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JDOC:Proposals

2013-03-16T14:32:05Z

Bysukro:

This page lists proposals for the Wiki, grouped by year in descending order. If you have a proposal for the Wiki, please edit this page and enter it into the appropriate section. Do not hesitate to express your opinion on a proposal; please do so by editing the relevant section. Please observe the guidelines for editing talk pages. For example, use a quadruple tilde (<nowiki>~~~~</nowiki>) to sign a message with the date and your username.

If you are a member of the [[Documentation Working Group]], please add this page to your watchlist so you will be notified when a new proposal is added.

== 2011 ==

=== Using DPL to allow for truly modular FAQs ===

==== Status ====
'''Proposed'''

=== Discussion ===
[[JDOC:TTP]]'s intention was to create tutorials based on modular pieces of information, and the [[Help screens]] are currently using the Chunk16 namespace for this purpose. However, the popular and important FAQ page [[Security and Performance FAQs]] doesn't do any kind of transclusion. An important factor that prevents this solution from being really practical is that the "index" page, i.e. the one doing the transclusions, needs to be updated every time a new page is added. The DPL plugin can solve this situation. The following code can create the Security FAQ automatically:

<pre>
<DPL>
category = Security FAQ
include = *
format = ,\n== %TITLE% ==\n
</DPL>
</pre>

The only thing limiting the use of this solution is the lack of a guideline for FAQ items. For this solution to work, at least two conditions have to be fulfilled:

# The FAQs may not contain a heading that repeats the title. Apart from the fact that the title will be shown twice on the separate FAQ page, the plugin must handle title creation to ensure a consistent Table of Contents.
# The FAQs must enclose their categories with <code><nowiki><noinclude>...</noinclude></nowiki></code> tags, else their categories will be inherited by the index page.

If such a guideline can be created, I'd be glad to look into adapting all old FAQs to make this solution possible.
[[User:Mvangeest|Mvangeest]] 23:31, 15 January 2011 (UTC)

=== Dropping the Template namespace ===

==== Status ====
'''In progress'''
:All pages have been moved out of the namespace. The namespace may now be deleted so it will not appear in [[Special:Search]]. [[User:Mvangeest|Mvangeest]] 23:18, 15 January 2011 (UTC)

==== Discussion ====
I would like to propose the removal of the Tutorial namespace in favour of the Tutorial category. I can name the following arguments for removal:

* Consistency: there's no FAQ namespace, though API15, API16 etc. are admittedly useful. However, tutorials do not have a significantly 'special' structure that would warrant a namespace.
* Flexibility: categories are easier to add and remove, not to mention the fact that categories can have subcategories and are easier to view an index of.
* Extensions: index articles such as the Management series use the DPL extension, which selects articles based on their categories and not their namespace. For example, [[Tutorial:Override_JFormFields]] is not shown in the list.
* Use: [[:Category:Tutorials]] shows that either documentors are ignorant of the namespace, or they just like categories more, as the majority of the tutorials does not use the namespace. The list of Tutorial: articles can be found on [http://docs.joomla.org/Special:PrefixIndex&namespace=112].
[[User:Mvangeest|Mvangeest]]

:Proposal '''Accepted''' as per [[jtopic:582819]]
[[Category:JDOC Projects]]

JDOC:Patrolled edit

2013-03-16T14:31:43Z

Bysukro:

A new feature in MediaWiki 1.4 is '''Patrolled edits'''. After clicking 'diff' on a change in [[Special:Recentchanges]], you may see a link at the bottom, similar to the one below. Patrolled edits are restricted to administrators in most Mediawiki projects.

<div style="text-align:right;padding-right:10ex;">'''Example''':</div>
<div class="patrollink"><nowiki>[</nowiki> <span class="plainlinks">[{{SERVER}}{{localurl:{{NAMESPACE}}{{PAGENAME}}|action=markpatrolled}} Mark this article as patrolled]</span> <nowiki>]</nowiki></div>

Patrolling edits is a way to indicate that the edit is beneficial, and to aid collaboration on filtering spam and vandalism. In the recent changes list, if you see an article which is good, you can mark it as "patrolled" so that other users know that it is good and do not necessarily have to re-check it.



In the Recent Changes, an unpatrolled edit looks like this:
*(<span class="plainlinks">[{{SERVER}}{{localurl:Joomla:Patrolled edit|curid=17000|diff=0|oldid=0}} diff]</span>) (<span class="plainlinks">[{{SERVER}}{{localurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|curid=4|action=history}} hist]</span>) . . <span class="unpatrolled">!</span> [[{{FULLPAGENAME}}]]; 23:28 . . [[User:Jane Doe|Jane Doe]] ([[User talk:Jane Doe|Talk]])
While a patrolled one would be like this:
*(<span class="plainlinks">[{{SERVER}}{{localurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|curid=17000|diff=0|oldid=0}} diff]</span>) (<span class="plainlinks">[{{SERVER}}{{localurl:Joomla:Patrolled edit|curid=4|action=history}} hist]</span>) . . [[{{FULLPAGENAME}}]]; 23:28 . . [[User:Jane Doe|Jane Doe]] ([[User talk:Jane Doe|Talk]])

== Enabling ==
To enable patrolling, add this line to <tt>LocalSettings.php</tt>:
$wgUseRCPatrol = true;
Note that fresh installs of version 1.4 enable RC Patrol by default.

To enable new page patrol (implemented in 1.12), add this line to <tt>LocalSettings.php</tt>:
$wgUseNPPatrol = true;

== Restricting patrolling access to sysops ==
If you don't want users without Administrator access to be able to mark edits as patrolled, add the following line to <tt>LocalSettings.php</tt>:
$wgOnlySysopsCanPatrol = true;
[[Category:JDOC Projects]]

JDOC:Modular documentation

2013-03-16T14:31:21Z

Bysukro:

{{Introduction to Modular Documentation}}

==Transclusion==
{{Introduction to Transclusion}}

==Further Reading==
{{Further Reading on Modular Documentation}}
[[Category:JDOC Projects]]

JDOC:MediaWiki setup notes

2013-03-16T14:31:07Z

Bysukro:

These are some notes about setting up a MediaWiki for use by the Documentation Working Group.

==mod_rewrite rules for this wiki==
Invaluable information [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Short_URL/Page_title_--_PHP_as_a_CGI_module%2C_no_root_access here]. To begin with we have these rewrite rules in place:
<pre>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^[^:]*\. - [L]
RewriteRule ^[^:]*\/ - [L]
RewriteRule ^/*$ /wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ /wiki/index.php?title=$1 [L,QSA]
</pre>
However, because we have some pages which have dots in their titles (and hence their URLs), we had to apply the following rewrite rules:

<pre>
RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !index.php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -l
RewriteRule ^(.+) /path/to/web/directory/$1 [L]

# redirect to main page
RewriteRule ^/*$ /index.php?title=Main_Page [L,QSA]

# anything else is to be treated as a title
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !index.php
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ /index.php?title=$1 [L,QSA]
</pre>

==Page redirections==
In the default MediaWiki installation it is possible to redirect from one page to another by including <nowiki>#REDIRECT [[page-to-redirect-to]]</nowiki> at the very top of a page. However, this does not alter the URL shown in the browser address bar and so could lead search engines to consider it as duplicate content. A simple fix has been applied to this wiki so that redirects are done by the browser by having the wiki send out an HTTP 302 redirect status code. The fix applied is [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Redirect Force all redirects to be client side redirects (HTTP 302 Temporary Redirect)]
[[Category:JDOC Projects]]

JDOC:Local wiki references

2013-03-16T14:30:48Z

Bysukro:

* List of '''[[JDOC:Local wiki templates|local wiki templates]]''' that can be used in your wiki pages. Templates reduce repetition and are the basis of modular documentation.
* List of '''[[JDOC:Local wiki extensions|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 '''[[JDOC:Local interwiki links|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 [http://php.net/manual PHP documentation] or [[wikipedia:Main_Page|Wikipedia]].
[[Category:JDOC Projects]]

JDOC:Local wiki extensions

2013-03-16T14:30:33Z

Bysukro:

<p style="text-align:center;border:1px solid #ccc">[[JDOC:Local wiki templates|Local wiki templates]] • [[JDOC:Local wiki extensions|Local wiki extensions]] • [[JDOC:Local interwiki links|Local interwiki links]]</p>
Extensions are additions to the MediaWiki code that perform special functions.

