Re: [slim] New Wiki Open for Editing!

2008-07-16 Thread 4mula1
When I originally wrote the Solaris wiki I attached some files for use with the Service Management Facility (SMF) which are a couple of shell scripts and XML files. Currently files with no extension and XML files are not allowed. In the interim I just copied and pasted the contents into the

Re: [slim] New Wiki Open for Editing!

2008-06-25 Thread Matt Wise
FYI ... I've moved the Wiki to our new server rack, so please let me know if you have any issues with it. Until the DNS changes, you may notice you get redirected to http://test.wiki.slimdevices.com. This is normal. -- Matt Wise

Re: [slim] New Wiki Open for Editing!

2008-06-12 Thread Phil Meyer
1. It would avoid that changes by known contributors shows up as just an IP-address just because they forgot to login before editing the page. I agree. I did this the first time I posted, and then set up an account. I couldn't change the IP address to my user name, so my home IP address is

Re: [slim] New Wiki Open for Editing!

2008-06-11 Thread erland
To someone from Logitech: Is there a reason why the wiki needs to be editable without logging in ? Wouldn't it be better if we required users that want to edit the wiki content to register and login before they are able to edit the wiki contents ? The reason I'm taking this up is: 1. It would

Re: [slim] New Wiki Open for Editing!

2008-06-07 Thread egd
found the solution. Install openoffice.org-java-common and the OpenOffice extension will work. -- egd Internet forums: conclusive proof depth of gene pool is indeed variable, monkeys can be taught to cut code, and world peace is utterly unrealistic...

Re: [slim] New Wiki Open for Editing!

2008-06-06 Thread egd
I've written a howto guide for MusicIP integration (based on the recent thread addressing this) and would like to post it to the Wiki. As I authored it in OpenOffice and would like to avoid having to do all the formatting myself, can anyone give me any tips as to how to overcome the following

Re: [slim] New Wiki Open for Editing!

2008-05-16 Thread andynormancx
Would it be possible to forward links to the old wiki over to the new one ? For example, I found this link on a third party site today: http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?SBRFrontButtonAndLED I should be reasonably straight forward to put a page at http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi that

Re: [slim] New Wiki Open for Editing!

2008-05-14 Thread jwka
Hi, just wanted to let you know that the link shown in the first page of this discussion does not work. here is the one i found out to work: http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/Main_Page (btw: it makes good sense to have the link http://wiki.slimdevices.com working. So, a redirect on your

Re: [slim] New Wiki Open for Editing!

2008-05-14 Thread bpa
The current search is not very good for users who are looking for support of audio formats such as wma or aac. If you search for WMA, wma, AAC or aac - no hits. Yet there are pages. WMA page - http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/WMA AAC page - http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/AAC --

Re: [slim] New Wiki Open for Editing!

2008-05-14 Thread smc2911
JimC;300375 Wrote: Sort of... the fix is just to reinstate the wikiradio portion of the old wiki, at least for now. So everything that was there before will be available.Sounds fair enough. Any ETA on when it will be reinstated? -- smc2911 http://www.last.fm/user/smc2911/

Re: [slim] New Wiki Open for Editing!

2008-05-09 Thread JimC
smc2911;299677 Wrote: Excellent news re WikiRadio! Will the existing opml files be migrated over? Sort of... the fix is just to reinstate the wikiradio portion of the old wiki, at least for now. So everything that was there before will be available. There's a lot of under the hood upgrading

Re: [slim] New Wiki Open for Editing!

2008-05-09 Thread JimC
JJZolx;300210 Wrote: I think I asked the same thing. These _really_ need to be updated to a readable form. It would also yield better search results. It would probably take some type of global search and replace, as the URLs reflect the page titles. In MediaWiki a space in a page title

Re: [slim] New Wiki Open for Editing!

2008-05-09 Thread JimC
bpa;299619 Wrote: I think there are a few other areas where attachments were useful. If there was an Slimdevices ftp site where registered users could save small text files (and possibly make directorties) and put the URL link in a page - then the problem would go away. I think in the

Re: [slim] New Wiki Open for Editing!

2008-05-08 Thread erland
Is it really necessary to use these long page names without any spaces in now when we are using MediaWiki as the wiki system ? For example: http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/SwitchingFromSubversionBackToGeneralReleaseOrDowngradingSlimServer Wouldn't it be better to use names with spaces so

Re: [slim] New Wiki Open for Editing!

2008-05-08 Thread JJZolx
erland;300183 Wrote: Is it really necessary to use these long page names without any spaces in now when we are using MediaWiki as the wiki system ? For example: http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/SwitchingFromSubversionBackToGeneralReleaseOrDowngradingSlimServer Wouldn't it be better

Re: [slim] New Wiki Open for Editing!

