dw_docs | July Dreamwidth Documentation Suggestions Thread

Is an equivalent of http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=30 going to be written? It appears that this feature is available on DW, though some of LJ's other SMS features aren't. (And thank you for listing them on http://www.dreamwidth.org/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=131. That's such a useful summary.)

Capitalisation in the name of http://www.dreamwidth.org/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=175 doesn't appear to match the other FAQs. Ditto http://www.dreamwidth.org/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=152 and http://www.dreamwidth.org/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=173.

http://www.dreamwidth.org/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=120 could possibly do with breaking up into more readable chunks with sub-headings? It's a long list and it's only going to get longer.

http://www.dreamwidth.org/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=127 doesn't seem to match http://www.dreamwidth.org/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=86&q=import&lang= perfectly - there's extra information on the latter. Is it worth cross-linking or something?

Also, why did it add &lang= on the end when I used the FAQ search? Is that a bug?

On http://www.dreamwidth.org/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=130, is that known bug still true or has it been fixed?

http://www.dreamwidth.org/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=108 could do with some formatting.

I thought there was a FAQ on volunteering, but I can't see it in the list of all FAQs, and searching for "How can I help" produces no results. Where is it, or am I misremembering?

Incidentally, searching for "official communities" doesn't produce the FAQ on that. Is there any easy way to improve FAQ search or add keywords to FAQs? Searching for "accessibility" in the FAQs only produces the RSS FAQ.

Is there a FAQ which covers the fact that Dreamwidth isn't available in other languages, and why? Should it go in the list of things that LJ has and DW doesn't?

Also, that "What's missing" FAQ doesn't appear to include LJ Talk or LiveJournal Messenger, or the Schools Directory.

There doesn't appear to be a FAQ on the mobile interface. Should this be added? Is there a direct link to it anywhere, or how are people meant to discover it?

LJ also has http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=259 which is rather useful.

Is any of http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=159 relevant to DW? What about http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=74? Should that also be in the list of paid account benefits at http://www.dreamwidth.org/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=153?

Is http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=135 worth having on DW?

Should http://www.dreamwidth.org/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=24&q=memories include the fact that memories can't be imported?

On http://www.dreamwidth.org/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=153, should it be split into two FAQs, probably linking to each other but separate?

Also, "Ability to create polls" should now be split into "Ability to create polls in own journal" and "Ability to create polls in paid communities" or something like that, given the recent changes.

Should that FAQ also be split to show which features are relevant to journals, which to communities, and which are true for both? Though I guess the communities bit will look a bit bare at the moment.

FAQ search is soooo bad right now, and when I hit the no-matches condition, which I do a lot, it's even worse.

try to search for : user name tag - which is in faq 87 -- I get nothing.

Turns out that this search does an exact string match, doesn't break up the words and try to match all of them. Making people guess the strings is pretty much the worst thing you can do to search, I'd almost rather not see a search at all.

Is that worth making into a suggestion, then, at http://www.dreamwidth.org/site/suggest ? To match words individually rather than exact string match?

See comment in Suggestions from

word_geek:

Every time I created a poll in LJ, I had to go look up which was which between radio buttons and checkboxes. The only place I could find this info was in the write your own poll code bit. I never remembered, because I didn't do then that often.

If it's possible to put that detail in the FAQ for polls, that would be awesome.

http://dw-suggestions.dreamwidth.org/5648.html -- indicates that there's some confusion about linking to users on DW vs elsewhere. I'm not sure if this is necessarily a FAQ issue, but perhaps a general site copy issue?

Hm. Could go either way. Doing a second tagging faq might not be a bad notion. afaik, there's no reason not to put the same information in multiple faqs.

Maybe a "how can I link to people" FAQ? Covering both on DW and on other sites?

*nods* I've kicked it over to the comm for a draft.

http://www.dreamwidth.org/lostinfo.bml when completed says:

Lost Information
Password emailed.

Success. Your password has been emailed.

But, we no longer email passwords, thank goodness! We should have some better site copy describing what is actually happening.

<h1>Success</h1><p>Your comment has been added. You can<a href='http://dw-docs.dreamwidth.org/25100.html?view=195084#t195084'> view it </a>.

The link shouldn't include spaces aroud view it, and there shouldn't be a space between view it and the period!

There's a feature where you can click on the custom group name and view all entries that are locked to that custom group. Could that be documented, please, or is it already somewhere I haven't seen? Apparently you can also type in a similar search for all public entries, or all access-locked entries. Also, I read somewhere that it's a paid user feature, in which case, should it go in the paid accounts FAQ as a paid feature?

Can you give me more information on this? [Where you go to do it, what you do.] Because I knew it was on the drawing board, but I wasn't aware it had been implemented.

http://cesy.dreamwidth.org/security/friends gives my access-only entries, there's http://cesy.dreamwidth.org/security/public and http://cesy.dreamwidth.org/security/group:NonRL etc.

I'm not sure you understood my question. What I need to have is the URL for where *I* would go on DW to do this, and as much information about the process as you have.

http://ivorygates.dreamwidth.org/security/public and http://ivorygates.dreamwidth.org/security/friends seem to work, though I can't see any filtered entries you have. The only other thing I've discovered is that (at least on Tabula Rasa and Zesty), at the bottom of my entries where it lists the custom friends groups I've locked it to, those names are a link to pages such as http://ivorygates.dreamwidth.org/security/group:CustomFriendsGroup1, which allow me to see all the entries locked to that group.

Does that help?

There's a bit more explanation in http://www.dreamwidth.org/support/see_request.bml?id=2084.

Awesome! Thanks!

There are some extra newlines in the invites distribution email:

http://bugs.dwscoalition.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1404

In http://www.dreamwidth.org/manage/emailpost, lacks a space between "instructions" and "for more help" (top of page)

cesy suggests a rewrite of hte paid account email here.

July Dreamwidth Documentation Suggestions Thread

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FAQs on LJ we should have on DW, and other issues

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Misleading site copy on lost password page

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