From 4e617031534767f54903fd09851a99e61326e6bd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawn46FqvVCgiNqPzeLTvAgSgLn7NfsaDzms" Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 05:14:55 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] New bug report `FormattingHelp links to MarkDown help page regardless of page format` --- ..._links_to_MarkDown_help_page_regardless_of_page_format.mdwn | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/bugs/FormattingHelp_links_to_MarkDown_help_page_regardless_of_page_format.mdwn diff --git a/doc/bugs/FormattingHelp_links_to_MarkDown_help_page_regardless_of_page_format.mdwn b/doc/bugs/FormattingHelp_links_to_MarkDown_help_page_regardless_of_page_format.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..04e7e9078 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/bugs/FormattingHelp_links_to_MarkDown_help_page_regardless_of_page_format.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +The `FormattingHelp` link in the edit form of any page points to the same [ikiwiki/formatting](/ikiwiki/formatting) help text for Markdown, regardless of page type (which could be HTML, reStructuredText, etc.) On the wiki I run, this is confusing users. + +What I would like is that either the `FormattingHelp` link changes with page type (requires Javascript, if one is going to change the page type for new pages), or that the [ikiwiki/formatting](/ikiwiki/formatting) page is an index of supported page types with a further link to help text for each one (less user-friendly but likely easier to implement).