[documentation] Call for help: 160 links to be added to project pages and module help pages

[Kieran Lal]

On Jan 16, 2006, at 10:42 PM, Kobus Myburgh wrote:

> There has been a call for help here, but in almost 12 hours, a lot  
> of discussion has been going on, but no consensus, and no takers.
>
Actually Boris and Thom have stepped forward to help. But we need more.

> I stay with my point that external links go in a blank window, but:
>
> 1. Once the decision has been made
> 2. Once the link format has been finalized
>
> I will take up the task of adding these links.
>
Any objections to external links having a target="something"?

I have thought of making all internal context sensitive links  
target="administration".

Cheers,
Kieran


> K.
>
>
>>>> drupal at oadae.net 1/17/2006 8:31:38 AM >>>
> On Monday 16 January 2006 22:05, Kieran Lal wrote:
>> On Jan 16, 2006, at 9:44 PM, Jason Flatt wrote:
>>> On Monday 16 January 2006 13:27, Charlie Lowe wrote:
>>>> - users should finish reading through the list of what they can  
>>>> do in
>>>> their site before encountering a link which takes them out of
>>>> their site
>>>> back to drupal.org for additional information.
>>>
>>> Aren't all links on drupal.org?
>>
>> No, they are the administer >> help >> modulename on your Drupal
>> site, as well as http://drupal.org/handbook/modules on Drupal.org.
>> This administration help pages does double duty.
>
> Interesting.  All of the modules I looked at, which was only the  
> first three
> or four of both Drupal and contrib, either have no links in the  
> "You can"
> list, or link beck to drupal.org itself.  The BitTorrent [0] and  
> BuddyList
> [1] modules are good examples.  Of course, I get Access Denied  
> messages when
> I click on those links.  Maybe I'm missing something.  Are these pages
> supposed to be installed locally?
>
> [0] http://drupal.org/handbook/modules/bittorrent
> [1] http://drupal.org/handbook/modules/buddylist
>
>>> Where else would the users be directed?
>>
>> They would stay on their Drupal site administration rather than be
>> directed to Drupal.org.
>>
>> Kieran
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