Simple and general guide for installing user scripts

[sizzlemctwizzle]

https://openuserjs.org/corner/Userscript_HOWTO_for_newbies

This user has the right idea. I'd really like to do something like this.

[Martii]

JRInge initiated at https://github.com/OpenUserJs/OpenUserJS.org/wiki/Userscript-beginners-HOWTO :)

[JRInge]

Is there somewhere here I can put images to use in the wiki? Bear in mind I have zero knowledge of Github!

[Martii]

Is there somewhere here I can put images to use in the wiki?

For static entries you'll need to be familar with git or git-gui and clone the wiki to have them sitting in the images subfolder... I just created that and popped our favicon16.png into it.
Current access path is:

![alt attribute](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wiki/OpenUserJS/OpenUserJS.org/images/favicon16.png "title attribute")

If you aren't quite ready for this just add them to this issue by dragging and dropping and send a @OpenUserJs/admin message (or one our usernames with an @ symbol in front of it if you can't do that. Example: @Martii and it should be bolded if GH is allowing you to do it) and one of us will put it in for you for a bit until you get used to git and git-gui. You can still put the markdown code on what you think the filename should be via the online editor. I don't see any other way to do this with the online editor. I prefer png image format because transparency is available.

[Martii]

@JRInge
These pages look great... a couple of suggestions when some of us get into collaborating a bit...

1. Don't say "written by..."... we already know that by visualization of the commit history.
2. When we do have others coming in... make sure you fetch the remote first and merge to resolve any conflicts... I assume you are using origin only... so to make sure your edits don't get overwritten and we don't overwrite yours... always do a fetch orgin and merge it into your branch changes... then merge to origin and push to upstream.

:)

[Martii]

This is a work in progress with several pages already created... closing... reopen if needed.

[Martii]

@JRInge
I've made a few changes on how to make pages in the wiki. They are denoted currently on the homepage.

Most everything wiki styleguide is complete I think.... probably will work on it some more to make it a bit more patterned. Nice job again... now that I've had some major time to look into it. :)

[JRInge]

If those HOWTO pages look OK, what would be a good way of linking to them from the main site? I've linked directly to them from the descriptions of a couple of my scripts, but it would be nice to have something built into the layout. I realise that the "About" link at the bottom of the oujs pages already takes you to the list of wiki pages on github, but that might not be especially intuitive for the newbies I had in mind as a target audience. Most of my scripts' users are far more interested in the function of the scripts than the magic involved getting them working.

[Martii]

it would be nice to have something built into the layout.

Worked on that last night which is why #290 exists. Your table is being ignored and shows just the plain markdown code. Hopefully as soon as that is closed we'll try merging some pages in. Still deciding on sanitizing too. Auto sanitized in current implementation. The images probably need to be sized a little smaller too and thumbed. Haven't decided on a max size yet. Needs to be bottom of the barrel viewport rez. Found the CSS to handle this. Still looking into auto scaling but I don't think our markdown does that automagically. Automagic is present

I realise that the "About" link at the bottom of the oujs pages already takes you to the list of wiki pages on github

Try some of the other ones. :)

[Martii]

@JRInge
Currently deployed at http://openuserjs.org/about/Userscript-Beginners-HOWTO and beyond that. It might be best to make any necessary changes on the GH wiki here and we can then merge/copy in any changes in a final pull request... this will allow you some flexibility on keeping the noise level down I think. There are a few more things to decide and I'd appreciate your input on #296. Thanks again for your efforts. :)