2008-05-07 Thread JimC
erland;297545 Wrote: Are there any rules regarding donation links in pages related to third party plugins ? Am I allowed to have a donation link like I have in the following page for the Dynamic Playlist plugin ? http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/DynamicPlayList#Bugs_and_new_features

Re: [slim] New Wiki Open for Editing!

2008-05-07 Thread JimC
erland;297571 Wrote: Does anyone have a suggestion for a naming strategy of pages that is related to setting up a configuration with various third party plugins ? Maybe the actual page name doesn't matter and we should just put them in a specific category instead ? In that case, any

Re: [slim] New Wiki Open for Editing!

2008-05-07 Thread bpa
I think there are a few other areas where attachments were useful. If there was an Slimdevices ftp site where registered users could save small text files (and possibly make directorties) and put the URL link in a page - then the problem would go away. I think in the Plugin development guide

Re: [slim] New Wiki Open for Editing!

2008-05-07 Thread smc2911
JimC;299610 Wrote: We're working on a fix for that... give us another day or two and we should have the WikiRadio pages up and running. Not sure about how we'll handle InfoBrowser yet... -= JimExcellent news re WikiRadio! Will the existing opml files be migrated over? -- smc2911

Re: [slim] New Wiki Open for Editing!

2008-05-07 Thread erland
bpa;299619 Wrote: I think there are a few other areas where attachments were useful. If there was an Slimdevices ftp site where registered users could save small text files (and possibly make directorties) and put the URL link in a page - then the problem would go away. Isn't it

Re: [slim] New Wiki Open for Editing!

2008-05-07 Thread bpa
Isn't it possible to use the Upload file feature in the left menu, or am I missing something ? I thought there was an earlier discussion that attachments couldn't be added and I assume (possibly mistakenly because of the help text) the Upload was limited to images and media and some

Re: [slim] New Wiki Open for Editing!

2008-05-05 Thread smc2911
bpa;296977 Wrote: For wikiradio users -the wikireadio page also has disappeared - it was supposed to stay until equivalent functionality was provided.I'm missing my wikiradio! Can it be revived? It was such a great feature. -- smc2911 http://www.last.fm/user/smc2911/

Re: [slim] New Wiki Open for Editing!

2008-05-05 Thread erland
Is there a reason the wiki is editable by anonymous users ? Wouldn't it be better to at least configure it so users have to register and login before they edit a page ? I'm guessing that this would get rid of some spamming besides the advantage that you would always see who has edited a page.

Re: [slim] New Wiki Open for Editing!

2008-05-05 Thread herljus
I miss wiki radio and found this a simple and easy way to access loads of stations -- herljus herljus's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15369 View this thread:

Re: [slim] New Wiki Open for Editing!

2008-05-01 Thread erland
Does anyone have a suggestion for a naming strategy of pages that is related to setting up a configuration with various third party plugins ? Maybe the actual page name doesn't matter and we should just put them in a specific category instead ? In that case, any suggestion on a good category

Re: [slim] New Wiki Open for Editing!

2008-05-01 Thread ceejay
erland;297544 Wrote: If someone at Logitech sees this, it would be great if the old wiki content could be available somewhere a bit longer. It's sometimes good to be able to look at the previous wiki page when you are correcting the page in the MediaWiki, especially when you are correcting

Re: [slim] New Wiki Open for Editing!

2008-05-01 Thread ceejay
erland;297571 Wrote: Does anyone have a suggestion for a naming strategy of pages that is related to setting up a configuration with various third party plugins ? Maybe the actual page name doesn't matter and we should just put them in a specific category instead ? In that case, any

Re: [slim] New Wiki Open for Editing!

2008-04-30 Thread vrobin
Still no access to the old InfoBrowser wiki content? -- vrobin vrobin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11705 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=46350

Re: [slim] New Wiki Open for Editing!

2008-04-30 Thread erland
If someone at Logitech sees this, it would be great if the old wiki content could be available somewhere a bit longer. It's sometimes good to be able to look at the previous wiki page when you are correcting the page in the MediaWiki, especially when you are correcting links that have gone bad in

Re: [slim] New Wiki Open for Editing!

2008-04-30 Thread erland
Are there any rules regarding donation links in pages related to third party plugins ? Am I allowed to have a donation link like I have in the following page for the Dynamic Playlist plugin ? http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/DynamicPlayList#Bugs_and_new_features -- erland Erland

Re: [slim] New Wiki Open for Editing!

