Portal:Social entrepreneurship/lessonslearned

Personal reflections by authors intended to improved processes of Wikiversity project development.

Technical

Sometimes a small thing can take a lot of time to find and sort out. For example, for some time I could not use multiple style elements with my theme templates. The problem was eventually solved by having no space between the end of the template definition "}}" and the "<noinclude>" tag which followed it.

So, here please list any reminders:

• Convert spaces to underscores in a path - solved via {{fullurle: ...}} (note the 'e').
• At the end of a template definition, insert no space between the end of the template definition "}}" and the "<noinclude>" tag which normally follows.
• For colour values in templates which return them, try returning the quotes too if the "#" is being interpreted as a numbered bullet for example. This should not be necessary and may indicate another problem.
• Remember to end the template with the </noinclude> tag (and not a Category tag for example).
• For main (default) name space references try :{{FULLPAGENAME}} (note the ':').
• If there are spaces in the FULLPAGENAME try :{{FULLPAGENAMEE}} (note the extra 'E').

Links to resources for learning wiki markup

• Parser Functions
• Parser Function

Methodology

• Remember the xP/agile 40 hour weeks rule.
• Document your design decisions for quick answers to the question "Why did I design it this way?"
• Track issues in one place - e.g. Issue Tracker.
• Could be handy to maintain a test page which tests key things spanning a project.
  • Visit it on a regular basis.

Templates

Learned a lot about separation of concerns. Still much to learn.

• Do not send parameters to named navigation templates which occur on each associated page of a course. The idea is to have a fixed view template for that page set.
• Generic boxes: within the definition of the template, do not include references to project-specific templates.
  • this raises a question about when to elevate a project-specific template to something more generic for Wikiversity.

External Links

• OER Handbook - Lessons Learned