Beginner Documentation

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Free_Documentation_License says that GFDL is the counterpart for documentation to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gpl, so I'm wondering if they are compatible, and if documentation published under GFDL may be packaged with modules in the Drupal.org repository?

Thanks,
Aaron Winborn
http://aaronwinborn.com/

I really dont know the answer to this, and I notice its not in the Language Documentation.

http://drupal.org/node/11130
http://drupal.org/node/31714

My name is Matthew Pare and I'm a Co-Chair for the "Community and Core" track for Drupalcon Boston 2008. Over the last couple of weeks we have been planning and brainstorming to make Drupalcon Boston 2008 the best Drupalcon to date! One of our recommended track session topics is "Getting Help From The Community" and since your viewing this post on the Beginner Documentation group I thought you would be excellent candidates for submitting sessions on the topic.

Check out this suggestion: http://drupal.org/node/147183

I've put this together for URLs & and Clean URLs. I'd like to see any other add-on modules under it as well following the same WHEWF (What, How, Example, Why, Further reading.) I will be working on PathAuto tomorrow. I have to stop doing this stuff or I'm never going to get my site up LOL.

URL = Uniform Resource Locator. The text you see, or type in your browser address bar. i.e., http://www.example.com http:// is the protocol your browser uses to find www.example.com which is where the data lives.

Administer >> Site Configuration >> Clean URLs

I finished up the Drupal Simply page (what, how, why with suggested additional reading) today over at the dojo site and promoted it to a book. However when I was re-reading it and trying for beginner eyes I began to wonder if people would understand the words display engine and tried to find what Drupalers called it and couldn't find anything other then Theme. Does anyone know what this part of the system is called other then Theme? I am going to replace display engine with theme engine, but wondered if there was something else it was called.

Shari

I've spent my hour and now have to move on to paying work ;-) lol what I like to see simplified is:
Node, what is it and what does it do for you?
Taxonomy, what does it do for you? Also need to cover that it's under Category in the Admin area
Breadcrumb, what is it and what does it do for you?
Creating content. How, and what you can do with it after it's created.

This module allows someone to include on a page of content (node) a search
and display of additional content from a preexisting view.

e.g., you have a content type for CD’s, they include a CCK field for artists. You could create a content type for the artist and include on that content type a viewfield allowing Drupal to find and present any of the CD content types that belong to that artist so you would end up with a content page view of:

Artist information <~~ This would come from the other fields that were on the created content.

Thanks to Drupal Dojo, we can use the www.drupaldojo.org to hash out the working and how to present the book (pages). Once we have something here, we can move it to the Wiki so that anyone can offer edits. Once something is in solid form we can add it to the Book. Please post here 1st so people know something has been added and also this is also were we can attract newer members so we need to stay within Drupal

Shari

Hi all add1sun, invited me over to co-habitat with ya all on the drupaldojo.org I'm not sure how this will fit in as I'm aiming for simplification vs technical information. I'd love to play around and hopefully others will fix what I'm missing and will give feedback. I've just started over at http://groups.drupal.org/beginner-documentation so I'm not sure who else is going to play with me, but I'll keep plugging along.

Not sure if you want to add a book, or if I should just start up in the wiki area.

Thanks for the invite!
Shari

What is a CCK Widget?

The final user form (create content) for inputting data (site content) is created using widgets. The admin creates a content type or node (user form), by adding fields via CCK. The admin chooses what widget (field container) to use to collect that data (content). e.g. you want the user to put a number in the field so you select the integer/text widget. Each data type, and the way it can be entered is a widget.

Taxonomy is the parent term for: Categories, Vocabulary, Terms, & Tags. Is there any other word we need to add?

That's all I got right now, can anyone else add something here?
Why is it a good thing? What does it allow you to do? Why do you want to use it? In what ways do you want to use it?

I'd like to see some clarifying information presented at the main site, but think it might be better to hash out some of the terms before asking to make it live. I'd love it if they allowed a Beginner Book as I don't think it really fits anywhere else but we can deal with that later.

It appears that we are going to have to use Story and comments as the Wiki nor the Story shows revisions made so everything will have to be done in comments which only Story has.

I need an over simplification to get my head around what I am creating with Drupal. I'd appreciate it if someone lets me know if I'm wrong. Without going into the actual technology and mechanics or what additional modules can do.

Drupal provides a engine to show content and a way to hold that content.

How the content is held is based on tables, which creates a database.

When you create a piece of content it is put into this table.

Information can be pulled out of this table based on:

see this massive new handbook section: http://drupal.org/node/120612

I just came across this post which contains a CC-licensed beginner's guide for 4.7 (I'm not sure who the corresponding Drupal user is):

http://smokinggoat.wordpress.com/2007/02/16/another-drupal-user-guide/