Editing Sawfish:Wiki

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Also you can experiment in the [[sandbox]]

==Helpful links==


* To follow the changes to this wiki, and to look out for new events and problem edits, use '''[[Special:Recentchanges|recent changes]]'''.

* If you want to discuss anything about an article, you can use '''[[Help:Talk page|the talk pages]]'''.

<!-- * For more general discussion, use '''[[Forum:Index|the forum]]'''. -->
* For more general discussion, use '''[[Contact|Mailing lists]]'''.

* If you need help editing, you could start with '''[[Wikia:Help:Tutorial|the tutorial]] on the Central Wikia'''.

* There are also more help pages in '''[[:category:Help|the help category]]'''.

* [http://www.wikia.com/wiki/Help:Improving_your_Wikia Improving your wikia]

* [http://www.wikia.com/wiki/Wiki_tips Wiki tips]

== Some Guidelines ==


* Write "Sawfish" if you mean the Window Manager as a whole and "sawfish" when you talk about the program. Better yet, write "<code>sawfish</code>", by enclosing it in HTML tags: <pre><nowiki><code>sawfish</code></nowiki></pre>

==Writing news==

The news pages have a name starting with date (year month day) by convention.
<!-- because the categorytree is sorting items alphabetically. --> 
Currently there is no strict reason to do so; previously it was sorted by the alphabetical order of the page name, but it is now done by the first edit date.
<!-- See [[Template:News]]. -->Each news entry should contain following line, so everything will ''just work'': <pre>[[Category:News]]{{News}}</pre>

==Quick access menus and category trees==

The best way to organize our wiki is to use categories and a quick access menu with a category tree inside.
The toplevel category is ''Sawfish'', all categories and articles that should appear on the first level of the tree, should have a tag <nowiki>[[Category:Sawfish]]</nowiki> inside. Analogously with nested tree levels.
A good working example is now on [[Development]] page. This system has three components:

# '''''Quick access menu''''', like this one: [[Template:Development]]:<br /><br />If you need to create another quick access menu, you simply copy this one, and change the string inside from ''Development'' to your desired category. Be careful, this string is repeated there three times. Now in every page you can write<pre>{{Development}}</pre>to include a quick acces menu. This menu will have automagically created content from categories. Every such '''toplevel''' category (like <tt>Category:Scripts</tt> or <tt>Category:Development</tt>) '''must''' belong to <nowiki>[[Category:Sawfish]]</nowiki>. You can go visit a category page and edit it ─ and you will see what I mean.<br /><br />
# '''''Categorized articles''''': inside each article (eg. on the top) you will need to write to which category the article belongs, like this:<pre>[[Category:Development]]</pre>And it will automatically appear in the quick access menu<br /><br />
# '''''Subcategories''''': to have a subcategory you write inside your article information that it belongs to a subcategory, like:<pre>[[Category:Lisp code]]</pre>Then on the category page <tt>Category:Lisp code</tt> you say that it is a subcategory of <tt>Category:Development</tt> by editing it, and putting inside <pre>[[Category:Development]]</pre>


This is all you need to know, to be able to organize articles using category tree. To summarize, in every article you edit, you will need to put at the top:
* name of category
* quick access menu

Like following example:<pre>[[Category:Lisp code]]{{Development}}</pre>

=== Deleting pages in quick access menus (Sysops only) ===

There seems to be a bug in the quick access menu. When you delete a page which appears in a quick access menu, it will still appear there. What you have to do is ''first'' remove the page from the corresponding category and ''then'' delete it.
:In above case if it goes wrong, a cron job at wikia.com clears the fuss daily at 5 am in the night. [[User:Janek Kozicki|Janek Kozicki]] 17:51, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

==Configuring wiki site==


* The [[MediaWiki:Monobook.css|Monobook.css]] file
* The [[MediaWiki:Smoke.css|Smoke.css]] file
* The [[MediaWiki:Quartz.css|Quartz.css]] file

* The [[MediaWiki:Sidebar|Sidebar]]

==Spying==


* [[Special:Listusers]]

* [[Special:Specialpages]]

* '''''[[Special:Wantedpages]]'''''

[[category:help|Community Portal]]

==Statistics==


* [[Special:Statistics]]

* [[Special:WikiaStats]]

* http://wikistats.wikia.com/EN/TablesWikiaSAWFISH.htm

* http://wikistats.wikia.com/EN/ChartsWikiaSAWFISH.htm
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 Currently there is no strict reason to do so; previously it was sorted by the alphabetical order of the page name, but it is now done by the first edit date.
 <!-- See [[Template:News]]. -->Each news entry should contain following line, so everything will ''just work'': <pre>[[Category:News]]{{News}}</pre>
-== Dynamic page list ==
-To list scripts, themes and patches we are using DynamicPageList extension. Read about it here:
-* http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:DynamicPageList
-* http://semeb.com/dpldemo
 ==Quick access menus and category trees==