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Technical writing with Continuous Integration and docs-as-code

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WikiMedia wiki text – best formatting for step-by-step instructions with graphics for each step?

WikiMedia wiki text – best formatting for step-by-step instructions with graphics for each step?

Getting into the trenches of wiki editing has certainly taught me a lot. My learning has mostly been by trial and error and experimentation. I’m playing around with the best way to use Wikimedia wikitext for step-by-step instructions with graphics for each step. (And wishing that Wikimedia was just HTML based, I know the rules […]

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Author-it and converting UTF-16 to UTF-8

In trying to modify multiple Author-it topics (okay, 5,119 topics) with variable assignments, I have had to work with the XML output that Author-it exports. To export to XML, you select a topic or multi-select topics, then right-click on the selection and choose XML > Save to file. Turns out, Author-it outputs its XML encoded […]

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Community support – don’t think of yourself as a customer but as a member of a movement

Community support – don’t think of yourself as a customer but as a member of a movement

I’ve signed up for the Give 1 Get 1 program for One Laptop Per Child, and just received the email today, November 12, 2007, with the link to the site, www.laptopgiving.org. I read the terms and conditions with interest because I am seriously considering purchasing a laptop either for my son, who is four, or […]