Gnucash wiki

[doncram]

Hi all.  I am interested in helping develop the wiki, also.  I am new to
GnuCash but experienced in accounting and in editing in the English
language Wikipedia.  The categories and templates suggested sound
sensible.  Like Buddha Buck, I have just requested an account on the
http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/GnuCash wiki.

--Doncram

On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 10:49 PM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:

>
> > On May 19, 2017, at 5:07 PM, Chris Good <chris.good at ozemail.com.au>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Message: 7
> >> Date: Fri, 19 May 2017 18:52:27 +0500
> >> From: "David T." <sunfish62 at yahoo.com>
> >> To: Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be>
> >> Cc: Buddha Buck <blaisepascal at gmail.com>, gnucash-devel at gnucash.org
> >> Subject: Re: Gnucash wiki
> >> Message-ID: <0F82A5F6-D023-4687-A2F4-D7C3A3C6CD5B at yahoo.com>
> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
> >>
> > ...
> > The use of suggested categories & templates sounds good to me, if
> some-one
> > has the time to do it.
> >
> > FixMe may be a better category than CanSomeoneElseLookAtThisPlease.
> >
> > I'm not sure dropping pages is a good thing. While reducing noise when
> > searching is good, sometimes historical info is very useful to those
> without
> > a long GnuCash involvement.
> > What is considered an obsolete announcement - pre 2.4 or even older? A
> > consensus of obsolete would be helpful.
> >
> > Geert, are the README pages you refer to mostly the ones for various
> > versions of MacOSX? I've no idea what versions of OSX are considered
> > obsolete.
> >
> > I too have been confused by https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/
> Concept_of_Lots
> > but there is a lot of good info and many useful possible future
> > enhancements.
> > If others think it worthwhile, I'll add some comments to things that may
> be
> > useful but are apparently not currently implemented. I investigated
> anything
> > I was unsure about when I was documenting Lots for the Guide.
> >
> > I agree that information that is available elsewhere, can be linked to or
> > dropped from the wiki, while being very careful not to lose anything
> > possibly valuable.
> >
> > Ooo... - I found http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Eclipse while searching
> the
> > wiki for info re Templates. Maybe this will spur me to move to Eclipse
> which
> > I have been putting off due to not wanting to learn yet another IDE.
>
> Searching "announcement*" produces pages announcing 1.9.0 through 2.2.1  I
> think it would be safe to delete the lot of them, but I suppose we could
> attach a template that flags them as "ancient history".
>
> *readme* search indeed turns up the OSX Readme pages that aren't quite as
> old, the most recent being for 2.4.7, but I'd think removing them would be
> safe too.  The content is duplicated in a file in the respective disk
> images so the information will still be available to anyone who actually
> needs it.
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>
>
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