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MacRumors Launches 'Mac Guides'

Just wanted to add my thanks on top of everyone else's arn, I think this is great and ill be an invaluable resource for many members here. Hopefully newbies will be made well aware of the guides as well, as to help alleviate a lot of the standard newbie questions which seemed to get asked repeatedly. This is going to be a great repository of knowledge for MacRumors and is definitely an excellent augmentation to the site. Great work. :cool:
 
Looks very good!

Hopefully this, eventually, will be a complete source of knowledge for newbies and 601's alike. :)

Now, maybe much of the helpful advice and how-tos from some of the excellent, but somewhat hard to find, sticky threads from the forums can be gathered in one easy to find place.
 
I glance over at my RSS folder and see that Mac Rumors has an active story. I click on it thinking, man it's been a while since this site has posted any kind of rumor. And what do I see when it shows up...:rolleyes: Nice known ya MR got to go.
 
Mr.Hey said:
I glance over at my RSS folder and see that Mac Rumors has an active story. I click on it thinking, man it's been a while since this site has posted any kind of rumor. And what do I see when it shows up...:rolleyes: Nice known ya MR got to go.
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I glance over at my mail client and see that a MacRumors thread I have been following has been replied to. I click on it thinking, man what constructive, beneficial, useful comment has been posted this time? And what do I see when I log in... :rolleyes: Nice knowing ya Mr. Hey, got to go. :p :cool:
 
What a wonderful resource and a truly insanely great idea.

Now who's going to start the 3rd-party software entry on Windows? :)
 
glad that wikipedia is taken off well...

it is going to be a really powerful resource centre on the internet

it used to be the case that when i needed to find out something... i had to use Encarta or Britannica... now... these 2 encyclopaedia really lags behind wiki...
 
arn said:
Am working on more tight integration with the forum.

arn
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that should be really cool. i can see this being really really useful.

i can see this making the forums less repitive, with the usual questions now being dealt with by this now and making the forums all the more interesing!

this should make MR so much more useful and cool!
 
great

A fantastic although quite logical idea!!
For me this will help cut through a lot of the surplus info that you have to dig through on the forums in order to get what you want.
 
I've only ever used Wikipedia before, never contributed to any articles. Now that MacRumors has set up these guides, I may have to give myself a crash course in creating and editing content as well! :)
 
I really like this!

I've made a few additions to some of the Guides on there already. I seem to be one of the few people to be doing it though, and it makes me wonder if i'm doing the right thing. :eek:
 
Yo, Arn!!!!

I already posted this, I know, but I want to beat the flood of posts when the thread explodes and make sure I get an answer:

IS THIS PROEJCT CREATIVE COMMONS???


Not meaning to sound rude, btw. It just really affects the wikibook I'm working on, because since the two overlap, people could freely copy information from one to the other (the wikibook is starting to develop and in a few topics are pretty complete).
 
~Shard~ said:
I've only ever used Wikipedia before, never contributed to any articles. Now that MacRumors has set up these guides, I may have to give myself a crash course in creating and editing content as well! :)
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WikiMarkup is (thankfully) as easy as vBulletin forum markup. In fact, they'er very similar.
 
TMA said:
I really like this!

I've made a few additions to some of the Guides on there already. I seem to be one of the few people to be doing it though, and it makes me wonder if i'm doing the right thing. :eek:
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Don't worry, it's going to be a bit of a learning experience for many of us, but the contributions will be appreciated regardless, and there are multiple comprehensive resources at our disposal as well to learn how to set things up and add/maintain content effectively and "properly". :)
 
922 said:
I already posted this, I know, but I want to beat the flood of posts when the thread explodes and make sure I get an answer:

IS THIS PROEJCT CREATIVE COMMONS???


Not meaning to sound rude, btw. It just really affects the wikibook I'm working on, because since the two overlap, people could freely copy information from one to the other (the wikibook is starting to develop and in a few topics are pretty complete).
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I am interested in knowing it too?
 
TMA said:
I really like this!

I've made a few additions to some of the Guides on there already. I seem to be one of the few people to be doing it though, and it makes me wonder if i'm doing the right thing. :eek:
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As ~Shard~ said, don't worry about that. Just contribute as best as you can. If you happen to make a mistake along the way, as we all do from time to time, someone else will fix it. And don't be afraid to ask questions.
 
922 said:
WikiMarkup is (thankfully) as easy as vBulletin forum markup. In fact, they'er very similar.
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Yes, I've been having a look through the "Guide guides" ;) already on how to add content, and it does indeed look pretty straight forward. A bit of a learning curve, as with anything, but something I think I'll be able to get the hang of fairly quickly. :)
 
MontyZ said:
This is a great idea, but, I'm confused ... is this somehow related to Wikipedia, or a totally stand-alone MR wiki?
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Wikipedia and MacRumors:Guides are both based off the same software, thus the same similar appearance.

Shard.. if you can learn to format your posts on forums with BBCode, you can learn to format Wiki pages :)
 
Does the wiki software automatically capitalise the first letter of words or something? Bit of an arse for an Apple related website when the guide has entries called ITunes and IPod.
 
bentley said:
Does the wiki software automatically capitalise the first letter of words or something? Bit of an arse for an Apple related website when the guide has entries called ITunes and IPod.
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;)

Try not to worry too much about it. Just use lowercase i (or e) in the page text and I'm sure it'll work out just fine.

(And, yes, it will always capitalise the first letter).
 
Jesus said:
I haave added a Skype article, how do I make this show under the 3rd party apps category ??

Jesus
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Add [[Category:Third Party Software]] at the bottom.

If you're curious about things like this, take a peek at an existing page and look how it's been done.
 
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