Geoff
LOL !
Let me give you a quick summary (as best as a dumb electrical and software
engineer can manage !) of some of the jargon I used.
Wiki - supposedly the Hawaiian word for "quick". Wikis are user editable
web sites, which generally have a lot of features to make it easy to edit
and create cross-links between keywords and articles.
Mediawiki - the software behind the Wikipedia freely editable encyclopaedia
(see http://en.wikipedia.org/ ). Mediawiki is one of many software suites
that implement Wikis.
Dumps - backups, in this case, of the database of articles on a Wiki
site. The Mediawiki and Wikipedia sites do regular database dumps so that
they can be copied by others. This is useful when starting a new Wiki,
since there is no Help information or templates provided i.e. you get a
TOTALLY blank slate in every regard (not always helpful).
Namespace - Mediawiki allows you to have several sub-sites. Each has a
specific name, and thus, its space within the Wiki is called a namespace.
S/N ratio - signal to noise ratio. A term normally used in relation to
communications. The more signal, and the less noise, the better !
Don't worry Geoff - what you really need to know is that others on this
list are putting an Australian gliding Wiki together, and you and everyone
else will hopefully benefit and be able to contribute to it. In the
meantime, have a play around on the Wikipedia site (mentioned above) and
have a look at some topics you're familiar with. Then see if you can add
some further light and knowledge to some of the articles.
Cheers
Jason
At 08:05 AM 24/01/2006, you wrote:
Jason,
As a dumb mechanical engineer that only (just) understands Levers &
Fulcrums .......... and has only just mastered posting claims on the OLC.
Do you know anyone who can translate that into my lingo?
Regards Geoff
----- Original Message -----
From: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Jason and Jemima Armistead
To: <mailto:[email protected]>Discussion of issues
relating to Soaring in Australia.
Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 7:51 AM
Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] Anyone interested in creating a gliding Wiki ?
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
"<http://www.ausgliding.com>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 <<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[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>http://www.osdc.com.au - Open Source
Developers Conference * - *
> > Scott Penrose
> > Open source developer
> > <http://linux.dd.com.au/>http://linux.dd.com.au/
> > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[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>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
> >
<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]
> > To check or change subscription details, visit:
> >
<http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring>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
_______________________________________________
Aus-soaring mailing list
<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]
To check or change subscription details, visit:
<http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring>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
_______________________________________________
Aus-soaring mailing list
[email protected]
To check or change subscription details, visit:
http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring
