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And my main goal is to post an idea in a classical userforum. Something similar to the arduino-userforum. | And my main goal is to post an idea in a classical userforum. Something similar to the arduino-userforum. | ||
Now I am curoius of somebody well see this page and react to it. | Now I am curoius of somebody well see this page and react to it. | ||
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Hi there Stefan, | |||
We don't have anything that is directly analagous to a traditional userforum, so I'll try and go through what we do have. | |||
[[ | Regarding the Discord, you'll gain the ability to send messages and move through the various channels in the server after reading and reacting to the rules message by clicking the small green tick at the bottom of the rules message you see upon joining the server. | ||
Regarding the Consumer Rights Wiki website, it is a wiki and operates using the same core software and patterns as Wikipedia, which is quite different from a traditional forum. In the medium term, we're aiming to improve our content and guides for new users, but in the meantime if you're completely new to wikis it may be best to look up some videos on Wikipedia and how it functions (or look up explanatory pages on Wikipedia itself - they've documented everything extremely thoroughly over the years). The closest thing to a forum are the discussion or 'talk' pages, where an 'add topic' button in the top right of the page allows you to start topics, and you can reply to the messages of others using the 'reply' button. An example of a discussion page is the [[Consumer Rights Wiki talk:Moderators' noticeboard]]. A discussion page also exists as a companion for every article on the wiki. | |||
The long and short of it is that you can edit almost any page on the wiki in order to contribute and add information, or create your own pages (as you've worked out). The 'edit' button takes you to a what-you-see-is-what-you-get editor. The edit source button at the top of an article allows you to edit it using its code, which is a modified version of markdown called wiki-markdown. If you want to learn a bit more about the kinds of content, and the standards we want to move pages towards, you can take a look at the [[Consumer Rights Wiki:Wiki policy index|Wiki's policy index]]. | |||
I hope this clears some things up for now, and feel free to reach out to me at [email protected] if you have any more issues. | |||
Best wishes, | |||
[[User:Keith|Keith]] (wiki manager) | |||
Latest revision as of 12:35, 4 April 2026
pretty experienced with userforums but really lost here
I looked up the "help" section
I looked up the FaQ
I joined discord
Still I am lost !
non of these pages gave me any information how to proceed.
The creator of this website - at least to me - seem to suffer what I call the experts blindness for beginner difficulties.
I am not a website creator or a wiki creator. Still I would like to contribute to this website.
But I have NO Clue how to do that. As I can NOT not even can post messages on discord
I have chosen this way to send you a message by misusing the "create a page"-function for writing to you
I am NOT familiar with
- discord
- creating wikipages
I do not understand Your concept in which order to read on this website to get started. You assume wayyyy too much knowledge.
And my main goal is to post an idea in a classical userforum. Something similar to the arduino-userforum.
Now I am curoius of somebody well see this page and react to it.
Hi there Stefan,
We don't have anything that is directly analagous to a traditional userforum, so I'll try and go through what we do have.
Regarding the Discord, you'll gain the ability to send messages and move through the various channels in the server after reading and reacting to the rules message by clicking the small green tick at the bottom of the rules message you see upon joining the server.
Regarding the Consumer Rights Wiki website, it is a wiki and operates using the same core software and patterns as Wikipedia, which is quite different from a traditional forum. In the medium term, we're aiming to improve our content and guides for new users, but in the meantime if you're completely new to wikis it may be best to look up some videos on Wikipedia and how it functions (or look up explanatory pages on Wikipedia itself - they've documented everything extremely thoroughly over the years). The closest thing to a forum are the discussion or 'talk' pages, where an 'add topic' button in the top right of the page allows you to start topics, and you can reply to the messages of others using the 'reply' button. An example of a discussion page is the Consumer Rights Wiki talk:Moderators' noticeboard. A discussion page also exists as a companion for every article on the wiki.
The long and short of it is that you can edit almost any page on the wiki in order to contribute and add information, or create your own pages (as you've worked out). The 'edit' button takes you to a what-you-see-is-what-you-get editor. The edit source button at the top of an article allows you to edit it using its code, which is a modified version of markdown called wiki-markdown. If you want to learn a bit more about the kinds of content, and the standards we want to move pages towards, you can take a look at the Wiki's policy index.
I hope this clears some things up for now, and feel free to reach out to me at [email protected] if you have any more issues.
Best wishes,
Keith (wiki manager)