===Syntax Highlighting===
The GeSHi syntax-highlighter extension<ref>Further information can be found [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi here].</ref> has been installed on this wiki. For PHP code use <nowiki><source lang="php">Your PHP code here</source></nowiki>.<br />
For HTML code use <nowiki><source lang="html4strict">Your HTML markup here</source></nowiki>.<br />
etc. IF you add an invalid lang name, you'll presented with a list of supported "languages".

For example, inserting the following in your wiki page:
<pre>
<source lang="php">
<?php
echo "Hello World\n";
?>
</source>
</pre>

will result in:
<source lang="php">
<?php
echo "Hello World\n";
?>
</source>

HTML example:
<source lang="html4strict">
<html lang="en">
<head>
<title>Joomla! Documentation</title>
<link rel="StyleSheet" href="doccamp.css" type="text/css" media="screen,projection" />
</head>
<body class="foo">
...
</body>
</html>
</source>
Available '''lang'' attributes are: <tt>abap, actionscript, ada, '''apache''', applescript, asm, asp, autoit, '''bash''', blitzbasic, bnf, c, c_mac, caddcl, cadlisp, cfdg, cfm, cpp, cpp-qt, csharp, '''css''', d, delphi, '''diff''', div, dos, dot, eiffel, fortran, freebasic, genero, gml, groovy, haskell, '''html4strict''', idl, ini, inno, io, java, java5, '''javascript''', latex, lisp, lua, m68k, matlab, mirc, mpasm, '''mysql''', nsis, objc, ocaml, ocaml-brief, oobas, oracle8, pascal, per, '''perl''', '''php''', '''php-brief''', plsql, python, qbasic, rails, reg, robots, ruby, sas, scheme, sdlbasic, smalltalk, smarty, '''sql''', tcl, text, thinbasic, tsql, vb, vbnet, vhdl, visualfoxpro, winbatch, '''xml''', xpp, z80</tt>

===References and Footnotes===
In your article or tutorial you may want to add external links but they may clutter the text and reduce readability. In order to add a reference<ref>don't take a reference literally: it may well be any URL other than Wikipedia or Webster</ref> enclose the text in a ref element: <nowiki><ref>your reference entry</ref></nowiki>. At the end of the page add <nowiki><references /></nowiki> to display a list of all ref(erence) entries.
* MediaWiki manual about [[mwhelp:Footnotes|Footnotes]]

===Link Search===
You found a URL used in an article is broken and want to fix it? No problem, hit edit and make the changes. But what if that URL is also used someplace else or in a whole series or pages? The wiki doesn't provide a global search and replace facility and using the standard search function can be tedious and even unsuccessful. Head over to this Special page, type in the bogus URL and find every article that contains the external link: [[Special:Linksearch]]

<references />

[[Category:JDOC Projects]]

JDOC:Local interwiki links

2013-03-16T14:30:17Z

Bysukro:

<p style="text-align:center;border:1px solid #ccc">[[JDOC:Local wiki templates|Local wiki templates]] • [[JDOC:Local wiki extensions|Local wiki extensions]] • [[JDOC:Local interwiki links|Local interwiki links]]</p>
An interwiki link is a kind of short-cut link that allows you to link to an external website (it doesn't have to be another wiki) using a simple syntax similar to an internal page link. The interwiki reference takes a single parameter and uses it to construct the full URL to the external site.

The following Joomla!-specific interwiki links are supported in this wiki.

===Linking to a board in forum.joomla.org===
To link to a specific forum board in forum.joomla.org you can use this syntax:
<pre>
[[jforum:#####]]
</pre>
where ##### is replaced by the board number. For example, the Developer Documentation Forum is board number 303 and so can be linked to by inserting <nowiki>[[jforum:303]]</nowiki> into the wiki page. Just to prove it works, here it is: [[jforum:303]]. Piped links work too, so <pre>[[jforum:303|Documentation - Feedback/Information/Suggestions]]</pre> is rendered as: [[jforum:303|Documentation - Feedback/Information/Suggestions]]

To make things a little bit easier when linking to any of the well-known ''Working Group'' fora you can use the {{tlx|jforum}} template. It accepts a (hopefully) easy to remember keyword instead of a number to create a link. Instead of <nowiki>[[jforum:303]]</nowiki> you can use {{tlx|jforum|devdoc}} or {{tlx|jforum|ddt}} ('''D'''eveloper '''D'''ocumentation '''T'''eam). And to prove the template works equally well, here's how both keywords are rendered: {{jforum|devdoc}} and {{jforum|ddt}}.

===Linking to a topic in forum.joomla.org===
To link to a specific forum topic (thread) in forum.joomla.org you can use this syntax:
<pre>
[[jtopic:#####]]
</pre>
where ##### is replaced by the topic number. For example, the forum thread announcing the first Joomla! Doc Camp is topic number 248141 and so can be linked to by inserting <nowiki>[[jtopic:248141]]</nowiki> into the wiki page. Just to prove it works, here it is: [[jtopic:248141]]. Piped links work too, so <pre>[[jtopic:248141|Joomla! Doc Camp]]</pre> is rendered as: [[jtopic:248141|Joomla! Doc Camp]]

===Linking to a tracker item in JoomlaCode.org===
To link to a specific tracker item (eg. a bug report) in JoomlaCode.org you can use this syntax:
<pre>
[[jtracker:#####]]
</pre>
where ##### is replaced by the tracker ID number. For example, the tracker item "Issue with (Today) string" is tracker number 8867 and so can be linked to by inserting <nowiki>[[jtracker:8867]]</nowiki> into the wiki page. Just to prove it works, here it is: [[jtracker:8867]]. Piped links work too, so <pre>[[jtracker:8867|Issue with (Today) string]]</pre> is rendered as: [[jtracker:8867|Issue with (Today) string]]. Note that you will probably''' need to be logged into JoomlaCode''' for these links to work as expected.

===Linking to a help screen on help.joomla.org===
To link to a help screen on the Joomla! help site using a key reference you can use this syntax:
<pre>
[[jhelp:#####]]
</pre>
where ##### is replaced by the help screen key reference. For example, the help screen for the Global Configuration screen in Joomla! 1.5 has key reference "screen.config.15" and so can be linked to by inserting <nowiki>[[jhelp:screen.config.15]]</nowiki> into the wiki page. Just to prove it works, here it is: [[jhelp:screen.config.15]]. Piped links work too, so <pre>[[jhelp:screen.config.15|Global Configuration]]</pre> is rendered as: [[jhelp:screen.config.15|Global Configuration]].

===Linking to PHP documentation===
To link to a reference page on php.net you can use this syntax:
<pre>
[[php:xxxxxxxxx]]
</pre>
where xxxxxxxxx is replaced by a word, usually a PHP function name. For example, the reference page for the PHP strlen() function can be linked to by inserting <nowiki>[[php:strlen]]</nowiki> into the wiki page. Just to prove it works, here it is: [[php:strlen]]. Piped links work too, so <pre>[[php:strlen|strlen()]]</pre> is rendered as: [[php:strlen|strlen()]].

===Linking to Wikipedia===
To link to a page on (english) wikipedia.org you can use this syntax:
<pre>
[[wikipedia:xxxxxxxxx]]
</pre>
where xxxxxxxxx is the target page name. For example, the Joomla! page can be linked to by inserting <nowiki>[[wikipedia:Joomla!]]</nowiki>. Just to prove it works, here it is: [[wikipedia:Joomla!]]. Piped links work too, so <nowiki>[[wikipedia:Joomla!|]]</nowiki> is rendered as: [[wikipedia:Joomla!|Joomla!]].
[[Category:JDOC Projects]]

JDOC:Joomla! versions

2013-03-16T14:29:40Z

Bysukro:

This Wiki aims to document as many (non-deprecated) versions of Joomla! (both the CMS and the Platform) as possible so as to provide relevant information for all users. Therefore it is important to indicate the version(s) each piece of information (e.g. page, paragraph) applies to clearly and uniformly. This page summarizes and explains the methods for organizing and tagging Wiki content with specific versions.

== Icons ==

Icons are a quick and familiar way for users to recognize whether a page applies to their version of Joomla. Icons can currently be added using [[Template:JVer|the JVer template]], which can be used for placing CMS version icons, Platform verson icons and a generic Platform icon. For example,

* <code><nowiki>{{JVer|1.7}}</nowiki></code> will produce {{JVer|1.7}}
* <code><nowiki>{{JVer|11.1}}</nowiki></code> will produce {{JVer|11.1}}
* <code><nowiki>{{JVer|platform}}</nowiki></code> will produce {{JVer|platform}}

== Categories ==

Placing pages in subcategories of [[:Category:Joomla! versions]] ensures they can be found through the index page for the corresponding Joomla! versions. You can place a page in more than one category if it applies to multiple versions of Joomla!.

