Activity for Monica Cellio
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| Comment | Post #282596 |
Thanks for suggesting the "how can we improve this page?" framing; I agree that's much better. The context here (which I wasn't clear about) is technical documentation, not marketing fluff. One type of useful comment we get is requests for specific examples. Too many of our pages show only the... (more) |
— | about 5 years ago |
| Edit | Post #282589 | Initial revision | — | about 5 years ago |
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How can we integrate a lightweight public ticketing system into our documentation feedback form? We publish a substantial documentation set online. Each page has a place at the bottom that asks "was this helpful? (Y/N)", and if the person chooses "no" we offer a textbox. We collect all this feedback internally (it feeds into our internal ticketing system, except for the spam), but to the u... (more) |
— | about 5 years ago |
| Edit | Post #26405 |
Post edited: updated link |
— | about 5 years ago |
| Edit | Post #282034 |
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— | over 5 years ago |
| Edit | Post #10919 |
Post edited: trying to fix tags |
— | over 5 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281759 |
I don't know, but I've forwarded this to someone who can take a closer look. (Gotta look the error code up in the database, which I can't do myself.) (more) |
— | over 5 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281759 |
Huh, weird. I see it too, for you here. (But not for me here. I haven't checked you elsewhere but I assume it's fine for me since it is for you.) (more) |
— | over 5 years ago |
| Edit | Post #281356 | Initial revision | — | over 5 years ago |
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In 2021, which publishers distribute novellas? The Hugo awards are prominent fan awards in the SF&F genre. In 2021, I noticed that all of the finalists in the Novella category are from a single publisher, Tor.com. Novellas have, I understand, historically been harder to market than either novels or short stories, though I don't know if that... (more) |
— | over 5 years ago |
| Edit | Post #281350 | Initial revision | — | over 5 years ago |
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A: How do I brainstorm for writing positively about myself? Writing positively about yourself can be hard. It feels like bragging, which feels rude. What I've found helps is to frame it as a specific marketing project. It's not that I would go around boasting in general, but this year-end performance self-assessment is where I have to show my value and... (more) |
— | over 5 years ago |
| Edit | Post #25065 |
Post edited: updated link |
— | over 5 years ago |
| Edit | Post #35903 |
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— | over 5 years ago |
| Edit | Post #37957 |
Post edited: assorted minor cleanup |
— | over 5 years ago |
| Edit | Post #279019 |
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— | over 5 years ago |
| Edit | Post #25900 |
Post edited: restored content that seems to have lost somewhere along the way |
— | over 5 years ago |
| Edit | Post #25901 |
Post edited: updated link |
— | over 5 years ago |
| Edit | Post #281003 | Initial revision | — | over 5 years ago |
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A: How do we prevent Madcap Flare from injecting non-breaking spaces in our documentation? It turns out that "Global" doesn't mean global in Flare. We haven't figured out what it actually means, but to fix this you have to select "XML Editor" from the drop-down menu shown in the screen shot and then change it there. I changed it in both to be safe, and our team is no longer getting... (more) |
— | over 5 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281002 |
I beat my head against this for a while so when I finally found it I decided to ask and answer here. (more) |
— | over 5 years ago |
| Edit | Post #281002 | Initial revision | — | over 5 years ago |
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How do we prevent Madcap Flare from injecting non-breaking spaces in our documentation? We use Madcap Flare for our documentation, and it has an annoying property: if you happen to have the shift key down when you type a space, it inserts a non-breaking space (` `). Our documentation covers SQL, so things like `CREATE TABLE` are common and too often come out as `CREATE TA... (more) |
— | over 5 years ago |
| Edit | Post #280765 | Initial revision | — | over 5 years ago |
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A: How do we get Flare to stop modifying .gitignore? I received a response from Flare's technical support. There was a bug in Flare's git integration in some older versions (at least 2019r2; not sure how much farther back). This bug was fixed in Flare 2020, but the result is that if people are using mixed versions, as we are, then there's a tug o... (more) |
— | over 5 years ago |
| Edit | Post #280735 |
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— | over 5 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280721 |
File shares become write-only kitchen junk drawers, in my experience -- it's easy to add stuff but harder to find and organize it, and actually *maintaining* it is even harder. Jira would be an improvement for you because of the integration with Confluence, which you're already using. For examp... (more) |
— | over 5 years ago |
| Edit | Post #280721 | Initial revision | — | over 5 years ago |
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A: What are some ways to encourage team members to contribute and maintain a centralized wiki? There's no quick or complete fix, but the following things have worked for me. Plant the seeds early First, involve those new hires. When everything is new to them, you are in a better position to plant "culture" seeds. Maybe your old-timers have gotten used to not documenting anything, b... (more) |
— | over 5 years ago |
| Edit | Post #26340 |
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— | over 5 years ago |
| Edit | Post #26342 | Post undeleted | — | over 5 years ago |
| Edit | Post #279019 |
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— | over 5 years ago |
| Edit | Post #279019 |
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| Comment | Post #280651 |
@Olin thanks for the debugging tip! I hadn't thought of that. (more) |
— | over 5 years ago |
| Edit | Post #280651 |
Post edited: source-control is now the parent tag of git so don't need both (this question is specifically about git) |
— | over 5 years ago |
| Edit | Post #26346 |
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| Edit | Post #31488 |
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| Edit | Post #280651 | Initial revision | — | over 5 years ago |
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How do we get Flare to stop modifying .gitignore? We use Madcap Flare for our documentation, and the project is checked into git. (In case this matters, this is a locally-hosted git server, not GitHub.) The project uses a .gitignore file to avert commits of output files and assorted Flare byproducts that don't belong in source control. We... (more) |
— | over 5 years ago |
| Edit | Post #10747 |
Post edited: localized links |
— | over 5 years ago |
| Edit | Post #280515 | Initial revision | — | over 5 years ago |
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A: Technical Writer Skill Set Some core skills for a technical writer are: - Ability to communicate effectively in writing. - Ability to understand the subject matter (what you're documenting) from the user's perspective, including the user's needs. - Ability to understand the subject matter enough to reason about its be... (more) |
— | over 5 years ago |
| Edit | Post #280477 | Question closed | — | over 5 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280477 |
Hello and welcome to Writing Codidact! This question is very broad so I'm putting it on hold for now. Can you edit to describe what problems you're running into? We're much better at solving specific problems than disseminating general hints. Every situation is a little different, so please t... (more) |
— | over 5 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279891 |
For feedback before submitting elsewhere for publication, need to consider that some publishers won't accept anything that's been "previously published". We can restrict visibility of a category to people with accounts to keep stuff out of Google, but it'd mean you wouldn't be able to usefully s... (more) |
— | almost 6 years ago |
| Edit | Post #279082 |
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— | almost 6 years ago |
| Edit | Post #279085 |
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— | almost 6 years ago |
| Edit | Post #28126 |
Post edited: updated link, integrated edit |
— | almost 6 years ago |
| Edit | Post #35035 |
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— | almost 6 years ago |
| Edit | Post #35150 |
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— | almost 6 years ago |