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For audience: User contributions add to the quality of the user forum. Your contributions are therefore desired and profoundly appreciated. Kindly try to be one of the contributors.
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Applies to version: Help:SMWforum User Manuals Section 0.9,
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Note: Use the tree-view on the right hand side to navigate in the documentation
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Becoming a registered user
One may actually read articles in this forum without having an account.
We however recommend that you become a registered user since you thereby gain access to several features:
- other users may contact you and even see the contributions that you have made,
- write own articles (e.g. examples in the library) and correct issues in articles,
- file bugs which you have found in your SMW+/SMW installation
How to create an account in the SMW+ User Forum
(you can read more about the user roles: Take a look at the defined roles)
Leaving general feedback
We appreciate any form of feedback since this helps us to improve our services and our communication in general; you can basically comment on articles, start a discussion or drop us an email:
- How to leave a comment on articles in the SMWforum
- Open the feedback section of the forum to write down your thoughts and ideas
- Open the general questions section of the forum to inquire for unspecific issues.
- or drop us an email!
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Leaving feedback about SMW+ or the Halo extension
Let us know how useful you find our products and what is required to make it more suitable for you. Tell us about bugs you found in the software:
- Open the "Using SMW+, SMW and the Halo Extension in daily work" section in the forum and let the community know about your experiences.
- If you believe you found a software bug in SMW+ or the halo extension then file a software bug in SMWbugzilla.
Read How to file a bug.
- You want to propose a new feature? Then file a feature request in SMWbugzilla. Read How to propose a feature request.
Reporting wrong or missing information in articles
If you found an error in a manual article or if you miss accuracy in a particular article which you don't want to correct by yourself, then please file a quality issue for the given article in SMWbugzilla. You can simply point out the error, suggest an update or make a proposal for a new topic.
- Report a quality issue in SMWforum.
How to report a bug in SMWbugzilla.
- See the list of current quality issues filed for SMWforum: list of quality issues.
- Read the quality assurance process in SMWforum: How to assure the quality of manual articles
Authoring articles in this wiki
Whenever you seek help from the user manuals and get stuck just start taking notes at this point. Once you find the solution, kindly try and help other users by documenting your experience and your work-around. Try and present your solution to other users so that you save them the hustle of falling into the same problematic. You can actually improve the user manual directly or create a task for the documentation team. Here are some ways in which you may help make the manuals better:
- By editing the pages directly by clicking on the "Edit" tab. Don't mind so much about the mistakes that you fear that you might make. We have a mechanism that keeps revisions of all manual pages such that we may at all times recover the previous version if need be.
Read How to edit an article.
- By adding a comment on manual articles. We recommend that one logs in while posting comments since this is much more personal. Nonetheless, one might do this without logging in. This will however only display your IP address.
- By adding new manual pages. All registered users can add new pages. If you have the knowledge about a stable extension that requires user documentation, kindly let the community know about this. You simply need to provide the name of the extension in the box that is located below followed by filling-in the form. You, or in possible collaboration with other users, can then start documenting this software product. If you are of the opinion that some pages or details about a certain topic are missing, always feel free to submit a task which should have the type "propose new article."
More information
Here are some resources that you might find helpful when authoring articles in the SMWforum:
- Read the guidelines for adding new content or changing existing content
- Read documentation about the user manuals section for a general overview of the User Manual Section.
- Editing an article
- Create a new page
- Creating a help page
- Improving the SMW+ User Forum
Supporting other users
Kindly help answer the other user’s questions where possible. To do this:
- See latest threads and comments in the Community main page
- Try to answer them by replying to the comments or posting in the forum.
Be part of the software development process
- Developer style guide
- Distributing a MediaWiki extension using the Deployment Framework 1.5.6
- Distributing a MediaWiki extension using the Wiki Administration Tool 1.6.0
- Distributing a MediaWiki extension using the Wiki Administration Tool 1.7.0
- How can I check out the latest SMW+ code
- How can I commit
- How can I provide patches for SMW+
- How can I setup Unit- and Webtests for MediaWiki Extensions
- How to use GNU patch
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