== Page names ==

Some pages apply specifically to one version or some versions of Joomla!. In these cases, it makes sense to insert the version number(s) into the page title.

Currently, there is no consensus on the naming scheme for page titles. Authors should decide if and how to mention version numbers. If maximum clarity is required, version numbers should be incorporated '''directly into the text''' (e.g. ''User management in Joomla! 1.5''). '''Subpages''' can be used if many different pages are necessary (e.g. ''User management/1.0'', ''User management/1.5'', ''User management/1.6'').
[[Category:JDOC Projects]]

JDOC:Image naming guidelines

2013-03-16T14:29:15Z

Bysukro:

The image naming convention aims to:
* Reduce the likelihood of image name clashes; and
* Increase the likelihood that images are re-used.

Image names should consist of an underscore-separated list of pre-defined tags, detailed below. Tags are generally in order of least specific to most specific and the date on which the image is created or uploaded is appended. Additional tags can be defined as required. Some typical image names are:
<pre>
screenshot_content_article_manager_full_20090117.png
screenshot_site_global_config_seo_settings_annotated_20090117.png
</pre>
The format is defined as:
<pre>
<filename> ::= <tag-list>_<yyyy><mm><dd>.<extension>
<tag-list> ::= <tag> | <tag>_<tag-list>
<yyyy> ::= 4-digit year number
<mm> ::= 2-digit month number
<dd> ::= 2-digit day number
<extension> ::= 'png' | 'jpg' | 'jpeg' | 'gif'
</pre>

To further promote image re-use, all image tags have a corresponding category on this wiki and care should be taken to ensure that images are correctly assigned to their relevant categories as defined below.
==Top-level Tags==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!Tag
!Description
!Category
|-
|screenshot
|Image is a screenshot of the Joomla package. See below for subsidiary tags.
|[[:Category:Joomla screenshots]]
|-
|eclipse
|Image is a screenshot of the Eclipse package.
|[[:Category:Eclipse screenshots]]
|-
|phpmyadmin
|Image is a screenshot of the phpMyAdmin package.
|[[:Category:PhpMyAdmin screenshots]]
|-
|diagram
|Image is a diagram.
|[[:Category:Diagrams]]
|-
|chart
|Image is a chart.
|[[:Category:Charts]]
|}

===Joomla screenshots Tags===
These tags are defined as subsidiary to the ''screenshot'' tag. They mostly correspond to the top-level menus in the Administrator, plus the template names for screenshots of the front-end.
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!Tag
!Description
!Category
|-
|site
|Site menu. See below for subsidiary tags.
|[[:Category:Site screenshots]]
|-
|menus
|Menus menu. See below for subsidiary tags.
|[[:Category:Menus screenshots]]
|-
|content
|Content menu. See below for subsidiary tags.
|[[:Category:Content screenshots]]
|-
|components
|Components menu. See below for subsidiary tags.
|[[:Category:Component screenshots]]
|-
|extensions
|Extensions menu. See below for subsidiary tags.
|[[:Category:Extensions screenshots]]
|-
|tools
|Tools menu. See below for subsidiary tags.
|[[:Category:Tools screenshots]]
|-
|help
|Help menu. See below for subsidiary tags.
|[[:Category:Help screenshots]]
|-
|milky_way
|Screenshots of the Milky Way template.
|[[:Category:Milky Way screenshots]]
|-
|beez
|Screenshots of the Beez template.
|[[:Category:Beez screenshots]]
|-
|ja_purity
|Screenshots of the JA_Purity template.
|[[:Category:Ja_purity screenshots]]
|-
|installation
|Screenshots of Joomla installation.
|[[:Category:Installation screenshots]]
|-
|parameter
|Screenshots of generic parameters.
|[[:Category:Parameters screenshots]]
|}

====Site screenshots Tags====
These tags are defined as subsidiary to the ''screenshot'' and ''site'' tags. They correspond to sub-menu items under the ''Site'' menu in the Administrator.
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!Tag
!Description
!Category
|-
|control_panel
|Screenshots of '''Site -> Control Panel'''.
|[[:Category:Control panel screenshots]]
|-
|user_manager
|Screenshots of '''Site -> User Manager'''.
|[[:Category:User manager screenshots]]
|-
|media_manager
|Screenshots of '''Site -> Media Manager'''.
|[[:Category:Media manager screenshots]]
|-
|global_config
|Screenshots of '''Site -> Global Configuration'''.
|[[:Category:Global configuration screenshots]]
|}

====Menus screenshots Tags====
These tags are defined as subsidiary to the ''screenshot'' and ''menus'' tags. They correspond to sub-menu items under the ''Menus'' menu in the Administrator.
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!Tag
!Description
!Category
|-
|menu_manager
|Screenshots of '''Menus -> Menu Manager'''.
|[[:Category:Menu manager screenshots]]
|-
|menu_trash
|Screenshots of '''Menus -> Menu Trash'''.
|[[:Category:Menu trash screenshots]]
|-
|main_menu
|Screenshots of the sample content Main Menu.
|[[:Category:Main menu screenshots]]
|}

====Content screenshots Tags====
These tags are defined as subsidiary to the ''screenshot'' and ''content'' tags. They correspond to sub-menu items under the ''Content'' menu in the Administrator.
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!Tag
!Description
!Category
|-
|article_manager
|Screenshots of '''Content -> Article Manager'''.
|[[:Category:Article manager screenshots]]
|-
|article_trash
|Screenshots of '''Content -> Article trash'''.
|[[:Category:Article trash screenshots]]
|-
|section_manager
|Screenshots of '''Content -> Section Manager'''.
|[[:Category:Section manager screenshots]]
|-
|category_manager
|Screenshots of '''Content -> Category Manager'''.
|[[:Category:Category manager screenshots]]
|-
|front_page_manager
|Screenshots of '''Content -> Front Page Manager'''.
|[[:Category:Front page manager screenshots]]
|}

====Components screenshots Tags====
These tags are defined as subsidiary to the ''screenshot'' and ''components'' tags. They correspond to sub-menu items under the ''Components'' menu in the Administrator.
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!Tag
!Description
!Category
|-
|banner_banners
|Screenshots of '''Components -> Banners -> Banners'''.
|[[:Category:Banners banners screenshots]]
|-
|banner_clients
|Screenshots of '''Components -> Banners -> Clients'''.
|[[:Category:Banners clients screenshots]]
|-
|banner_categories
|Screenshots of '''Components -> Banners -> Categories'''.
|[[:Category:Banners categories screenshots]]
|-
|contacts_contacts
|Screenshots of '''Components -> Contact -> Contacts'''.
|[[:Category:Contacts contacts screenshots]]
|-
|contacts_categories
|Screenshots of '''Components -> Contact -> Categories'''.
|[[:Category:Contacts categories screenshots]]
|-
|news_feeds_feeds
|Screenshots of '''Components -> News feeds -> Feeds'''.
|[[:Category:News feeds feeds screenshots]]
|-
|news_feeds_categories
|Screenshots of '''Components -> News feeds -> Categories'''.
|[[:Category:News feeds categories screenshots]]
|-
|polls
|Screenshots of '''Components -> Polls'''.
|[[:Category:Polls screenshots]]
|-
|search
|Screenshots of '''Components -> Search'''.
|[[:Category:Search screenshots]]
|-
|web_links_links
|Screenshots of '''Components -> Web links -> Links'''.
|[[:Category:Web links links screenshots]]
|-
|web_links_categories
|Screenshots of '''Components -> Web links -> Categories'''.
|[[:Category:Web links categories screenshots]]
|}

====Extensions screenshots Tags====
These tags are defined as subsidiary to the ''screenshot'' and ''extensions'' tags. They correspond to sub-menu items under the ''Extensions'' menu in the Administrator.
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!Tag
!Description
!Category
|-
|install
|Screenshots of '''Extensions -> install/uninstall'''.
|[[:Category:Extensions install screenshots]]
|-
|module_manager
|Screenshots of '''Extensions -> Module Manager'''.
|[[:Category:Module manager screenshots]]
|-
|plugin_manager
|Screenshots of '''Extensions -> Plugin Manager'''.
|[[:Category:Plugin manager screenshots]]
|-
|template_manager
|Screenshots of '''Extensions -> Template Manager'''.
|[[:Category:Template manager screenshots]]
|-
|language_manager
|Screenshots of '''Extensions -> Language Manager'''.
|[[:Category:Language manager screenshots]]
|}

