Gus Already had a quick look at your new site.
One thing that Mediawiki DOESN'T come with is the help, since it's built into the Wiki database itself.
You can get a dump from Mediawiki's project "Meta" i.e. meta.wikimedia.org - and do a search for dumps and import this into your site. It is a bit tricky because you only want the English language Help namespace, not the entire Wiki (which would be a lot of excess fluff and a very low S/N ratio !)
I did this for our work Wiki which is still V1.4.x series. I need to convert it to V1.5.x anyway, so I'll see if I can get this for you if required - it's not very big once it's ZIP-ed
If you have any specific Mediawiki questions, feel free to contact me directly rather than via Aus-Soaring.
Regards Jason Armistead At 11:45 PM 23/01/2006, Gus wrote:
I think wikis are a great idea. I've gone ahead and registered the name "www.ausgliding.com" and in a day or two once I have it set up will have a gliding wiki there that can be contributed to by all. Feel free to put up wiring diagrams, tost sizes, thermalling tips, pilot profiles, whatever you like. I'm also going to put up a bulletin board (using phpBB) that everyone can use in a similar way to a mailing list, except everything is grouped by topic and it reduces the chances of repeating topics all the time. And great time wasters for work. I'm open to suggestions about other content we can put up there. It's completely unofficial, and only useful if we contribute once it's up. Let me know your ideas. Gus On 1/22/06, Scott Penrose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 22/01/2006, at 19:05, Jason Armistead wrote: > > But a lot of information, as it relates to Australian soaring, > > where to get equipment, etc, (the kind of stuff that gets asked > > from time to time here on Aus-Soaring) is really not what Wikipedia > > is all about. > > There are no rules for what a wiki is used for. What you described > above sounds like a perfect thing for an Australian Wiki. > > Someone mentioned that there is already heaps of information on > WikiPedia - but that is Encyclopaedic in nature - it is not really > the place for details information on wiring diagrams, what wax to > use, how to connect a B50 to a Blah etc. They are really quite > different. > > In the end though, some people only like lists, some like wikis and > some only like read only web pages - you can't make it perfect for > everyone. > > Scott > -- > * - * http://www.osdc.com.au - Open Source Developers Conference * - * > Scott Penrose > Open source developer > http://linux.dd.com.au/ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Dismaimer: Open sauce usually ends up never coming out (of the bottle). > > Please do not send me Word or PowerPoint attachments. > See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html > > Microsoft is not the answer. It's the question. And the answer is no. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Aus-soaring mailing list > [email protected] > To check or change subscription details, visit: > http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring > > > _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list [email protected] To check or change subscription details, visit: http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring
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