GeoGebra Manual:Village Pump

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Since there hasn't been any changelog till now, please look at Category:Outdated, pick a page, make sure it's compatible with 4.0 and set version parameter of Template:Manual Page to either 3.2 or 4.0, depending on whether the content of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

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. 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 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 MediaWiki 1.17+, available since 22/06/2011) which is the default toolbar on Wikipedia and has a better interface and organizes the buttons in groups / sections. 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, Jtico 01:04, 30 June 2011 (CEST)