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Questions tagged [ubuntu-wiki]
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What is the difference between the *.ubuntu.com wikis?
I realised I'm a bit confused about something. I have found three separate wikis hosted at ubuntu.com, and I'd like to know their respective purposes and relationships. I have some guesses (see below) but I'd prefer some clear/official/de facto…
lofidevops
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Is there an English Ubuntu Wiki?
When answering a question here on Ask Ubuntu I sometimes would like to link to a wiki page explaining some topic in more detail, say, the ALSA sound system.
For German speaking users there's the very useful wiki.ubuntuusers.de, but what about an…
dessert
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Why are there two wikis?
Why are there two wikis related to Ubuntu?
The first one is Community Help Wiki and the second one is Ubuntu-wiki.
Both of them seem to be related to the community. Are the sites the same?
Blenderudit
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What team do I need to talk to about deleting a page on help.ubuntu.com?
I would like to delete a junky page from help.ubuntu.com, but it seems I do not have access to the page, what team should I talk to to have the page removed?
Jorge Castro
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Very outdated page at wiki.ubuntu.com: What can you do?
I found a very outdated page at wiki.ubuntu.com:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ScreenCasts/Istanbul
The "Istanbul" Screencast software looks dead. The homepage is gone, and not update since 2007.
The wiki page is protected. I can't delete it.
What can I…
guettli
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What happened to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter?
I just noticed that no new "Weekly" newsletter has been released since January, and I can't seem to find any information on why the newsletter has been put on hold for this long.
Does anyone know more?
oKtosiTe
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Migrating from 16.04 to 18.04 : Why is the "For long-term support versions" option not yet activated?
Edit : Note that it is not yet possible to migrate from 16.04.05 LTS to 18.04.1 LTS. Today is Tuesday, August 7.... The release of 18.04.1 LTS took place on July 26... They must have simply forgotten to enable the "For long-term support versions"…
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Editing Ubuntu official documentation pages
Maybe I wasn’t rigorous enough in reading the page, but I can’t edit the Ubuntu Wiki Official Documentation.
I logged in using my UbuntuOne Account and using my Launchpad Account but still I can’t edit the page.
Let us take an example on this…
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Should I remove very old information from the Ubuntu/community wiki?
I'm glad to find out that I should boldy edit the Ubuntu and community wikis, including adding new info to old pages, and that there is even a way to request whole page deletions where necessary.
However, what if a page contains some useful…
lofidevops
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Is there a kind of Ubuntu Wiki sitemap or contents index?
I feel the Ubuntu Wiki contains treasures, but I as much feel unable to exploit its contents as much as I would like. What I miss, is a kind of contents index, may be by categories, but a classical sitemap would be largely fine too. Unfortunately,…
Hibou57
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How can I browse Ubuntu Wiki offline?
I am accustomed to offline wiki browsing. I thought it would be great if I can read Ubuntu wiki in the same way.
Is there anyway I can read Ubuntu Wiki offline? Help will be much appreciated if I can download Wiki dumps to my computer much like in…
Bharadwaj Srigiriraju
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What software is in the Canonical Partners repository?
I'd please like to know what software (or see the list) is in that repository.
I enabled it and of course let the system update the package list.. but I can't seem to find both Chrome nor Skype after it (using Ubuntu Software).
Any idea???
Shouldn't…
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How to contribute to very outdated pages in Ubuntu
I was looking for hardware pages in the Ubuntu Wiki like for example:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupportComponentsMultimediaWebCamerasGenius
And the last time several of those were tested was before Star Wars was invented. So how can I help in…
Luis Alvarado
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How to give feedback to an immutable page at wiki.ubuntu.com
I want to give feedback to this page since I am missing something.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuBackports
I have a login for this site, but since the page is immutable, I can't change it.
How can I give feedback if I am missing something an a…
guettli
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How to see/list history of all wiki contributions/edits by an author/user in wiki.ubuntu.com (MoinMoin?)
I have logged in some time ago in wiki.ubuntu.com, making some edits. Now I have logged in again (always via my Launchpad ID) - and when I click on my username, all I get is some preferences, as described in here.
If you click on Info on the main…
sdaau
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