====Tools screenshots Tags====
These tags are defined as subsidiary to the ''screenshot'' and ''tools'' tags. They correspond to sub-menu items under the ''Tools'' menu in the Administrator.
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!Tag
!Description
!Category
|-
|read_messages
|Screenshots of the '''Tools -> Read messages''' screen.
|[[:Category:Read messages screenshots]]
|-
|write_message
|Screenshots of the '''Tools -> Write message''' screen.
|[[:Category:Write message screenshots]]
|-
|mass_mail
|Screenshots of the '''Tools -> Mass mail''' screen.
|[[:Category:Mass mail screenshots]]
|-
|global_check-in
|Screenshots of the '''Tools -> Global check-in''' screen.
|[[:Category:Global check-in screenshots]]
|-
|clean_cache
|Screenshots of the '''Tools -> Clean cache''' screen.
|[[:Category:Clean cache screenshots]]
|}

====Help screenshots Tags====
These tags are defined as subsidiary to the ''screenshot'' and ''help'' tags. They correspond to sub-menu items under the ''Help'' menu in the Administrator.
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!Tag
!Description
!Category
|-
|joomla_help
|Screenshots of the '''Help -> Joomla help''' screen.
|[[:Category:Joomla help screenshots]]
|-
|system_info
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JDOC:Editors

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Bysukro:

List of editors on the Joomla! Documentation Wiki

{{userlist|Addacumen‏‎,Ahage,Alledia‏‎,AmyStephen‏‎,Andph‏‎,Bembelimen,Coder4life‏‎,Elin‏‎,Jcutrone‏‎,Jen4web‏‎,Jmcameron,Joomlacorner,LegacyDave‏‎,LornaS,MMMedia‏‎,Mvangeest‏‎,Nathan,Noxidsoft‏‎,Ot2sen‏‎,Pasamio,Pe7er,Robin.muilwijk,Severdia‏‎,Wgviana
}}

==Editors of VEL==
These Documentation Wiki editors are responsible for maintaining the VEL.
{{userlist|Lafrance,Mandville‏‎,Phild‏‎}}
[[Category:JDOC Projects]]

JDOC:Developer Tutorials Project/Topics

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Bysukro:

[[Category:JDOC Projects]]

JDOC:Developer Tutorials Project/Projects

2013-03-16T14:28:05Z

Bysukro:

====Currently Maintained====
* [[Developing_a_Model-View-Controller_Component/2.5|Developing a Model-View-Controller Component]] {{JVer|2.5}}
* [[Developing_a_Model-View-Controller_Component/3.0|Developing a Model-View-Controller Component]] {{JVer|3.0}}
[[Category:JDOC Projects]]

JDOC:Developer Tutorials Project/Opentask

2013-03-16T14:27:50Z

Bysukro:

====To Do List==== 
These are a few 'to do's' to get this project started
* Organisation of project
* Need maintainers of example files on GitHub
* Move example files to GitHub and correct links in current tutorials
* Dev sign-ups [[JDOC_talk:Developer Tutorials Project|use talk page]]
* Identify current articles to include in Dev Tutorials Project
:* Add to [[JDOC:Developer Tutorials Project#Topics|Topics]]
* User page badge to identify project volunteers
:*Contribution recognition on pages and this project page
[[Category:JDOC Projects]]

JDOC:Developer Tutorials Project/News

2013-03-16T14:27:34Z

Bysukro:

The '''JDOC Developer Tutorials Project''' was started on Mon, 11 Feb 2013 in an effort to benefit the users of the Joomla! Documentation Wiki.
[[Category:JDOC Projects]]

JDOC:Developer Tutorials Project/Get Involved

2013-03-16T14:27:02Z

Bysukro:

<div style="border:1px solid #BBD9EE; background-color:#c0c0c0; padding:0.1em 0.5em 0.15em 0.5em; font-size:1.05em; font-weight:bold;">Join This JDOC Project</div>
<div style="margin:10px 10px">
You don't need to join the [[Documentation Working Group]] to help improve and maintain the Joomla! Documentation Wiki. '''You don't need to be an expert on writing Joomla! extensions!''' There are many tasks which can help you '''learn''' Joomla! development while helping maintain the Tutorial pages. Please note that registration on this wiki is entirely separate from registration on other Joomla! sites, such as the [http://forum.joomla.org Joomla! forum].
* Just '''[[Special:Userlogin|Register and login]]''' on this wiki to get started.
* Already registered, sign up to help this particular JDOC Project on the '''[[JDOC_talk:Developer Tutorials Project|Talk page]]''' with your wiki signature('4' tildes '<nowiki>~~~~</nowiki>') and task(s). '''Make sure you check the 'Watch this page' box or alternatively, you can add the project page to your [[Special:Watchlist|Watchlist]]. It will keep you up to date on the project.
::For example:
:::<nowiki>~~~~ - categorisation</nowiki>
:::<nowiki>~~~~ - techinical review</nowiki>
:::<nowiki>~~~~ - project tasks page</nowiki>
:::<nowiki>~~~~ - update project tasks page, technical reviewer</nowiki>
* Not sure you can help this project, or think you can help somewhere else? Join a different '''[[JDOC:JDOC Projects|JDOC Project!]]''' The Joomla! Docs Wiki is a collaborative community-contributed resource of the Joomla! project. Everyone's help is appreciated and needed to maintain it.

===== Want to help but don't know how? =====
If you would like to contribute to the Wiki and just don't know where to start, please contact a member of the Documentation Working Group.
* '''[[Portal:JDOCs Wiki Help|Learn how to edit]]'''
:* [[Contacts|Ask an editor or admin for help]]

===== Help Improve the Joomla! Docs Wiki =====
* Suggest ideas and give your feedback for future articles or improvements to existing content. Post your thoughts on our [[JDOC_talk:Docs Wiki Roadmap|Roadmap talk page]].
* Add or edit pages list in [[Portal:All Portals#Portal_Project|the Portal pages]].
* Work on one of the [[:Category:Needs_content|Joomla! Docs Wiki pages]] that are in need of additional content.
</div>
[[Category:JDOC Projects]]

JDOC:Developer Tutorials Project/FAQs

2013-03-16T14:26:44Z

Bysukro:

====What is the goal of this project?====
To create, improve and maintain a high quality set of developer tutorials.
====Do I have join this project to contribute to the Tutorial pages?====
Not at all, but it helps to centralized the effort and keep duplicate work to a minimum on the Docs Wiki. See below, '''How much time...'''
====Why do I have to sign up on for the project?====
You are letting others know how you will contribute, even if it is in a small way. It will also add the discussion page to your [[Special:Watchlist|Watchlist]] if you check the 'Watch this page' before you post. This is so you will receive news and more user notices of involvement in the project.
====How much time is involved? I'm just too busy right now.====
Your time and contributions are always appreciated! One small task might take only 5 mins a week of time (e.g. adding one page in a Tutorial series to your [[Special:Watchlist|Watchlist]] to track changes). See above, '''Do I have to join to contribute...'''

[[Category:JDOC Projects]]

JDOC:Developer Tutorials Project/Did you know

2013-03-16T14:26:25Z

Bysukro:

The tutorial start page, [[Developing_a_Model-View-Controller_Component/2.5/Developing_a_Basic_Component|Developing a Basic Component]] is in the top 10 of pages sought on the Joomla! Docs Wiki?
[[Category:JDOC Projects]]

JDOC:Bots

2013-03-16T14:26:08Z

Bysukro:

A registered bot account. Edits by an account with this set will not appear by default in [[wikipedia:Help:Recent changes|Recent changes]]; this is intended for mass imports of data without flooding human edits from view. (To show bot edits, either click the "Show bots" link on the [[Special:Recentchanges]] page, or append ''&hidebots=0'' directly to the page [[Wikipedia:URL|URL]], or [{{fullurl:Special:Recentchanges|hidebots=0}} like this] on {{SITENAME}}.)