2008-04-29 Thread ceejay
Ah, ok, see what you've done now. I found it confusing at first as when you click one of the category links you get taken to a page that doesn't exist (the page for that category). I can see that being useful for someone like you editing some pages and wanting to keep track, but you weren't

Re: [slim] New Wiki Open for Editing!

2008-04-29 Thread ceejay
On a separate matter, I've popped a couple of notes in discussion pages but there doesn't seem to be an easy way to go to pages where there is discussion present? Which isn't making this an effective means of provoking one! Any comments on a better way to do this would be welcome. Also - there

Re: [slim] New Wiki Open for Editing!

2008-04-29 Thread erland
ceejay;296836 Wrote: On a separate matter, I've popped a couple of notes in discussion pages but there doesn't seem to be an easy way to go to pages where there is discussion present? This should find all talk pages available:

Re: [slim] New Wiki Open for Editing!

2008-04-29 Thread erland
ceejay;296658 Wrote: Ah, ok, see what you've done now. I found it confusing at first as when you click one of the category links you get taken to a page that doesn't exist (the page for that category). I can see that being useful for someone like you editing some pages and wanting to keep

Re: [slim] New Wiki Open for Editing!

2008-04-29 Thread ceejay
erland;296850 Wrote: Just to be sure, with parent page I suppose you mean the parent page and not the page you came from ? The reason I'm asking is because the page you came from is probably easiest accessed by just hitting the back button in the web browser. I did really mean parent,

Re: [slim] New Wiki Open for Editing!

2008-04-29 Thread erland
ceejay;296865 Wrote: I did really mean parent, yes. There is a certain amount of inline navigation amongst the various pages, and being able to go up a level seems like a good idea. For the moment I've just added a fixed link at the top of each page, until someone has a better idea. I

Re: [slim] New Wiki Open for Editing!

2008-04-29 Thread bpa
How can we get at the old wiki radio pages to move content - I'd like to copy the Infobrowser stuff but I can't access old wiki ? For wikiradio users -the wikireadio page also has disappeared - it was supposed to stay until equivalent functionality was provided. -- bpa

Re: [slim] New Wiki Open for Editing!

2008-04-28 Thread erland
JimC;292247 Wrote: I'll see if we can turn on subpages... I think that's the best way (it essentially creates a breadcrumb trail of links on the page). I'll also bug BKlaas to see if he has a better method since he was once, long ago, a wiki admin (along with a bunch of other IT stuff)

Re: [slim] New Wiki Open for Editing!

2008-04-28 Thread ceejay
erland;296464 Wrote: Isn't it possible to solve the backlinks by using categories a bit more ? You can see how it looks like for example at the bottom of the following page: http://mwiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/SqueezePlay_Applet_Guide It seems to me that it would at least be a good

Re: [slim] New Wiki Open for Editing!

2008-04-28 Thread erland
ceejay;296537 Wrote: erland - ok, I am obviously being a bit dim here but ... how did you do that? I tried editing the page to see what you'd done and there didn't seem to be anything there to generate the links. Could you give me a clue, please? :) Ceejay Just add the categories the

Re: [slim] New Wiki Open for Editing!

2008-04-19 Thread Fletch
JimC;29 Wrote: Now that I've had a chance to muck about a bit, I think the right thing to do is to add a category tag of Edit Needed. It would look like this: Code: [[Category:Edit Needed]] Then I'll link that to the Under

Re: [slim] New Wiki Open for Editing!

2008-04-19 Thread Fletch
Fletch;293335 Wrote: OK, I must be being dense, but how do I add a category tag to a page? Duh. Figured it out. -- Fletch Fletch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=529 View this thread:

Re: [slim] New Wiki Open for Editing!

2008-04-18 Thread Fletch
Jim, How would you like to handle information for SS 6.x? There is a lot of info on the wiki that is perfectly correct for 6.x, but misleading, useless or just plain wrong for 7.x. Can this info be deleted, or should it be somehow preserved for people running older versions (perhaps because

Re: [slim] New Wiki Open for Editing!

2008-04-18 Thread JimC
Fletch;292824 Wrote: Jim, How would you like to handle information for SS 6.x? There is a lot of info on the wiki that is perfectly correct for 6.x, but misleading, useless or just plain wrong for 7.x. Can this info be deleted, or should it be somehow preserved for people running older

Re: [slim] New Wiki Open for Editing!

2008-04-17 Thread Zaragon
Is there a way to delete pages? I guess potentially that could be dangerous so do we just orphan the page or raise a bug. Or did I miss the option? -- Zaragon Zaragon's Profile:

Re: [slim] New Wiki Open for Editing!

2008-04-17 Thread ceejay
Just a crosspost: at http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?p=292571#post292571 I flag the fact that I have had a go at updating How To Get the Best Audio Quality and invite further updates to that page. Ceejay -- ceejay

Re: [slim] New Wiki Open for Editing!

