#opendaylight-meeting: tws

Meeting summary

1. agenda bashing (colindixon, 17:00:43)
   1. https://wiki.opendaylight.org/view/Tech_Work_Stream:Main#Upcoming_Meeting_Agendas the agenda in it's usual place (colindixon, 17:01:42)
   2. today, colindixon will try to finish off the advanced wikiing topic and call for more topics for today and next week (colindixon, 17:02:06)
   
   
2. advanced wikiing cont'd (colindixon, 17:04:34)
   1. https://meetings.opendaylight.org/opendaylight-meeting/2015/tws/opendaylight-meeting-tws.2015-09-14-17.02.html on 9/14/2015 we covered some of the more advanced things you can do with the wiki (colindixon, 17:04:53)
   2. https://meetings.webex.com/collabs/url/K0uW-3r4R0PimJxVgv-zeRGaRMS_U2lARlydCkASldO00000 the webex recording from that day (colindixon, 17:05:15)
   3. we covered: templates, trasclusion, and categories (colindixon, 17:05:52)
   
   
3. subpages (colindixon, 17:06:13)
   1. https://wiki.opendaylight.org/view/Documentation the documentation page is a good example of how to use subpages (colindixon, 17:08:16)
   2. colindixon notes that most ODL projects use colons to separate pages and subpages... we should use "/" instead as you get "breadcrumbs" automagically in that event... also, moving pages will also move subpages (phrobb, 17:12:55)
   3. colindixon says that in short, "/" works much better than ":" for naming subpages (phrobb, 17:18:54)
   4. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual%3aTable_of_contents formal docs for table of contents management (colindixon, 17:19:54)
   5. ToCs are autogenterated before the first section of a page when there are at least 3 sections on a given page (phrobb, 17:20:05)
   6. If you put text about the first section, it will appear *before* the ToC. (phrobb, 17:20:35)
   7. you can suppress the ToC by adding __NOTOC__ at the top of a page (phrobb, 17:21:21)
   8. Correct, the __NOTOC__ can be anywhere on the page and it will suppress the ToC (phrobb, 17:22:15)
   9. adding "__TOC__" will place the ToC at that spot on the wiki page (phrobb, 17:22:47)
   
   
4. nowiki (phrobb, 17:23:24)
   1. when you want to show what text in wiki formatting *before* it gets rendered by the wiki, then add <nowiki> and </nowiki> to remove all wiki rendereding (phrobb, 17:25:12)
   2. https://wiki.opendaylight.org/view/Template:Project_Facts this page shows examples of how to use <nowiki> (colindixon, 17:25:14)
   
   
5. Moving pages and redirects (phrobb, 17:26:53)
   1. when you move a page it automatically turns the old one into a redirect to the new one (colindixon, 17:29:11)
   2. the redirect sytax is the whole page being "#REDIRECT [[<page-name>]]" (colindixon, 17:29:29)
   3. it's occasionally useful to change an entire page to a redirect instead of deleting it if there is some new page with better content for the same stuff (colindixon, 17:29:55)
   
   
6. what links here (colindixon, 17:30:03)
   1. in the left navigation there is a link labeled "what links here" and it shows all wiki pages that link to the current one (colindixon, 17:31:01)
   
   
7. special pages (colindixon, 17:31:36)
   1. https://wiki.opendaylight.org/view/Special:SpecialPages (colindixon, 17:31:42)
   
   
8. view history (colindixon, 17:35:53)
   1. if you click on the view history tab of any page, you'll see it's edit history (colindixon, 17:36:10)
   2. if you click on a date it will take to the page after that edit (colindixon, 17:36:25)
   3. if you click permanent link on the left, it will give you a lijnk to the current revision which won't change over time (colindixon, 17:38:27)
   4. that's useful for linking frequently changed stuff (like agendas) into meetings (colindixon, 17:38:41)

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People present (lines said)

1. colindixon (27)
2. phrobb (12)
3. odl_meetbot (4)