[Typo3-doc] question about the glossary

[Peter Kindström]

Hi Mark,
> My name is Mark Ravitz.  I've been working on the glossary
> definitions.   I'd like to join the documentation group.

Sounds great to me. But you should ask the DocTeam leader, 
Sylvain Viart, about that. Maybe he reads this...?


> Sorry.  I've been adding words.  The definitions relate to one another
> and it's hard not to work on the glossary as a whole, which means moving
> words into a-z, as opposed to only writing definitions.  I just
> discovered this newsgroup.  As far as I can tell there are a lot of 
> people moving words into a-z.

Ok, I see your point. And I understand it!
But my "problem" is that I don´t know how to add *new words* 
into the glossary extension database. And therefor I want to 
keep the new words separate until I know how to solve the 
"problem"  :-(


> I'll stop doing it.

Thank you very much!


> Maybe it's better just to let the whole thing grow for a while.  I keep
> rereading and correcting/improving the definitions I have already written.

I agree with you! But we still have this problem with 
"transferring" the wiki information into the glossary 
extension/database.

Right now I do it by hand and it works when there are not so 
many changes or new words written. But if we wait until a 
certain point and then want to transfer all words into the 
extension within a few days - how do we do it then?
I don´t want to do that by hand, and right now we have no 
transfer tool...


  > That amounts to a heck of a lot of words.  If you
> did have all those words well defined and cross
> linked it would be an incredibly valuable tool,
> especially for newbies.

I think that´s the goal... And I also think it is possible to 
achieve. Things are going surprisingly (for me, at least) well.


> Let me know if there is something specific I can do to help
> out with the glossary in addition to writing definitions.

Thank you!
Right now I need help/ideas/discussions about how we should 
handle the glossary on the wiki.

a) Let it grow for a while - but how do we transfer it them?
b) Just add definitions and transfer them every now and then
c) ???


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/Peter Kindström