==Bots used by server admins==
;Delete page script
:bulk deletion of pages
;Maintenance script
:as the name implies, performs maintenance tasks
;Migration script
:content migration from (old) wiki

==Bots used by users==
Pending accounts:
* ChrisBot by [[User:Chris Davenport]]
* CirTapBot by [[User:CirTap]]
* IanBot by [[User:Ian]]
* MariekeBot by [[User:Marieke92]]
[[Category:JDOC Projects]]

JDOC:About

2013-03-16T14:25:33Z

Bysukro:

{{RightTOC}}
The '''Joomla! Documentation Wiki''' contains collaborative community-contributed documentation for the Joomla! project.
== Wiki Policies and Guidelines ==
* [[JDOC:Wiki policy|Wiki policy]]
== Wiki Help ==
* [[Help:Contents|Wiki help]]
== JDOC Projects (Helping the wiki) ==

== Joomla! Electronic Documentation License==
* [[JEDL|License]] and [[JEDL/FAQ|License FAQ]]
== Privacy policy ==
* [[JDOC:Privacy policy|Privacy policy]]
[[Category:JDOC Projects]]

JDOC:Developer Tutorials Project/FAQs

2013-03-16T14:24:40Z

Bysukro:

JDOC:Developer Tutorials Project/Did you know

2013-03-16T14:24:23Z

Bysukro:

JDOC:Bots

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Bysukro:

JDOC:About

2013-03-16T14:23:36Z

Bysukro:

GHOP students 2007-2008/Zach Kanzler

2013-03-16T14:08:18Z

Bysukro:

[[Image:theY4Kman.jpg|thumb|Zach Kanzler (theY4Kman)]]

My name is Zach Kanzler, A.K.A. theY4Kman. I live in the United States, specifically in Florida. I'm a bit of a geek, so I love tech toys and other things. I love to program, well, anything!

I participated in GHOP because I was always intrigued by the Summer of Code. I've wanted to participate in it since I first learned about it. Alas, though, I couldn't. One day I was visiting Google Code to check on the Google APIs and noticed GHOP. After reading about it, I couldn't wait to get started. I looked through the participants, noting Apache, Joomla!, and Python. I viewed the tasks for each of them and found that Joomla! had the most and the ones that I was interested in.

Throughout my participation in GHOP, I was treated with nothing but help and friendliness. Everyone I met was so nice and I received much help from them all. The only thing I would want to change is to have more participants and more tasks!
[[Category:GHOP]]

GHOP students 2007-2008/Yavor Sashov Georgiev

2013-03-16T14:08:03Z

Bysukro:

[[Image:Yavor.jpg|thumb|Yavor Sashov Georgiev (fealebenpae)]]

''Location:'' Vidin, Bulgaria

I'm a senior at the Mathematics and Science High School in Vidin. My educational profile has an emphasis on Computer Science. I'm
interested in computers (obviously), sci-fi and fantasy, philosophy, literature and also music and dancing. I'm currently pursuing
university education in the US.

I learned about GHOP on Digg and thank god, otherwise I might've missed the opportunity. I checked out the participating projects and I chose Joomla because I have experience in building/maintaining my high school's website and because I was secretly itching to code some more.

Being a part of GHOP and the J! community has been really fun, no complaints whatsoever, although I feel the participating Joomla folks have been a bit (and that's an understatement) overworked and perhaps next year things would move faster and smoother if there are more J! volunteers.
[[Category:GHOP]]

GHOP students 2007-2008/Witchakorn Kamolpornwijit

2013-03-16T14:07:47Z

Bysukro:

[[Image:chalet.jpg|thumb|Witchakorn Kamolpornwijit (Chalet16)]]

My name is Witchakorn Kamolpornwijit. My Joomla! ID is Chalet16. I am from Thailand, South-East Asia. I am studying in grade 8, Patumwan Demonstration School. I am interested in C, PHP and network administration. I wish to create new open source project in the future.

I decided to join the Google Highly Open Participation Contest because I would like to learn more about developing these popular open source software.

I appreciate Joomla! because it very useful for most of the people who interested in creating new website with not much knowledge about HTML or PHP. I think I would like to have experiences in PHP and practical open source project management.

I think my tasks would be practical for most of people. For example footnotes plug-in can be used in many websites or DTD XML installer files can be standardize for Joomla! project in the future.

I think you should give the participants clearer details about the purpose of the task. In my opinion I suggest you to provide more coding tasks in the future.
[[Category:GHOP]]

GHOP students 2007-2008/Wickrama Arachchi Vithanage Hashani Maduwanthi Weerarathna

2013-03-16T14:07:31Z

Bysukro:

My full name is Wickrama Arachchi Vithanage Hashani Maduwanthi Weerarathna, a girl, sixteen years old. Joomla! forum ID is hashani.

''- the country and region you are from''

I'm from Sri Lanka. The district I related is Colombo.

''- a little bit about yourself and your interests''

I'm Hashani, a girl, sixteen years old, l would like to learn information technology and
work with global people and global tasks. Actually I know it is a nice to exchange my
ideas with the friends from different countries. I'm interested in eastern music, playing
music instruments, reading, cooking and gardening. And also I prefer to spend time
with my family. One day I want to be a doctor and help people who live in my country.

''Why you decided to join the contest and why you choose Joomla!''

I got a basic idea about Opensource from one of my sister who worked with a project of
Google Summer Of Code competition and I also wanted to involve with such things.
I heard Joomla! and it was Better, Easy to use, Flexible. Also it has very lively support
community. Then I chose joomla! task for my first GHOP task.

''- some thoughts on your experience in GHOP''

I learned lot of things like what is a CMS and how it will be used. Except that it was a great
opportunity for me to improve my writing skills, communication skills as well. And more
importantly I learned what is "working as part of a community".

''- ideas on how we might make this better in the future''

I would like to give my contribution further to the joomla! and have a great time with great
people and great tasks. :)
[[Category:GHOP]]

GHOP students 2007-2008/Tomasz Dobrzyński

2013-03-16T14:07:15Z

Bysukro:

[[Image:Depresz.jpg|thumb|Tomasz Dobrzyński ([[User:depresz|depresz]])]]

My name is Tomasz Dobrzyński, I am 18. On Joomla! forum I am known as depresz. I come from city of Piotrków Trybunalski, central Poland.

I am student of 2nd year in the one of the local High School. My interests are computers, especially programming; I love it. I decided
to join contest because I always wanted to participate in some Open Source project, but I did not know how to start. GHOP gave me this
opportunity.

I have chosen Joomla! project because I made up my mind that I will discover new horizons which provide Joomla!. I was so
excited that I could help by development of Joomla! and in this same time, play, and learn new things. Now I can see, that it was right
choise, because Joomla! Community is so wonderful.

I think that GHOP is very nice organized. I have a great time. What am I suppose next year? More coding tasks and this same awesome atmosphere ;)
[[Category:GHOP]]

GHOP students 2007-2008/Thomas Gummerer

2013-03-16T14:07:01Z

Bysukro:

[[Image:littlegeniuz.jpg|thumb|Thomas Gummerer (littlegeniuz)]]

My real name is Thomas Gummerer and my forum ID is littlegeniuz.

I come form South Tirol - Italy.

Currently I go to the high school, direction informatics. Beside the Computer and programming I'm very intrested in snowboarding in the
winter. In the summer I like to go with my bike.

I decided to join the contest, because I like programming and writing documentations. I'm using Joomla! for about a year. While looking at the joomla.org site I have seen the news about the ghopc and thought I could participate.

I have choosen Joomla! because I am already familiar with it, and so this task seemed the simplest for me.

The GHOP is a very good invention for scolars, which can't join SOC but would like to do something for big open source projects.

Earning prizes for helping makes it even more fun.
[[Category:GHOP]]

GHOP students 2007-2008/Shantanu Bala

2013-03-16T14:06:43Z

Bysukro:

[[Image:shantanu.jpg|thumb|Shantanu Bala ([[User:shantanubala|shantanubala]])]]

''Location/Region:'' Arizona (United States)

My interests and hobbies include coding and programming primarily, but I also participate in many other extracurricular activities. I take part in my school's speech and debate team; I also play baseball every summer. My proudest accomplishment is reaching my rank of Yonkyu (purple belt) in the 8 years that I have taken part in Aikido.

I joined GHOP to make some money over my winter break. I unintentionally got too interested in a task and went off on a tangent. Now, I'm enjoying my contribution to the open source community not as a GHOP contestant, but a FOSS enthusiast and coder. I chose Joomla! because I have prior experience with it - and the Mootools Javascript framework. Software that I had prior experience with seemed easier and more fitting to contribute to, rather than having to re-learn the core code.

