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<h1 id="qa_blog_manual">W3C Blog manual</h1>
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<p class="intro">The <a href="http://www.w3.org/QA/">W3C Blog</a> is an
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opportunity for the W3C Team and collaborators to interact with the Web
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community. This blog is operated by Ian Jacobs, managed by Coralie Mercier. It
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is <strong>not supported by the W3C systems team</strong>. We set up these
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guidelines to make people independent, <strong>read all of them before</strong>
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sending any questions.</p>
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<h2 id="quickfaq">Quick FAQ about the W3C Blog</h2>
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<dl id="faq">
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<dt id="blog-engine">Which software is used for this blog?</dt>
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<dd><p>Blogs are systems to manage automatically a certain number of pages.
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They offer an editing user interface and automate the creation of
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archives, indexes, feeds, etc. The W3C Blog uses <a
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href="http://www.movabletype.org/opensource/">Movable Type Open Source
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Engine</a>. We have chosen this engine because it allows us to keep the
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full blog into the dated space of W3C under CVS.</p>
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</dd>
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<dt id="feedback">How do I give feedback?</dt>
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<dd><p>If you have any comment on the W3C Blog, or suggestions for this
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FAQ, please send an email to <a
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href="mailto:w3t-comm@w3.org">w3t-comm@w3.org</a>.</p>
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</dd>
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<dt id="contributor">How do I become a contributor?</dt>
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<dd><p>You need an account to have access to the editor user interface of
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the W3C Blog. To get this account, <a
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href="mailto:w3t-comm@w3.org&SUBJECT=qa%20blog%20account%20request&BODY=Comm%2C%0A%0AI%20would%20like%20to%20become%20a%20contributor%20for%20the%20Q%26A%20blog.%20Could%20you%20open%20an%20account%0A%0AFirst%20name%3A%0ALast%20name%3A%0AW3C%20login%3A%20%0AEmail%3A%0APersonal%20URL%3A">send
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an email to w3t-comm@w3.org </a> with the following information.</p>
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<ul>
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<li>Firstname Lastname</li>
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<li>Your w3c login</li>
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<li>Homepage URL</li>
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<li>Email address</li>
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</ul>
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<p>Depending on our trip schedule and our location in the world, it might
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take a few days.</p>
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</dd>
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<dt id="new-entry">How to create a new blog post?</dt>
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<dd><p>We created a URI shortcut to <a
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href="http://www.w3.org/QA/new">create a new blog post</a>, keep it as a
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bookmark. You will access a window with a form.</p>
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<ol>
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<li>Under <kbd>Create Entry</kbd>, there is a text field. Enter your
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title.</li>
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<li>The big text area will be used to enter the body of your text.
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Don't be afraid, you can save and come back later. There is a drop
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down menu on the right, where you can choose your input format.</li>
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<li>Then enter your tags</li>
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<li>Select the Category</li>
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<li>Keep the status Unpublished for now</li>
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<li>Save. If you are not satisfied with the basename, you can modify
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it.</li>
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</ol>
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<p>New blog entries are <strong>micro-blogged</strong> automatically to
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<a href="http://identi.ca/w3c">identi.ca</a> and replicated to <a
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href="http://twitter.com/w3c">twitter</a>. Read more on the <a
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href="/Press/Plan/microblogging.html">micro-blogging manual</a>
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[team-only].</p>
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</dd>
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<dt id="excerpt">What is an excerpt?</dt>
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<dd><p>When you create a new entry, there is a box with the label
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<strong>Excerpt</strong>. In this box, you can create
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<strong>one</strong> simple paragraph. The goal is to be a teasing for
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the rest of the article that will appear on the first page of the
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blog.</p>
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<p>It can be written in HTML but <strong>only with inline
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elements</strong>, things that would usually go inside a paragraph
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element (p). If you are not sure, use an external editor, create a
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paragraph, type text and copy only the markup in between <p> and
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</p> </p>
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<p>If you really don't know what to put in the excerpt, you can also just
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let Movable Type automatically fill it with the first few words of your
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entry, but it is generally better to come up with an efficient teaser.</p>
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<dt id="input-format">What input format should I use?</dt>
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<dd><p>You have choices between many syntaxes for writing your blog post.
