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Instructions

Below is a list of tasks, categorised by intended audience. There will be overlap so treat this as a rough guide only. Please feel free to add new topics to this list.

To start writing on a topic, change the item in this list into a link (unless it's already a link of course!). To do this you simply surround the text by a pair of square brackets. For example, to make "text" into a link, change it to "[[text]]". Save your change. The link text should now appear in red. Click on this new link and you will be taken to an editor screen for the new page. Enter your new topic text and click save. Simple as that. If you encounter any problems, ask for help on the IRC channel.

When you begin editing a page please add {{inuse}} to the top of the page before you start working on it so that others do not create conflicting changes to the same page. And don't forget to remove it again when you have finished! Thank you.

Reference Information
  • If you are new to MediaWiki then you should consult the User's Guide for information on using the wiki software.
  • List of local wiki templates that can be used in your wiki pages. Templates reduce repetition and are the basis of modular documentation.
  • List of local wiki extensions that have been installed on this wiki. Extensions provide additionally functionality to the wiki such as syntax highlighting and conditional expressions.
  • List of local interwiki links that are available on this wiki. These provide useful shortcuts to creating URLs to other websites including the Joomla! forum, help screens and issue tracker; as well as links to the PHP documentation.
  • Please read the Joomla! Editorial Style Guide.

Audience: Users/Administrators[edit]

Users are visitors to a Joomla! website; administrators are people who install and maintain the website. The assumption is that these people will not know how to write code.

Audience: Web Designers[edit]

Web designers are those people tasked with creating a Joomla! website that will later be looked after by an administrator. These people can be assumed to know about HTML and CSS but may have only minimal knowledge of PHP.

Audience: Core Developers[edit]

By "core developers" we mean developers who are contributing to the Joomla! core distribution which includes the core extensions as well as the Framework.

  • Developer guidelines.
  • Participating in the community: a brief description of how people can get involved.
  • Coding style and standards.
  • Secure coding guidelines.
  • Error message conventions.
  • Exception handling.
  • Patch submission guidelines.
  • Filing bugs/issues.
  • How to release a distribution tarball.
  • Release numbering, compatibility and deprecation.
  • Localisation (L18N): an explanation of how localisation is implemented in Joomla! 1.5 and how to use it.
  • Routing: how it works and how to use it

Audience: Third-party Developers[edit]

By "third-party developers" we mean developers who are working on extensions to Joomla! (components, modules, plugins and templates) which are made available separately from the Joomla! distribution.

Audience: Testers[edit]

These people may be testing functionality from a user perspective; or they may be developers testing the code itself.

  • Automated testing.

Audience: Various[edit]

Stuff that pertains to multiple audiences.

Audience: Documentors[edit]

This is meta documentation for use by the Documentation Working Group and other documentors.

MediaWiki setup notes

License[edit]

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<translate> The contents of this wiki are subject to copyright law and are made available under the Joomla! Electronic Documentation License (JEDL) unless otherwise stated. You may find the JEDL Frequently Asked Questions useful in determining if your proposed use of this material is allowed. If you have any questions regarding licensing of this material please contact legal@opensourcematters.org. If you wish to report a possible violation of the license terms for the material on this site then please contact legal@opensourcematters.org.</translate>