PrattWiki:Community Portal

Introduction

This page is a place for discussions about the Pratt Wiki. Please start new discussions with a new Level 2 section (i.e. put the question on the bottom of the page and surround it with two equals signs). Use lists to make the flow of the conversation clearer, and be sure to sign your entries with ~~~~.

Current Discussions

Eventually, archived discussions will go elsewhere... There just aren't any yet.

Where do FAQs go?

• In writing some of the pages - such as MATLAB - I have started wondering if the FAQs should be on the main page, in the discussion page, or if there should be a new namespace FAQ: for such a thing. In the latter case, there would thus be a MATLAB page with general information, a Talk:MATLAB page for people to discuss the article or pose questions, and a FAQ:MATLAB page that will take the questions from the Talk page that are most likely to come up again... Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. DukeEgr93 21:07, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

Namespaces, Part II

• Here'a another organizational issue. I can see this site having several pages related to a particular program - for example, MATLAB - where perhaps there will be an entire page on making plots. Given that, would it make sense to have name spaces for some of the more popular programs? It would mean being able to name something as MATLAB:Plotting, for example, vs. using Plotting (MATLAB) or something like that. The advantage of a name space is that in advanced searches, you can specifically include or exclude particular namespaces; the first disadvantage that comes to mind is that typically namespaces other than the name one are not searched... DukeEgr93 21:13, 25 June 2008 (UTC)