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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 -----
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 "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.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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