Hi Russ,
I hope you read the whole thread. The topic might have spread into
threads with different subject lines. The topic got kicked around for
a few weeks and hasn't been mentioned since. I don't know why. Seems
like a good idea to me. Some subscribers were enthusiastic about it.
At least one revDocWiki has been attempted before. It didn't work
out, for various reasons I don't know much about. I can't remember
the name of the guy who previously attempted it. He either subscribes
to this list, or people who know him subscribe.
I said on the old thread that the ideal revDocWiki would begin with
the existing Rev docs, which would then be improved, edited,
expanded, scripting examples added, and maybe links to mini-stacks
that demonstrating various features and topics in more depth, and so
on. It seemed to me that there would have to be some responsible
editorial control over the Wiki, even if the editors were volunteers
authorized by Rev, or authorized by some kind of panel of Rev gurus,
or something.
Cheers,
Tim
I'm fairly new to Revolution. I recently purchased Dreamcard and
while there are things that I really like about it, there have been
several issues with it that took way too much time for me to either
figure out work arounds on my own or search through the archives of
this list for solutions.
I've found searching the list archives to be helpful, but time
consuming to actually read through different threads until one
person understood the question the other person was asking or
experienced the same malfunction. I started wondering if anyone had
a wiki where users could post helpful how-to's and sanity saving
work arounds. Not wanting to reinvent the wheel, I searched the list
archives and found this thread. It seems like others are interested
in doing the same thing but that nothing has yet materialized. (I
did find this
http://revolution.lexicall.org/wiki/tiki-index.php?page=SoftwareRevolution,
but felt that it wasn't quite what I was looking for.)
So, I've set up a wiki at http://revdocwiki.wikispaces.org/ . I've
posted the 3 work arounds for the issues that have caused me the
most frustration up until now. Wikispaces.org is new to me, so I
can't vouch for them as a reliable space to host this information,
however, I figure it's worth trying it out.
If anyone else is interested, please take a look and maybe post some
information there as well.
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Russ Martin
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us love one another. -- Henry David Thoreau
On Jul 25, 2005, at 5:43 PM, Timothy Miller wrote:
Someone asked earlier today, in re the hypothetical wiki that might
be used to improve and expand the rev documentation: "What is Rev
willing to kick in?" or something along those lines.
An obvious first step would be for Rev to convert its current
onboard docs into a format suitable for a wiki, and allow the
wikiMaster use of those docs, without charge. Rev could retain the
copyright, if it wanted to -- if they are copyrighted.
Rev might want to abstain from any more obligations to the wiki,
until the Rev people see how it's working out. Heck, the wikiMaster
or wikiGroup might be able to charge Rev for the improved version
of its own docs. However, it seems more civilized for Rev and the
wikiMasters to reach some kind of agreement beforehand. That's more
civilized than hostageware.
Of course, this is all hypothetical, at best, really more like
highly speculative.
What would *I* be willing to do? Well, at least I can write. If a
property, chunk, object, command, etc., might benefit from a
verbose alternative to the usual terse dictionary entry, I would be
willing to write verbose explanations of some items I understand
well, and submit them to the wiki.
Cheers,
Tim
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