Wiki conventions?

RT Users
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Hi all,
I’ve finally created an account on the RT wiki. This has been a really
great resource for me, but there are a lot of pages I’ve read in the last
few months with formatting mistakes, grammar problems, outdated information
that’s not marked as not working under 4.x, and so on. I don’t know how
much time I’ll have to edit things, but I hope to try to contribute where I
can by fixing mistakes when I find them. I might add my own pages
eventually, but for now I’ll stick to edits.

What are the conventions by which Best Practical likes people to operate?
For instance, if a page is understandable but could do with better grammar,
is it considered polite to correct it, or should it be left alone? What
other rules and conventions exist that I should keep in mind? Thanks.

Alex Hall
Automatic Distributors, IT department
ahall@autodist.com

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Alex,

The RT-Wiki was ported from Wikia to Mediawiki last year. There are still
quite a number of rough edges, particularly regarding the formatting of
code blocks.

My general feeling with a wiki is that the history is there; if you somehow
make it worse, it can always be reverted, and I’ve never seen anyone
complain about corrections to grammar, spelling and clarity.

I just added LowHangingFruit - Request Tracker Wiki, which
gives a sed script which can be used to clean up some pretty ugly code
blocks using tags, which seem to give mediawiki’s code formatting
bad indigestion. Copy the wiki text into a file, run the sed script, copy
the text back, and view the results. If they look good, save it.

–BartonOn Fri, Dec 30, 2016 at 5:08 PM, Alex Hall ahall@autodist.com wrote:

Hi all,
I’ve finally created an account on the RT wiki. This has been a really
great resource for me, but there are a lot of pages I’ve read in the last
few months with formatting mistakes, grammar problems, outdated information
that’s not marked as not working under 4.x, and so on. I don’t know how
much time I’ll have to edit things, but I hope to try to contribute where I
can by fixing mistakes when I find them. I might add my own pages
eventually, but for now I’ll stick to edits.

What are the conventions by which Best Practical likes people to operate?
For instance, if a page is understandable but could do with better grammar,
is it considered polite to correct it, or should it be left alone? What
other rules and conventions exist that I should keep in mind? Thanks.

–
Alex Hall
Automatic Distributors, IT department
ahall@autodist.com