MEpedia talk:How to contribute

Sortable tables

I'm still new to this, but what is the syntax for creating a sortable table (eg can click arrows or something at the top of each column and it will sort by date or alphabetical order)?

• See instructions here and here --Samsara (talk) 05:56, 30 June 2016 (PDT)

Images don't show

I tried adding an image to my page but it simply won't show, and I noticed this is the same for images throughout the wiki, except for very tiny files. What gives? By the way, why is there no help forum? Guido den Broeder (talk) 13:20, 18 October 2017 (PDT)

Add topic button not working

Just saying. The software doesn't seem to have been configured correctly. Guido den Broeder (talk) 13:25, 18 October 2017 (PDT)

Email address not functional?

The “mepedia@meaction.net” address mentioned in this page does not appear to be functional.

Emailing it produces a bizarre google groups error message.

Tagging page editors for discussion: User:JenB User:Ollie User:Bill User:Canele User:Notjusttired

Pyrrhus (talk) 20:17, 15 February 2019 (EST)

Communication Guidance

New contributors don’t receive any guidance on how to effectively communicate with other editors.

I suggest adding a section “How to Discuss With Other Contributors”. This section should cover when and how to discuss something on the “Discussion” page for a topic, how to engage other contributors in said discussion, when to use a User’s talk page, and how to contact an administrator for mepedia for admin issues.

As a new user, I know nothing of these things and I have no one to ask.

Pyrrhus (talk) 20:36, 15 February 2019 (EST)

Pyrrhus, that's a really good idea. I have started such a page at MEpedia:Discussion, but it's pretty bare bones. You're right it should include how to ping folks if you're not leaving a message on a User's talk page. I'm also going to go ahead and boldly create MEpedia:Editor help desk as a centralized place to ask questions. Given editor availability can really vary, it seems to me it might be, well, helpful to have a place to go to pose a question to whomever might be around. But if others have a different idea or even a different name and want redirect or delete this, I won't be offended. Figure I'll just give it a shot rather than leave it to someone else.

Eventually this should be incorporated into How to contribute, yes... Canele (talk) 21:41, 15 February 2019 (EST)

Thanks User:Canele! If you get the answers to all my questions down on MEpedia:Discussion, I'll try to make it pretty.

For what it's worth, my preference would be to have this info in the Contribute page rather than on a separate page, but I like your idea of a MEpedia:Editor help desk page, if we can only figure out how to get it onto everyone's watchlist!

Thanks again. Pyrrhus (talk) 22:38, 15 February 2019 (EST)