My experiences with GHOP as well as the Joomla! community in general during the Doc Camp have been nothing but wonderful. The single task that I worked on (Making Joomla! more kid-friendly) was given a four-week time limit; however, I was given another month to work on the task after making additional extensions and additions in relation to the task's goal. The sheer amount of people eager and willing to help is outstanding for any Open Source community. The mentors were very responsive, even under the intense pressure and hundreds of tasks pushed upon them. The Joomla! GHOP experience was unforgettable, and has definitely been a grand introduction to contributing to Open Source Software.

The only thing possible to make the experience better is tighter integration with Google's GHOP pages. The claiming of tasks and separation between the GHOP page and the Joomla! forums seemed odd at first. However, it worked out rather smoothly as GHOP progressed. The only other issue would be the uploading and submitting of files for the GHOP contest. At times, contestants were forced to upload files elsewhere due to the lack of space in Google's GHOP page.
[[Category:GHOP]]

GHOP students 2007-2008/Miłosz Lewandowski

2013-03-16T14:06:28Z

Bysukro:

[[Image:milosz.lewandowski.jpg|thumb|Miłosz Lewandowski (milosz.lewandowski)]]

I live in Lesko, Poland (Bieszczady Mountains, south-east part of country).

I'm 17 years old and I go to General Władysław Anders High School in Lesko. Next year I'm going to pass my Matura exam (A-levels).
Moreover, I co-operate with company which is working on ecology (Natural Systems) and Carpathian Heritage Society. I've done for them a few websites.

I've found information about GHOP at Online Informaticians Journal (Dziennik Internautów, http://www.di.com.pl/). GHOP Contest was a great opportunity to increase my knowledge about Open Source. I've chosen Joomla! as the most connected with my specified website development interests software. I tried to build websites based on Joomla earlier, but I didn't know about more advanced features. So I know now that Joomla! is the best way to do the most advanced, light-weighted and professional websites.

GHOP tasks were great. I improved my ability of creating documentation, coding tasks were good chance to discover capabilities of PHP, XML and Joomla!. I really learnt much with GHOP. What is more, Joomla! mentors' and other contestants' help was very professional.
[[Category:GHOP]]

GHOP students 2007-2008/Ming-Ting Wei

2013-03-16T14:06:15Z

Bysukro:

My full name is Ming-Ting Wei, with the nickname called "魏藥" which sounds like stomach medicine in Chinese. "medicalwei" is the ID I chose in Joomla! forum.

I live in Taiwan, and lead a tiring life for the preparation of an college entrance exam.

One of personal interests is do something meaningful with my computer.

Before I claimed the translation task, I only installed Joomla! once and abandoned right away. To feedback on free software communities, I choose a task for me to do despite my parents' disagreement. The translation of an installation document seemed easy for me, and I've tried Joomla! for its simple installation, so I chose a translation task for it.

I have to do this task return home at 10 p.m. and spend a little time to translate one or two paragraphs. To make sure what words used for translation in Joomla!, I have to check the previous installation document translated by Eddy, the leader of JoomlaTaiwan.

Eventually, I finished the task within 2 weeks, and I am waiting for Eddy's confirmation now.

GHOP is a good chance for teenagers to participate in free software communities. Thank you, everyone.

[[Category:GHOP]]

GHOP students 2007-2008/Miloš Bovan

2013-03-16T14:06:00Z

Bysukro:

[[Image:Fantastic.jpg|thumb|Miloš Bovan ([[User:Fantastic|Fantastic]])]]

''The country and region you are from:''

Bosnia and Herzegovina.

''A little bit about yourself and your interests:''

I'm 16 years old. I go to high school in second class. I like listening to techno music. I'm interested in computers, web... I would like to be professional web developer, designer or something connected with computers and web.

''Why you decided to join the contest and why you choose Joomla!:''

It's very useful because in that way I can improve my English and I can also meet a lot of new people with same interests. I choose Joomla! because I think Joomla! is best open source content management system, it has the biggest community, a lot of successful developers and it's easy to use.

''Some thoughts on your experience in GHOP:''

Very good experience, interesting topics.

''Ideas on how we might make this better in the future:''

Maybe you could create groups for every international zone board (Joomla community) for making tasks on their own languages.
[[Category:GHOP]]

GHOP students 2007-2008/Michael Casha

2013-03-16T14:05:43Z

Bysukro:

[[Image:MiCCAS.png|thumb|Michael Casha ([[User:MiCCAS|MiCCAS]])]]

''A little bit about yourself and your interests''

I've had a keen interest in the IT area since a very young age, and have been developing websites since about 7, using XAMPP on my localhost machine.From there I found Joomla, and after learning a little more about it I became very keen in developing sites and would certainly say Joomla is a very big interest of mine now, and hopefully in the future.

''Why you decided to join the contest and why you choose Joomla!''

I decided to join the contest because I really needed something to kick start my contributions towards Joomla. Whilst I've always been interested in it, I haven't ever really known exactly how everything worked. The reason I chose Joomla! In particular is because not only do I know a lot about it, I found that Joomla have the best community of assistants and overall quality.

''Some thoughts on your experience in GHOP''

Absolutely wonderful is all I can say. Having an opportunity to get involved in major projects with people there if you need it is very reassuring!

''Ideas on how we might make this better in the future.''

More promotion possibly, and a faster review system is all I can suggest. And of course, more projects :) I can't believe how many people contributed to this!
[[Category:GHOP]]

GHOP students 2007-2008/Maximiliano David Bustos

2013-03-16T14:05:28Z

Bysukro:

[[Image:Maxi.jpg|thumb|Maximiliano David Bustos (Maxi)]]

''Country and Region:'' La Rioja, Argentina.

I am 17 years old. In March I start my last year of school. I am going to study Informatics Science at Cordoba National University (FaMaF). I participate in Programming Olympiads (for more information: www.oia.org.ar - www.usaco.org - www.topcoder.com/tc). I also make web sites. Doing that I met Joomla! because I needed to make a community web site (www.interactianos.com.ar).

I also programing simple applications in PHP to administrate different things.

On the other hand, I play the sax and the flute in school band. I play football and handball in school team. I play chess (some time ago I played for La Rioja team, but now I don´t have enough time to train).

In GHOP I chose Joomla! because it is the CMS I am currently learn to use.
[[Category:GHOP]]

GHOP students 2007-2008/Max Shinn

2013-03-16T14:05:11Z

Bysukro:

Hello! My name is Max Shinn ([[User:trombonechamp|trombonechamp]]).

I am from Minnesota, United States.

I love writing music and Free Software. I use GNU/Linux as my
desktop OS, and am in the process of getting my school district to use
GNU/Linux on some of their computers as well. I am trying to teach myself
more advanced PHP/Javascript. To practice, I made BernsteinForPresident.com.
It is the website that wants to elect Leonard Bernstein as the president of
{insert your home country here}. I made it to teach myself PHP, Javascript,
and HTML, but I now use it as a homepage. It would be so much easier and the
site would be more powerful if I used Joomla!, but Joomla! makes it
''too'' easy. I wouldn't learn anything about scripting languages if I
used Joomla! :D

When I heard about this "contest" (why is it called a contest?) on lxer, I
joined immediately. I have always wanted to help out the FOSS community on a
larger scale than doing a lame PHP script. The first project I looked at was
Joomla!. I used Joomla! 1.0.x earlier that year for a student council
website, and fell in love with it. I looked down the list until the
word "Compose" caught my eye. "I claim[ed] this task" and started my
Joomla! journey.

It has been a lot of fun working with Joomla!. The community built around it
is amazing. Many of the other FOSS projects I have seen have nothing but
a couple people on a -dev mailing list.

I would love to see sub-forums. One for documentation, one for outreach, one
for coding, etc.

This was a great experience. Thank you for giving me this chance of a
lifetime!!!
[[Category:GHOP]]

GHOP students 2007-2008/Martin Pecka

2013-03-16T14:04:51Z

Bysukro:

[[Image:peci1.jpg|thumb|Martin Pecka (peci1)]]

My name's Martin Pecka, my Joomla! forums nickname is peci1

I come from Jindrichuv Hradec (or Jindřichův Hradec with full diacritics) in the Czech republic (not Czechoslovakia - it split in 1993 and nowadays doesn't exist ;) )

I'm just finishing a grammar school in my city and then I want to study on the Charles University - The Faculty for Mathematics and Physics. I'm interested in maths, programming and web coding. Expect of these interests I love music (I try to play guitar and piano) and nature.

