Talk:Recorded Text Testing - Revision history

Katie Crystal at 19:07, 14 April 2011

2011-04-14T19:07:03Z

Katie Crystal: Tweaking file link

2011-04-14T18:30:51Z

Tweaking file link

Katie Crystal: Organization

2011-04-14T16:57:41Z

Organization

Admin: Tying all the RTT stuff together -- ~~~~

2011-04-14T01:13:18Z

Tying all the RTT stuff together -- ~~~~

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== Tying all the RTT stuff together -- [[User:Admin|Admin]] 01:13, 14 April 2011 (UTC) ==

What we've got so far on RTT is absolutely great. What we need to do before we get too much content is think about the overall structure so that we can set in place some ways to help people navigate through it all by tying it all together.

You may have noticed the little boxes that I've put on the top right of the [[Word Lists|word list]] pages to help people navigate the tools and word list sections. These are templates that I've already created which can just be reused with a simple piece of code thus:

<nowiki>{{data_collection_tools}}</nowiki> produces the box at the right

{{data_collection_tools}}

and

<nowiki>{{word_list_steps}}</nowiki> produces the box below it

{{word_list_steps}}

The double curly brackets <nowiki>{{sometemplatename}}</nowiki> signify a template that you've already created before. You can create any content as a template and that can be reused anywhere. Each template has it's own page so the Data Collection Tools box was created by making the [[Template:data_collection_tools]] page and then adding content into it (which I actually copied from a Wikipedia template). Then, all I have to do is add <nowiki>{{data_collection_tools}}</nowiki> to any page and I get it inserted automatically.

Another way to organise content is to use categories which we add at the bottom of each page thus:

<nowiki>[[Category:Category_Name]]</nowiki>

We can add as many categories as we want but it's best to keep them kind of general and not get too specific and risk only having one page in a category. An example of one category page that we have working is <nowiki>[[Category:Glossary]]</nowiki> which is added to the bottom of each page that is dedicated to defining a term. When we visit the [[Glossary]] page, we can see the entire list of terms so it acts like an index. We could do the same for RTTs so that every page relating to RTTs is tagged <nowiki>[[Category:RTTs]]</nowiki>

Either way is good and doing both is probably best!

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-:That sounds like a great way to organize everything.  I just put together [[Media:RTT_Outline.doc|this document]] with an outline of my plan for the RTT section.  I will start to put the skeleton for all this together.  I'll also start using the keyword "outline" for our outlined pages (tricky, I know).
+:That sounds like a great way to organize everything.  I just put together an [[RTT Outline]] page with an outline of my plan for the RTT section.  I will start to put the skeleton for all this together and add in the boxes.  I'll also start using the keyword "outline" for our outlined pages (tricky, I know).
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 Either way is good and doing both is probably best!
-:That sounds like a great way to organize everything.  I just put together [[Media:RTT Outline.doc|this document]] with an outline of my plan for the RTT section.  I will start to put the skeleton for all this together.  I'll also start using the keyword "outline" for our outlined pages (tricky, I know).
+:That sounds like a great way to organize everything.  I just put together [[Media:RTT_Outline.doc|this document]] with an outline of my plan for the RTT section.  I will start to put the skeleton for all this together.  I'll also start using the keyword "outline" for our outlined pages (tricky, I know).
 :[[User:Katie Crystal|Katie Crystal]] 16:57, 14 April 2011 (UTC)

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