2008-04-17 Thread JimC
Zaragon;292551 Wrote: Is there a way to delete pages? I guess potentially that could be dangerous so do we just orphan the page or raise a bug. Or did I miss the option? I can see the option to delete a page, but maybe Matt gave me special rights. Why don't you just orphan the page(s) in

Re: [slim] New Wiki Open for Editing!

2008-04-16 Thread ceejay
Whats the best way of adding navigation links amongst a group of pages (eg the BeginnersGuide, or Plugins)? In the old wiki there was the (admittedly very crude) list of backlinks on the left, which made it easy to get back to parent or related pages. Is there a way of adding navigation links

Re: [slim] New Wiki Open for Editing!

2008-04-16 Thread ceejay
Well, thats a new one - in looking at a page I found that that some person had embedded a link to an on-line drugs website! I guess we need to be on the lookout for others (it was in the BeginnersGuideToRipping but isn't any more) Ceejay -- ceejay

Re: [slim] New Wiki Open for Editing!

2008-04-16 Thread smc2911
A quick question (apologies if this has been covered elsewhere): are there any thoughts as to how WikiRadio can be supported in the new Wiki. Also, I noticed that when you create an account on the wiki you are presented with the message Your account has been created. Don't forget to change your

Re: [slim] New Wiki Open for Editing!

2008-04-16 Thread Triode
Don't think wikiradio has been worked out yet... At present you can't upload anything other than image files the wiki so we can't host opml files on it. I would like to think we can have a wiki like interface for submitting radio station links but it would be preferable if Logitech hosted a

Re: [slim] New Wiki Open for Editing!

2008-04-16 Thread Fletch
JimC;291847 Wrote: There is still some work to be done, so anyone who had previously volunteered is more than welcome to dive in and start editing! If you hadn't volunteered, you're still welcome... we can use all the help we can get. There's a page detailing known issues, as well as a

Re: [slim] New Wiki Open for Editing!

2008-04-16 Thread ceejay
ceejay;291927 Wrote: Whats the best way of adding navigation links amongst a group of pages (eg the BeginnersGuide, or Plugins)? In the old wiki there was the (admittedly very crude) list of backlinks on the left, which made it easy to get back to parent or related pages. Is there a

Re: [slim] New Wiki Open for Editing!

2008-04-16 Thread radish
smc2911;291946 Wrote: Also, I noticed that when you create an account on the wiki you are presented with the message Your account has been created. Don't forget to change your Squeezebox preferences. Does this make sense? I'm not sure what preference on the SB would be involved! I'm

Re: [slim] New Wiki Open for Editing!

2008-04-16 Thread JimC
Fletch;292204 Wrote: Jim, Have you had any further thoughts on our previous discussion about all the outdated (and just plain wrong) info in the wiki? As I mentioned before, it has gotten especially bad since 7.0 was released and there's still a lot of old info around that hasn't been

Re: [slim] New Wiki Open for Editing!

2008-04-16 Thread radish
One thing I just noticed doing the hardware overview is that some of the product specific pages have pretty long names. For example, hotlinking the word Squeezebox is going to be a pretty common requirement - but it needs this mouthful : Code: Everyone loves a

Re: [slim] New Wiki Open for Editing!

2008-04-16 Thread JimC
ceejay;291927 Wrote: Whats the best way of adding navigation links amongst a group of pages (eg the BeginnersGuide, or Plugins)? In the old wiki there was the (admittedly very crude) list of backlinks on the left, which made it easy to get back to parent or related pages. Is there a

Re: [slim] New Wiki Open for Editing!

2008-04-15 Thread JJZolx
Jim, is there any way to break apart the run-on words used in the previous wiki? Things like: RunningMultipleSlimServers .../index.php/RunningMultipleSlimServers Some kind of global search and replace (a lot of them, needless to say)? Looking at Wikipedia, I gather that this url, if spaces

Re: [slim] New Wiki Open for Editing!

2008-04-15 Thread JimC
JJZolx;291854 Wrote: Jim, is there any way to break apart the run-on words used in the previous wiki? Things like: RunningMultipleSlimServers .../index.php/RunningMultipleSlimServers Some kind of global search and replace (a lot of them, needless to say)? Looking at Wikipedia, I

Re: [slim] New Wiki Open for Editing!

2008-04-15 Thread erland
I've updated the plugin pages due to two isses: 1. mailto links looked like this: [Firstname Lastname mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] While they need to look like this in MediaWiki: [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Firstname Lastname] I've changed this in the plugin pages, but there might be other places.