austraLasia #2257
1,000 heads are better than one: now it's over to you!
ROME: 18th September 2008 -- The suggestion came from a member
of the Region recently: why not turn 'Glossary' (on SDL) into a wiki
and open it up to contributions from the region? It was an
excellent
suggestion but SDL can't handle wiki and is for the world, not for the
region. Bosconet is another matter; it is a wiki and exists for
the region. It took several weeks to convert the glossary to wiki
format but the exercise also afforded an opportunity to
update, correct.....and now it is complete.
This may be the first truly collaborative
digital project, using the means now available to us, in the
Congregation. As of now it is potentially 100% collaborative -
over to you!
Have no fear
Turning
'Glossary', the Salesian terminological project, into a wiki means that
anyone authorised may contribute. Have no fear of adding, altering or
deleting, if you
feel you have correct information to warrant it. Fear not:
-
if you are confident of what you
wish to add, alter, delete;
- the system records your changes, which enables a return to an
earlier version;
- there is a complete
backup outside the system; should you create an almighty stuff-up, we
can always recover from it. (But do let me know!).
The austraLasia 'comments' wiki has worked without a
single
problem for more than a year now - allowing people to enter via the
password offered in the last line of every news item (including this
one). I propose that we use the same password for entry to the
Glossary. This will 'protect' the work so long as you do not leave the
password lying around or give it to third persons.
Your knowledge is valuable
'Glossary' is already substantial, as you will see:
http://www.bosconet.aust.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=Main.A
. But there
are very many people around the region, and other regular readers of
austraLasia with additional, invaluable knowledge. Perhaps there are
terms missing, an essential item of
background, especially of a Salesian kind,
absent. Perhaps there is an erroneous comment, or you have a better
example of an authoritative text (always authoritative, please) that
employs the term. Or there could be a regional variety of a term,
including spelling (in which case indicate with EN-GB [-US, -CA, -IN,
-SA, -IE, -PI......]).
What you need to do
Click 'edit' (top, or bottom of page) on
the page you choose to edit.
Scroll down (or use the 'edit-find' function of your
browser) below the indexed items to the term you are
interested in. For the most part you may only be adding,altering,
deleting text which
requires no extra markup than you find there. The markup tends to
be of a simple kind if you do need it, things like [[...]] which create
a link, or ' '...' ' (two separate apostrophe's, not the double
quotation mark) to achieve italics. %colour% to give text that
colour, and #abc to 'anchor' a word for later reference. Or use the
buttons to achieve similar results; their icons are self-explanatory.
If you
add a new term please index it in its appropriate
alphabetical place up top. Just copy what you see done for another
word, substituting your choices. Don't forget to 'preview' your effort,
then most importantly,
'Save'.
Afterwards
It would be courteous to drop me a line to indicate
the change (and put your name in the 'author' box?), though 'the
system' will to some extent have already told me.
It's just that there's a huge amount of material there, and your
telling me personally will facilitate things.
Glossary has the potential to offer the Congregation
a great gift -
there is already interest expressed in translating (and adapting,
obviously) the comments to other languages. The uneditable
version
will remain on SDL but I will update and synchronise any
changes you make to the wiki with the 'fixed' version. Looking
forward to your contributions.
The wiki version facilitates
other things
Now that the time has been taken to convert Glossary
to wiki, you will immediately see other advantages - navigation is so
much more complete, cross-linking is now so much easier, and if a
comment were to run to more than the three or four lines preferred for
each term, creating a new page to contain as much information as
required is as simple as surrounding the title of that page with square
brackets, thus: [[new page]]. The term indicated between the brackets
will now be a linked page in its own right.
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Title: australasia 2257
Subject and key words: SDB General: Glossary wiki
Date (year): 2008
ID: 2000-2099|2257
