Core PR: Adding link to Talk TW in Help plugin

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#1

I’ve made a PR to suggest including a link to Talk TW in the Help Plugin:

https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/pull/6061

Proposed New:

~TiddlyWiki is an open source project with a vibrant community of users and developers. We’re always happy to help new users get the most from ~TiddlyWiki.

The Talk ~TiddlyWiki community forum is open to all for support, discussion, and community collaboration:

https://talk.tiddlywiki.org

For those that prefer a Google Group, join the ~TiddlyWiki mailing list:

http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki

Developers can participate in the ~TiddlyWiki ~GitHub repository, as well as sharing reproducible bug reports:

https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5

Previous:

~TiddlyWiki is an open source project with a vibrant community of users and developers. We’re always happy to help new users get the most from ~TiddlyWiki.

Join the ~TiddlyWiki mailing list:

http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki

Post bug reports to the ~TiddlyWiki ~GitHub repository:

https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5

My comments there:

I’m suggesting some wording changes and including a link to the Talk TW forum as well as the Google Group.

I’ve also changed the wording around the link to GitHub to be LESS welcoming of bug reports by end users — as I think that might be better helped in the forum or mailing list.

Instead, the message there is for developers and sophisticated users who can reproduce bug reports.

I think we could do a lot more with Help, I did some experiments in including more video content, but will leave that for future PRs.

To Do / Further Discussion:

I searched through core code and the other references are one in the Upgrade Wizard:

https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/blob/ac022ec79f05715f62fd8382ebb6b49cd1c8f960/plugins/tiddlywiki/upgrade/UpgradeWizard.tid

And the rest are on the tw5.com edition or in language editions.

I’m suggesting the #core-pr tag to showcase and discuss suggested changes to core. The work to suggest changes is quite technical and involves familiarity with GitHub, but especially with written material, we can expose more of it here and collaborate as a community on it. I’m happy to help people navigate GitHub

Also, this is my first suggested change to core, so I’m not clear on the process.

#2

To expand on this, I started on a project to build a “Fission Edition” – a curated bundle of plugins to be included as a one click element for TiddlyWiki on Fission (TWOF).

I started experimenting with the Help plugin. It was great to include a question mark icon that popped open the Help Panel. I then looked for some more videos to add and put in @DaveGifford’s Customizer video:

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And even added another tab for Fission info:

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Of course, these examples are for a customized edition, but I wonder if an “empty” or “full” edition might include more community videos, maybe a link to Grok, and so on. The Help Panel, as a relatively simple core plugin, might be a spot we could encourage everyone to pitch in and improve, beyond highly technical core developer activity.

Heck, we could even embed a Discourse posting / comment box, although I think that will take some careful thought before rolling out.

Here’s a version of my published edition where you can experiment with the Help Panel https://boris.files.fission.name/p/tiddlywiki/fission-edition.html#Help%20Panel%20Screencast%20Video

(please excuse the error pop-ups, this was me learning you can’t just upload a nodejs wiki without turning off the node savers)

#3

Nice work! Buried in backend code atm, but will come back to this one. :wink:

#4

Hi, I wonder why there is a ~ before TiddlyWiki?

#5

Because CamelCase linking is turned on by default, and the tilde ~ prevents the word TiddlyWiki from being wikilinked.

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