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For more details about choosing the right syntax for your own needs, you
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can read the <a
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href="http://www.movabletype.org/documentation/author/text-formatting.html"
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title="Text Formatting in Movable Type | Movable Type Docs">Movable Type
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documentation on text formatting</a>. The default after your account is
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created is [None]: This format allows you to compose your post in pure
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HTML; the system will not modify your text in any way when your entry is
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published.</p>
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</dd>
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<dt id="meaningful-uri">Want a meaningful URI?</dt>
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<dd>The blog entry basename is automatically generated from your title. The
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limit is around 30 characters. If you care about a meaningful URI, look
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for the "Basename" field on the right-hand side of the Edit Entry page,
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between "Publishing" and "Categories", click on the padlock to update the
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basename. Do this before you publish the entry.</dd>
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<dd>A few tips: Use "-" [hyphen] for spaces instead of "_" [underscore]
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(better indexing), think about words that will help find the content.
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(indexing again), shorter is better.</dd>
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<dd>W3C Staff can read Karl's <a
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href="https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Team/w3t-archive/2011Apr/0050.html">tip
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in full</a> [team-only].</dd>
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<dt id="publishing-post">Publishing my blog post.</dt>
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<dd><p>When you have written your blog post, there are two buttons Save and
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Preview. </p>
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<p>Once you are finished (or at intermediate stage), push the save
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button. It will keep a copy, so you can continue to think about it and
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finish editing later on. There is a pop-down list with the label Status.
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Your article will be public as soon as you <strong>select
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"Publish"</strong> and Save.</p>
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<p>That said, there might be a <strong>delay of 2 to 5 minutes</strong>
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between the time you have pushed Save and the article really appears on
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the <a href="http://www.w3.org/QA/">W3C blog</a>. Also, note that you
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might get an error after you saved. Don't trust it! We haven't found a
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way to avoid this error to be displayed. Just ignore it, your entry
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should be saved.</p>
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</dd>
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<dt id="comment-moderation">How do I moderate comments?</dt>
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<dd><p>All comments on the W3C Blog are moderated. It means that they are
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queued <strong>until you approve them manually</strong>. The policy of
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the W3C Blog in a spirit of openness with regards to Web communities try
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to stay open as much as possible with regards to the comments. We reject
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all comments without a given name <strong>and</strong> email address. We
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usually reject comments with an aggressive tone or off-topic.</p>
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<p>Some comments may appear valid but contain (a) link(s). The motivation
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behind may be to promote a webiste. The advice is to either remove the
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link(s) when possible, or edit out the "http://www." part.</p>
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<p>We catch a lot of spam automatically, really a lot. Still, a few of
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them goes through and are waiting in the moderation queue. When you
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access the blog, give us a hand by deleting them. Be careful to not
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delete valid comments.</p>
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</dd>
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<dt id="new-category">Do you need a new category?</dt>
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<dd><p>You can assign categories to blog posts. It will help to publish
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them in specific destination. This W3C Blog is shared by a few
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communities. We used specific categories for specific communities.</p>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="/blog/tag/">TAG blog</a> - Technical Architecture Group -
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Category: Web Architecture</li>
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<li><a href="/html/">HTML WG blog</a> - Category: HTML</li>
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</ul>
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<p>Do not use these category, except if you really know what you are
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doing. If your technology is not represented, draft (eventually publish)
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your blog post and send us an email to w3t-comm with a request and
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explanation for adding a new category.</p>
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</dd>
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<dt id="tags">How do I use/create tags?</dt>
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<dd><p>You can assign tags to your blog post. Tags are short keywords, you
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can use any of them without worries. Try to reuse tags already used in
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previous posts. When you start typing, a drop down list of suggestions
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will appear. <strong>Separate each of your tags with commas</strong>.</p>
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<p class="example">Example: A blog post about html and
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internationalization could carry the following tags <code>html,
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i18n</code></p>
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</dd>
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<dt>I need a template for a specific page</dt>
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<dd><p>Sometimes you might need to have the content of a specific category
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of the W3C Blog on a page elsewhere on W3C Web site. We can customize a
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template for it. Refrain to do so, though. The more templates we have to
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manage, the more complex the system becomes. An example of usage of
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template is the <a href="http://www.w3.org/html/" title="W3C HTML">HTML
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home page</a>. The articles displayed there are coming from the W3C Blog
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posted with the category HTML, as well for the <a
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href="http://www.w3.org/blog/tag/"
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title="TAG Lines -- musings of the W3C Technical Architecture Group">TAG</a>.</p>
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</dd>
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</dl>
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<div id="footer">
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<address>
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<a href="mailto:coralie@w3.org">Coralie Mercier</a><br />
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Created on December 21, 2007 by <a href="http://www.w3.org/People/karl/">Karl
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Dubost</a>, <a href="http://www.w3.org/People/olivier/">Olivier
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Théreaux</a><br />
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<small>Last update $Date: 2011/07/18 17:11:53 $ by $Author: coralie $</small>
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