Since I was young I've been a scout - and I like it. It is a great life way for me. In the end, I spend some time with my gorgeous girlfriend, but the distance of about 300 km between us doesn't make it easy :) And finally, I like smiling =)

First I read about GHOP incidentally during an IT class. I saw a possibility how to earn some money and good experiences in my favourite activity. And the international certificate looked also very cool =) I searched for some tasks, but I'm not familiar with Linux projects and C. So I searched some PHP tasks... But the most of them was claimed, so I decided for a translation task - after all, I love english. Now I see I don't have enough time for completing 3 tasks, but the experiences from my only one are also very useful. Thanks for a project like this ;)

I learned that the translation to a brilliant language isn't easy. Even after two cycles of translating there reside many forms, that are translated, but sound very strange, in the document. I haven't known Joomla! before, in fact, I wrote some VERY simple CMSs for myself in the past. Joomla! looks like a very advanced one. Maybe I'll use it once in the future.

The only issue that would be done better is the advertisement. I'm interested in IT, but I found GHOP only incidentally.
[[Category:GHOP]]

GHOP students 2007-2008/Marieke van der Tuin

2013-03-16T12:48:57Z

Bysukro:

[[Image:Marieke92.jpg|thumb|Marieke van der Tuin ([[User:Marieke92|Marieke92]])]]

''Country:'' The Netherlands
''Region:'' Noord-Holland

My hobbies are playing the piano, swimming, folk dancing and of course: my computer! Don't like those computer games at all. I like to read and post on forums and to do something with building websites.

I met Marijke (MarijkeS) at a forum of Windows Live Spaces, 1.5 years ago. With 4 others we set up a team making gadgets for Spaces. We completed 7 of them. A new site for the forum was needed, and also space for other applications and information. Marijke already knew something about Joomla!, so it was a easy choice. That's the first time I came in contact with Joomla!. Soon I tried to set up my first Joomla! site, and registered on DutchJoomla.org, the Dutch Joomla! community.

At first I read a lot of post (yeah.. I still do), and then started posting myself and tried to help others. Marijke asked me for translating the 1.5 Help files together with another student. Because they weren't completed at all at that time, the work wasn't completed.

But I was a member of the translation team now, and started translating a few components. I translated JamBook, Phoca Guestbook and after that sh404SEF, of whom I'm a translation partner now. I'm also testing the translations of dutchjoomla for the 1.5 releases and some nightly builds.

The 'newsreporter' of DutchJoomla posted an article about the GHOP project. I was interested, but first thought it was only about the coding. When I looked closely at it, I saw there also were a few translation tasks! I claimed the translation of the Installation Manual and started to work on it. I enjoyed it a lot! After that I claimed another translation task, translating a team blog. Although there were no translation tasks left, I didn't stopped with the work for GHOP, because I liked it! First looked to documentation tasks, but there weren't any left which seems fun to me. Then I saw the unit test plans, and looked to them. I liked it, and so claimed one. And a second one after that. I decided to do some coding work for the next task, but there wasn't any open code task. Then tasks were added about testing unit test plans. Completed one of them and busy with the next one! I'd like it that my work is useful to the official Joomla! 1.5 stable release. And after this?.. Don't know at all! I really like the project, especially all those positive reactions on my work! If there is any task which I would be capable to do, I'll definitely claim it!

How could you make it better in future? Don't know! It's really perfect like this!!! I love it!

Uhm.. only one thing perhaps: include the links to several websites within the task description. I couldn't find the document in the Wiki in the beginning (and actually; didn't look for it as well).

[[Category:GHOP]]

GHOP students 2007-2008/Kevin Hayne

2013-03-16T12:48:38Z

Bysukro:

[[Image:kevin8020.jpg|thumb|Kevin Hayne (Kevin8020)]]

I'm from the USA - Denver, Colorado... and I love it. I've had an interest in computers since the Myst series entered in our home. My love for technology has stemmed from that experience. I started working with website for fun when I was 11, and haven't looked back since. Discovering Mambo back four years ago was my introduction into PHP and I started learning the joys of working with it. After seeing Joomla! appear, I was taken with the core team's plans, and jumped over here. I spent a few years with zoom gallery before it's demise, and a few with Joomla!hacks working on their bridge for SMF. Now, I do the occasional Joomla! contract project for corePHP but not much.

Seeing GHOP was like a dream come true - finally a way JUST for high school students to contribute to this amazing project. Being able to work with Joomla! and contribute small things that will make a difference in the project has been a great experience, and one that I have really enjoyed. The volunteer staff was great - especially Amy who got me through all of my tasks and helped me when I got stuck plenty of times. I hope I get the chance to participate next year too. If I were to do anything differently, it would be to get more people staffing the event. While I felt well attended too, I had to occasionally bump my own topic to get attention. Other than that - I think it was great! The only concert I have is that if people get too ambitious next year, there won't be a chance for any of us to grab more than one task... haha!

Outside of web coding and Joomla! stuff, I love music - which has resulted in my being able to work with bands in the area (as a web guy of course). I also play guitar, enjoy working with sound systems, and love to hike in the Colorado Rockies. Speaking of the Colorado Rockies... how about that baseball team, eh?
{{-}}

[http://community.joomla.org/blogs/community/1323-onwards-the-story-of-kevin-hayne.html Onwards - The story of Kevin Hayne]

[[Category:GHOP]]

GHOP students 2007-2008/Justo de Rivera

2013-03-16T12:48:19Z

Bysukro:

[[Image:justo.derivera.jpg|thumb|Justo de Rivera ([[User:justo.derivera|justo.derivera]])]]

Hi, I'm Justo G. de Rivera, 17 years old, from Madrid, Spain. My name in the joomla forum is justo.derivera. I learnt programming a few years ago, and I use to code for fun and experimentation. When I saw the GHOP Contest I thought it could be really fun, and that there would be some great programming challenges. I decided to join Joomla! because PHP is my favourite language and because I loved the tasks. It has been very fun by now, and I learnt a lot about developing, PHP, and Joomla!. The advisers were very helpful and understanding, and provided very useful feedback and great ideas. Thanks for this opportunity to join to the Open Source!
{{-}}
[[Category:GHOP]]

GHOP students 2007-2008/James William Ramsay

2013-03-16T12:48:04Z

Bysukro:

[[Image:James_Ramsay.jpg|thumb|James Ramsay<br/>]]

''Website:'' http://jramsay.com.au

''Country:'' Australia
''State:'' Victoria

''Interests:''

I have a strong interest in I.T. which has lead me to spend lots of my time using computers and hence learn about them. I have done bits a pieces in a wide variety of areas but most notable, Visual Basic .NET and now my adventures in Joomla! Besides computers, I enjoy reading, and am particularly keen on J. R. R. Tolkien novels as well as Frederick Forsythe.

''About Me:''

I am just about to begin University, completing a Bachelor of Computer Science at the University of Melbourne.

''Why I decided to join the contest and why I choose Joomla!:''

I decided to join to competition for the most part because I had just begun my holidays for a number of months and was looking for a project to keep me busy. The GHOP contest has sure done that but has been a great deal of fun as well. I choose Joomla! because I haves used Joomla! before for websites and saw this as a way to get better involved in the community atmosphere.

''Some thoughts on my experience in GHOP:''

GHOP has been heaps of fun! It has been a really great chance to meet people from the community and also give something back to the community. It also brought about a heightened realisation of how much work the Joomla! team puts into the software.

''Ideas on how to make it better in the future:''

My experiences were completely positive! If the competition went this well again, it would be a huge success.

[[Category:GHOP]]

GHOP students 2007-2008/Chit Sabesh Asokan

2013-03-16T12:47:48Z

Bysukro:

[[Image:chitsabesh.jpg|thumb|Chit Sabesh Asokan ([[User:chitsabesh|chitsabesh]])]]

''From:'' Singapore (South East Asia)

I am 15 years old and am currently studying at St. Gabriel's Secondary School. I'm a Singaporean of Indian ethnicity. English is my first language and I study Mandarin in school as a second language.

I have two major afflictions that begin with “R”. The first is Reading and the second is Rhinitis.

I enjoy reading Science Fiction novels from authors such as Robert A. Heinlein and Stephen R. Donaldson. I am currently revisiting a classic dystopian sci-fi novel - “1984” by George Orwell.

My other affliction, Rhinitis has been both a boon and a bane. The allergy “attacks” have kept me indoors (bane). This has allowed me to explore the Internet as source of entertainment and information. This spawned my interest in web development (boon).

