User talk:Pjandric

Hi Petar

Hope you find your way here. Thanks for contributing to Wikipedia. Sorry if it seems your contributions are getting deleted for unclear reasons. Allow me to explain.

One of the founding statements for Wikipedia is that is an encyclopedia. It is not just a collection of knowledge - there is some knowledge that does not blong in an encyclopedia - it belongs elsewhere. The limits of Wikipedia are described (among other places) here. One of the things it says is Wikipedia is not a how-to book. Instructions for doing things should not be here. That's what people mean by unencyclopedic: something that, however useful it is, doesn't belong in Wikipedia. Now we do have instructions for using Wikipedia itself, but they are not part of the encyclopedia proper: they all start with Help: or Wikipedia: and they are about Wikipedia, not Wikis in general.

Of course there is a place for facts about Wikis in general, and we already have one: the article at Wiki. You are welcome to add things to that article, but not how-to lessons.

I hope that's helpful. People on the Articles for Deletion page to kind of assume that everyone reading it knows what's going on. Incidentally if your purpose is to create coursework for specific lessons in Wiki form then there are two easy ways to go. There are plenty of software packages that allow you to host Wikis on your own computer. Then you have complete control over what is going on. Searching for the software is best, but I don't recommend MediaWiki (the software Wikipedia uses) because it is very large and complicated. Alternatively there are websites that allow you to create your own Wiki, either for a small fee or free.

I hope that helps. DJ Clayworth 17:53, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

The article has been moved to User:Pjandric/Theory and Practise of Wiki - Lesson 1. Johnleemk | Talk 15:25, 7 February 2006 (UTC)