In an ideal world, I'd go to Fanlore's portal page and be welcomed (so far, so good), then in addition to the "Browse" function, I'd see a clearer "Contribute" option.
In reality, I see that I'm welcome to contribute to the wiki, which is cool, but once I'm logged in and back at the main page, I don't see how. There are Shortcuts for Editors, but nothing under there that just says "Start a new article" or repeats the terminology used in the body, "Create a page."
Once I click on "Create a Page" I guess I'd expect to see the blank wiki page, with its toolbar and its helpful links--I KNOW I've been to that page, but I can't for the life of me find it again. Maybe a prompting question like, "Would you like to use a template?" I honestly think I could take it from there, especially if templates included categories.
A terminology note: Under the personal menu on the left sidebar in the main page, the term "contributions" appears, but in the main body on that page we see "begin editing and adding pages". On the Portal page, we see the terms "New Editor" and "Power Editor".
So, there's some sense that [Editing, Contributing, or Creating] a [Page, Wiki, Contribution] are a whole host of different things. I'm still not sure they are. It seems to me that a person can either originate something, or else edit something already there. The nature of the "something" is determined by its categories. That's my impression, but I only arrived at it after a whole lot of thought and attention, and I'm still not sure it's correct.
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In reality, I see that I'm welcome to contribute to the wiki, which is cool, but once I'm logged in and back at the main page, I don't see how. There are Shortcuts for Editors, but nothing under there that just says "Start a new article" or repeats the terminology used in the body, "Create a page."
Once I click on "Create a Page" I guess I'd expect to see the blank wiki page, with its toolbar and its helpful links--I KNOW I've been to that page, but I can't for the life of me find it again. Maybe a prompting question like, "Would you like to use a template?" I honestly think I could take it from there, especially if templates included categories.
A terminology note: Under the personal menu on the left sidebar in the main page, the term "contributions" appears, but in the main body on that page we see "begin editing and adding pages". On the Portal page, we see the terms "New Editor" and "Power Editor".
So, there's some sense that [Editing, Contributing, or Creating] a [Page, Wiki, Contribution] are a whole host of different things. I'm still not sure they are. It seems to me that a person can either originate something, or else edit something already there. The nature of the "something" is determined by its categories. That's my impression, but I only arrived at it after a whole lot of thought and attention, and I'm still not sure it's correct.
Does that help at all?