use them, it would be great if you could add them to these pages if necessary. --[[User:Florian Sonner|Florian Sonner]] 22:12, 31 August 2010 (UTC)
-:::If there is interest, you can use an adaptation of [https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikibooks/pt/wiki/MediaWiki:Gadget-Títulos_simples.js a gadget from Portuguese Wikibooks] (made in JavaScript and [http://wiki.geogebra.org/skins/common/jquery.js jQuery]), to simplify the titles of items in "Tools" and "Commands" categories without needing to rename the pages themselves. It would be something like this:
-<pre>
-if ( 'Category' === wgCanonicalNamespace && $.inArray( wgTitle, [ 'Tools', 'Commands' ] ) > -1 ) {
-	$(function () {
-		var regexForCats = new RegExp(wgTitle + '?$','g');
-		$('#mw-pages a').each(function (index) {
-			$(this).html(function(i, old) {
-				return old.replace(regexForCats, '');
-			});
-		});
-	});
-}
-</pre>
-:::This could be either added to the site js, using [[MediaWiki:Common.js]] (or to some [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Gadgets gadget] so that users can enable/disable it on [[Special:Preferences]] as they like).
-:::PS: I wasn't able to test it here since [http://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?oldid=379320 wgAllowUserJs] seems to be set to false in this wiki, but the code seems to be correct. [[User:Helder.wiki|Helder]] 20:43, 16 April 2011 (CEST)
 ===Changelog===
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 ==Wanted extensions==
-* <s>math (discussed at [[User talk:Florian Sonner|Admin's talk]])</s>
+If you think we could use an extension that is not [[Special:Version|already installed]], let us know.
-** Alread activated: <math>\frac{x+y}{2}=\sqrt{z^2-1}</math>
-* Liquid threads [[mw:Extension:LiquidThreads]]
-** May be worth to wait until the [[mw:Extension:LiquidThreads/Redesign|redesign of this extension]] is finished and a new version is available.[[User:Helder.wiki|Helder]] 20:43, 16 April 2011 (CEST)
-* ImageMap [[mw:Extension:ImageMap]] -- not much use cases, but may be nice
-* Under the input area the existing templates so that I just need to click on it to get the code. BTW ... are there rules how to enter special thinks? Like GeoGebra-Parts, text from the menus, commands in the menus, ...
-*:It is possible to add buttons to such templates to the toolbar itself as described below. [[User:Helder.wiki|Helder]] 18:20, 29 April 2011 (CEST)
-* an extended toolbar for the editor
-*:This can be globally configured using [[MediaWiki:Common.js]] or in a per-user basis if  [http://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?oldid=379320 wgAllowUserJs] is enabled. It is probably possible to create a bookmarklet to save in your browser, which could add such buttons (even if wgAllowUserJs is not enabled). Besides, there is the [[mw:Extension:WikiEditor]] (only compatible with [[mw:MediaWiki 1.17|MediaWiki 1.17]]+, available since 22/06/2011) which is the default toolbar on Wikipedia and has a [[mw:File:Edittoolbar.PNG|better interface]] and organizes the buttons in groups / sections. [[User:Helder.wiki|Helder]] 18:20, 29 April 2011 (CEST)
-==Adding or updating information in Tools==
-Hi. I have observed that the information in the Tool Reflect Object about Circle is outdated. I wanted to ask I'm I allowed to make changes in that page or its reserved to the developers?
-Regards, [[User:Jtico|Jtico]] 01:04, 30 June 2011 (CEST)