I'd also like to apologise for going AWOL, both to denise and to everyone in dw_docs. I feel awful for it, but I've had an attack of Real Life recently.
FAQ 145 - How do I comment using OpenID could do with more detail, or perhaps breaking up into multiple FAQs. In particular we should have some mention of OpenIDs that are not on the person's access list having URL mangling, because it seems to annoy a lot of people and isn't documented.
FAQ 43 - What are the limits on comments talks about a "human test", but links to a FAQ that talks about a CAPTCHA and I think the terminology is a bit confusing.
Lots of descriptions of comment buttons still refer to the old LJ-style buttons, they should be cleaned up to describe and perhaps include examples of the new, DW icons.
FAQ 14 - What are interests should mention the magic juice way of finding people with similar interests. (Also, this is a bug, not a docs issue, but the popular interests page is way broken, counting unique interests as if billions of people shared them. I guess somebody knows this already? Oh yes, it's in bugzilla, carry on then.)
FAQ 76 - Reading filters needs major updating to talk about the feature that actually exists, not something that is planned for the future.
Topics not really covered in the FAQs: Multilevel tags Setting up custom footer text for crossposted entries, including using the comment number image
Also, cos I always think of something after I hit post:
Various options for URL appending, especially looking at people's entry pages in your own style or light style.
PS: I'm basically willing to write these FAQs or any others you need, or go through the existing ones and fix wording, or whatever, but I really don't want to duplicate effort. I get the feeling that everything is a bit on hold until the marvellous new FAQ system comes on line, but honestly I don't think that's even been properly spec'd yet. So any interim stuff, I'm happy to take on, and I am not going to be at all offended if my writing gets wiped out in a few months' time because we implement a new, vastly better system.
It's late and although I was just there, I can't remember the actual name of the page. Anyway, when I go to mark an entry as memorable, there's text that says if I want to select more than one keyword to hold down the control key and click... But a Mac user doesn't have a control key, and neither does my iPod (from where I am writing this comment). Perhaps the site copy should be more inclusive?
http://www.dreamwidth.org/support/faqbrowse?faqid=64&view=full Needs to be updated to reflect the current state of the rename system (in active development, not live yet, Support will help for honest-to-god mistakes in username typing, other cases will be evaluated case-by-case)
http://www.dreamwidth.org/support/faqbrowse?faqid=4 Tiny nitpicky: "post security levels" violates the "entry is what you make, post is how you get it there" standard, if DW style is adhering to that rule.
Related to this: the old link to edipics is used in several FAQs. It may need to be updated to editicons even it's going to be redirected. I made a list of FAQs where the link was used when working on that bug: http://bugs.dwscoalition.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2398#c4
Nitpick: on the site map, two titles are slightly inconsistent with the rest: "Read Dreamwidth's official journals" should be "...read Dreamwidth's official journals" and "work with some site tools" should be "...work with some site tools".
Site-copy: http://www.dreamwidth.org/support/see_request?id=6053 "Optional: Include in one or more subscription filters. You must subscribe to the user by selecting the second box above in order to add them to any subscription filters." on subscribe page needs to be changed to not refer specifically to the second box.
In http://www.dreamwidth.org/site/suggest.bml , the language used makes me think that it's meant to be a place for reporting bugs/problems with the site and suggestions for fixing the bugs, specially language like "Tell us what problem your suggestion is intended to solve, why you think your suggestion is the best solution to that problem, what problems or drawbacks your suggestion might have, and if there are any other ways you can think to do it." Is this comm only for suggestions for solving problems, or is it for general site suggestions for improvement?
General suggestions for improvements, but even if it's a general suggestion for imrpvoement it would be imrpving *some* problem somebody noticed, even if that probelm is lack of the thing in question...
Can you think of any particular imrpvements to that page you'd like to see? That page can't be changed on the fly, it needs a patch and a code push, so I'd like to make all necessary changes at once.
I don't know. Maybe changing the wording to include something like "problems or general site improvements"? The term problem, to me, indicates that there's something wrong with the way the site works and needs fixed.
"Tell us what issue or area your suggestion is intended to improve, why you think your specific suggestion is the best solution, what problems or drawbacks your suggestion might have if it's implemented, and if there are any other ways you can think to accomplish what you'd like to improve."
FAQ 137 no longer talks about PayPal or anything, but a small type crept in: In the paragraph that starts "If you decide to pay by credit card", it says "charing" about halfway through (should be "charging").
