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No offence meant to the original author but what does everyone think about all the click 'here' style links?
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Let's not get to excited about adding content here just yet - we should take the time to create some templates for information so that we don't have to go back and redo pages.  It might be a good idea to pop over to Wikipedia and take a good close look at how they do things before we start. We don't have to copy everything they do, but we don't have to re-invent the wheel, either.
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Take a look at [http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/www/click.html Why "Click here" is bad linking practice] for more information. Regards, Mark R.
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Very good comment, and even better link - Thanks, I'll bear it mind. [And, no offense taken - If we're gonna do this, we're gonna need thick skin before it's 'right'!]
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Most of the JMRI info is available on the JMRI site at sourceforge.net
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Bob
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== Where to place link to external sites? ==
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I see it's a new site, congrats!  I don't know anything about JMRI, otherwise I would contribute.  I was wondering, where could I place a link to the DCCWiki ([http://wiki.dccforall.com/]).  Any ideas?  For now, I'll create a simple "References" type page, which feel free to change/delete/whatever. [[User:TazzyTazzy|TazzyTazzy]] 22:23, 13 March 2006 (PST)
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== Will to add interwiki link to DCCWiki? ==
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Was wondering if you would want to add an interwiki link to the DCCWiki.  This would probaly help with doco since a statement like:
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<nowiki>"For Digitrax systems, you will need to connect your [[dcc:LocoNet|LocoNet]] to your computer."  or "The [[dcc:Command station|command station]] is used to route programming codes to the [[dcc:Decoder|decoder]]."</nowiki>
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This would change the link from your Wiki to point to the DCCWiki where LocoNet (and other DCC topics) are already defined.  This will be helpful because people could just simply use this for pretty much any general DCC (non-JMRI specific) topic so that people reading your wiki can quickly lookup items easier.
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The alternative is to copy/recreate all the general DCC topics here.
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Let me know what you decide, and if you need help doing this, let me know. [[User:TazzyTazzy|TazzyTazzy]] 23:06, 13 March 2006 (PST)
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Mitch - Yes *please* help! And I wish this hadn't become 'My' Wiki all of a sudden! - It's *not* mine, I just tried to get the ball rolling, and your offer is willingly accepted - Go for it - We have no intention of duplicating what's already been done....
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: I'd love to help as much as I can, but I don't run JRMI (yet).  I'm still building my railroad. :-)  As I learn JMRI, i'll be sure to contribute.  I'm having the same issue at the [http://wiki.dccforall.com/ DCCWiki] site.  I got it started and organized, and added alot of content.  At first, not alot of other users contributing. Though, slowly, people are starting to find out about it, and add to it.  It's a long slow process.  The only thing I can say is that if the documention stops outside the JMRI Wiki, hopefully people will contribute more to the Wiki site.  Perhaps not the best choice, but if no one maintains the JMRI document (other than this Wiki), chances are people will use this Wiki more.
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: You have to keep in mind, relative other sites, JMRI is a small community. WIthin that group, there's a few who are willing to write documentation for others.  Of those, there's bound to be a few who can't figre out how to use a Wiki.  Perhaps the best way to create a couple documents on easy way to contribute for Wiki beginners.  I think alot of people forget that they can just add one paragraph, or fix one word.  They don't have to write a whole document.  If everyone contributed on paragraph, a Wiki site will take off. It's hard to get the inital momentum built.  Hang in there, and I'm sure the JMRI and DCC wiki sites will be more and more helpful to our fellow model railroaders! [[User:TazzyTazzy|TazzyTazzy]] 02:53, 19 June 2006 (EDT)
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Current revision as of 12:36, 8 September 2012

Let's not get to excited about adding content here just yet - we should take the time to create some templates for information so that we don't have to go back and redo pages. It might be a good idea to pop over to Wikipedia and take a good close look at how they do things before we start. We don't have to copy everything they do, but we don't have to re-invent the wheel, either.

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