In 2007, I was appointed the President of my School's Infocomm Club (an amalgamation of the AVA and Web Clubs).

I spearheaded the migration of my School's website from a static HMTL webpage to one powered by an open-source content management system – Joomla!

Beyond the above, I enjoy visiting other countries. It gives me the chance to learn about other cultures and, their food!

''Why I joined the contest and why I chose Joomla.''

This contest provides an opportunity for me to learn,interact and contribute to the open-source community.

Joomla was my choice because I had already gained some experience working with it and I wanted to help contribute to its development.

''Some thoughts on my experience in the GHOP.''

It is wonderful to see forum members and other contestants helping each other on various tasks – Its truly exciting!

''Ideas on how we might make this better in the future.''

The contest has been amazing thus far. Questions have been met with quick responses on the forums and help is always there if I need it. I can undertake the tasks at my own pace, within the overall time-limit.

Perhaps an IRC Channel could be set up to allow for real-time communication. As for further ideas, I'd like to give it more thought before getting back to you.
[[Category:GHOP]]

GHOP students 2007-2008/Branko Pajic

2013-03-16T12:47:32Z

Bysukro:

[[Image:balvanboy.jpg|thumb| Branko Pajic (balvanboy)]]

''The country and region you are from:''

Serbia / Vojvodina

''A little bit about yourself and your interests:''

I study Economics, and I am interested in Web Developing (Joomla, CSS, Photoshop)

''Why you decided to join the contest and why you choose Joomla!:''

I want to experience something new and I want to meet new people.

''Some thoughts on your experience in GHOP:''

Very good organization, and interesting tasks.

''Ideas on how we might make this better in the future.''

Maybe creating groups, and team work on tasks.

[[Category:GHOP]]

GHOP students 2007-2008/Benjamin Hättasch

2013-03-16T12:47:15Z

Bysukro:

''(The Forum ID is the same as the name, People with problems using the 'ä' might use the Name 'Haettasch' or better simply 'Ben' for calling me instead.)''

I'm a 17 years old student in the 12th grade and come from Germany. I love working with computers, including programming software but also doing things in the web. I've got an own homepage for my projects and care for some other pages, one of them will be running Joomla! 1.5 in future, as soon as it works on the server of my hoster ;-). This is the page of the school magazin in wich I take part, but I'm also crazy in going dancing (standard dance) two or more times a week.

I spend a lot of time surfing through the net and reading newspages and feeds. By doing this I read about the contest. I thought it would be great to take part, so I read the rules and decided to choose Joomla! because I "played" a little bit with Joomla! 1.0 a few time ago and had to build up a new webpage now. Because I wanted to do this with Joomla! at this time and assumed that I would have to learn about programming extensions for Joomla! for realising the project, to reach my personal expections of the page, I thought why not learn this by doing and take part in the Contest, chosing Joomla!.

The Contest was great. I learned al lot about free software development: About how much work is to do, how the controll and help process in the community works and a lot about Joomla! to. It inspired me to keep on helping the Joomla! community after the end of the contest. I'm going to keep on developing extensions for Joomla! and maybe take part in one team - wich one I don't know at this time - in the future and I hope that Google will re-run this contest next year.
[[Category:GHOP]]

GHOP students 2007-2008/Anner J. Bonilla

2013-03-16T12:46:44Z

Bysukro:

[[Image:Anner.JPG|thumb|Anner J. Bonilla (annerajb)]]

i am from Puerto Rico i like coding, game development and creating my stuff ie. websites :D. i decided to join the contest because i am using joomla for a website i am creating and wanted it to be as good as possible also because i always wanted to help a open source project but never found anything suitable or easy enough that i could accomplish till now.

GHOP has been a great experience i have met equally minded people that share same interest like open source project and have a great talent. i thing a lot of things worked perfectly but maybe more programming task a litle bit more time maybe one more month and stuff that can be included on joomla releases maybe a new module or something similar.

[[Category:GHOP]]

GHOP students 2007-2008/Andreas Lance Freund

2013-03-16T12:46:27Z

Bysukro:

[[Image:andreas.jpg|thumb|Andreas Lance Freund]]

''A bit about myself:''

I race bicycles and spend a lot of my free time
training. Other than cycling, the most important thing in my life is
learning. Some of my other interests include messing around in Linux,
trying to become fluent in at least one programming language, and
making things, but, like with programming and electronics, I am not
very good at it yet. I also play piano. My favorite class in school
this year is Chemistry AP, because it is probably the first class I've
ever taken that really challenges me. Math is usually my favorite
class, but I don't like my teacher this year.

''Why I joined the contest and why I chose Joomla!''

I wanted the
tshirt, so that I can pretend that I am good at something. The money
isn't too bad either. But really, I wanted to join GHOP, because I
find it very rewarding to be able to give back to the open source
community. I use open source software every day and it means a lot to
me to be able to contribute. I chose Joomla!, because I wanted to
learn more about it.

''Some thoughts on my experience''

It was great. I got a lot of good
feedback and help. Everyone who helped was serious about getting me to
do the best job possible.

''Ideas on improvement''

I don't really have any. My experience was perfect.

[[Category:GHOP]]

Documentation Working Group/Websites

2013-03-16T12:25:59Z

Bysukro:

The Documentation Working Group currently maintains the following websites:
===[http://api.joomla.org api.joomla.org]===
This entire site is automatically generated by the phpDocumentor package from an analysis of the Joomla! source code and making use of specially formatted comments embedded in the source code itself. It is an invaluable tool for all Joomla! developers.
===[http://docs.joomla.org docs.joomla.org]===
The concept behind '''docs.joomla.org''' is that it will become the central resource for developing single-source modular documentation within the Joomla! project. The idea is that we write stuff once then re-use it in a somewhat analogous way to modern OOP software development. In the future we expect that other sites, such as [http://help.joomla.org help.joomla.org] and [http://developer.joomla.org developer.joomla.org] will contain some, or even most, of their content derived from sources here. By building a central database of document "chunks" we gain maximum benefit from the efforts of a limited number of authors and we produce "agile" documents where a single change is rapidly propagated to all the derived documents affected.

Those interested in the techniques will find more information [[JDOC:Modular documentation|here]].
===[http://help.joomla.org help.joomla.org]===
The official help site houses much of our early documentation, including that for Joomla! 1.0.x, the help screens for all Joomla! versions and the Joomla! 1.5 Installation Guide.
* [[Help screens|Joomla! 1.5.x help screens]] are created on this wiki before being moved to [http://help.joomla.org/content/section/42/278/ help.joomla.org]
* [http://help.joomla.org/content/section/16/276/ Joomla! 1.0.x help screens] Note: These are no longer being maintained.
* [[Creating a Joomla! 1.5 help screens SQL dump]]
* [http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/joomla/docman/?subdir=6 Help screens SQL dump files] for Joomla! versions up to 1.5.x.

[[Category:Documentation Working Group]]

Documentation Working Group/Other Resources

2013-03-16T12:25:20Z

Bysukro:

* [http://community.joomla.org/contributors/documentors.html Documentation Working Group blog]
* [[jforum:303|Public discussion forum]]
* [http://dev.joomla.org/component/option,com_jd-wiki/Itemid,32/ Developer wiki] Note: All useful material has now been moved from this wiki to here.
* [http://groups.google.com/group/joomla-docs Documentation Working Group mailing list]
* [http://groups.google.com/group/joomla-devel-docs Developer documentation mailing list]
* [[Project:MediaWiki setup notes|MediaWiki setup notes]]
* [http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?f=502&t=268156 Help screens white paper proposal] for Joomla! 1.6 onwards
* [[Documentors]] profile in this wiki.
* [[Translations]] Unofficial translations of the official documentation, in hope of easing the review process.

[[Category:Documentation Working Group]]

Documentation Working Group/Intro

2013-03-16T12:25:02Z

Bysukro:

[[File:Workgroups_documentation.jpg|right|96px]]
The Documentation Team is Part of the [[Production Working Groups|Production Working Group]]. It is responsible for creating and maintaining all the official Joomla! documentation including that for end-users, administrators and third-party developers. We also maintain the help screens for the Joomla! releases.

The official documentation language is British/Australian. Translations of the official documentation into other languages are the responsibility of the [[Translations Working Group]].

[[Category:Documentation Working Group]]

Documentation Working Group/Documentation Wiki

2013-03-16T12:24:43Z

Bysukro:

{{:Documentation wiki}}

[[Category:Documentation Working Group]]