Wiki Documentation Standards

Introduction

As the number of contributors to the OSE Wiki is growing, it is time to begin defining standards for content. Wikipedia is a good example of clear formatting and standards. Our standards are by nature more demanding, since we are not only re-presenting knowledge as Wikipedia does, but also developing/inegrating designs at the same time. A collaborative multimedia strategy for accomplishing this task successfully is yet to be defined and perfected. Our aim is to start this process, and make significant contibutions thereto.

Basics

(draft in progress...not complete)

Following Development Work Template

Click on Printable Version in left sidebar, right cick on page and save as "pagename.html" where pagename = the name of the wiki page.

Download Python http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.5/

Download Mercurial http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/

Place all of your files into a folder

navigate to that folder in your terminal (or Putty terminal in windows).

type "hg init"

This is will initiate the files into a repostiory of their own

Type "hg add", which will add your files to the repository.

Type "hg ci -m 'you notes and messages here'

Also usable: http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/OtherTools GUI clients for mercurial.

http://bitbucket.org/tortoisehg/stable/wiki/Home recommended (Tortoise HG)

..more to come