When filling the poll in dw_biz I've realized that I don't know what the differences between free and paid comms are (the comm is specifically searchable I think but I'm not sure). I think FAQ#4 could note which extra services apply to communities.
"Network: your Circle's circle. This means the equivalent of the Friends' friends page is "Read your Network" and the equivalent of "Popular with Friends" is "Popular in your Network". The Network isn't available yet."
http://rinue.livejournal.com/275253.html?thread=688181#t688181 Comment there highlighted that so far in my poking around, I haven't seen the FAQs explicitly spell out that yes, if you pay to create an account then when your paid time runs out, you get to keep the account as free. It's very of-course from the volunteer level, but it looks like it may need explicit stating somewhere.
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FAQ 137 - How do I buy a paid account is still talking about Paypal. I assume you'll update it when you have the new system fully in place?
FAQ 62 - What is an OpenID account should maybe mention joining communities, since that's such a selling point for DW.
FAQ 5 - How do I post an entry should link to FAQ 91 - What is the rich text editor
FAQ 145 - How do I comment using OpenID could do with more detail, or perhaps breaking up into multiple FAQs. In particular we should have some mention of OpenIDs that are not on the person's access list having URL mangling, because it seems to annoy a lot of people and isn't documented.
FAQ 41 - What is comment threading needs to document the new link that goes straight to the beginning of the thread.
FAQ 43 - What are the limits on comments talks about a "human test", but links to a FAQ that talks about a CAPTCHA and I think the terminology is a bit confusing.
Lots of descriptions of comment buttons still refer to the old LJ-style buttons, they should be cleaned up to describe and perhaps include examples of the new, DW icons.
FAQ 14 - What are interests should mention the magic juice way of finding people with similar interests. (Also, this is a bug, not a docs issue, but the popular interests page is way broken, counting unique interests as if billions of people shared them. I guess somebody knows this already? Oh yes, it's in bugzilla, carry on then.)
FAQ 76 - Reading filters needs major updating to talk about the feature that actually exists, not something that is planned for the future.
Topics not really covered in the FAQs:
Multilevel tags
Setting up custom footer text for crossposted entries, including using the comment number image
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Various options for URL appending, especially looking at people's entry pages in your own style or light style.
PS: I'm basically willing to write these FAQs or any others you need, or go through the existing ones and fix wording, or whatever, but I really don't want to duplicate effort. I get the feeling that everything is a bit on hold until the marvellous new FAQ system comes on line, but honestly I don't think that's even been properly spec'd yet. So any interim stuff, I'm happy to take on, and I am not going to be at all offended if my writing gets wiped out in a few months' time because we implement a new, vastly better system.
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The footer at the bottom of sitescheme pages still says © 2009 when it should say 2010.
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That could use
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Needs to be updated to reflect recent changes.
create memory page
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Needs to be updated to reflect the current state of the rename system (in active development, not live yet, Support will help for honest-to-god mistakes in username typing, other cases will be evaluated case-by-case)
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Tiny nitpicky: "post security levels" violates the "entry is what you make, post is how you get it there" standard, if DW style is adhering to that rule.
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Fix title of edit icons page. Change from "Manage Userpics" to something involving icons to keep terms consistent.
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"Read Dreamwidth's official journals" should be "...read Dreamwidth's official journals" and "work with some site tools" should be "...work with some site tools".
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http://www.dreamwidth.org/manage/emailpost?mode=help&type=headers isn't mentioned anywhere in the faqs.
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Can you think of any particular imrpvements to that page you'd like to see? That page can't be changed on the fly, it needs a patch and a code push, so I'd like to make all necessary changes at once.
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Does that sound better?
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Needs changing because now we can transfer points!
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Needs FAQ on nested tags.
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I knew that the nested tag thing existed, but all I could think to search on is was "colon"...
Here's a fantastic tutorial on the topic: http://relevant-creativity.dreamwidth.org/18372.html
(the 2/3 refers to the set of tutorials, not the nested tags)
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Adding an FAQ with details about using images as backgrounds on a journal would be good.
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FAQ 4 needs to be updated with comm stuff.
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"Network: your Circle's circle. This means the equivalent of the Friends' friends page is "Read your Network" and the equivalent of "Popular with Friends" is "Popular in your Network". The Network isn't available yet."
Network is totally available now for paid users!
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Comment there highlighted that so far in my poking around, I haven't seen the FAQs explicitly spell out that yes, if you pay to create an account then when your paid time runs out, you get to keep the account as free. It's very of-course from the volunteer level, but it looks like it may need explicit stating somewhere.