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geekhack Projects => Making Stuff Together! => Topic started by: rknize on Mon, 30 July 2012, 14:31:09
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We are still working out how to manage the Wiki. We'd love to make it completely open, but that is impossible for reasons that many are likely to be aware of. For now we've setup a special, open name space for anyone to contribute articles and edits. Once an contributer feels that an article is ready to be published in the main wiki, please post about it in this forum and we will move or copy it over. Frequent contributers may receive rights to edit and manage the main wiki pages as well.
To create an article in the incoming name space, just prefix "Incoming:" to the article title that you wish to use in the search box. If there isn't an article by that name, you will have the opportunity to make one. If there is, you will be able to edit it. For example, to start an article titled "ClickClack", you would type "Incoming:ClickClack" into the wiki search bar.
Feel free to start a thread here at any point along the way to provide a link, show off your work, get feedback, etc.
As with everything on the new site, we are still tweaking things and are open to suggestions.
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So what your saying is ripster fu€ked this up for everyone?
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So what your saying is ripster fu€ked this up for everyone?
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Going to try this out.
Thanks
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So then there will be no categories, templates, other namespaces?
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We'll add them as needed.
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Seeing what happened to the last wiki, and what happened to ripster, I'm not really hot on adding content.
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Be specific and we can address your concerns.
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I don't trust the wiki's lifetime and I don't trust the GH staff to give me some options over the content I put on this site if I ever get into some sort of trouble with the staff.
I also don't like the closeness of the wiki, with the whole needs to be trusted before editting thing. And I don't like the fact that the information is split over multiple sites.
I'm sorry to say this, but to me the DT wiki is just a lot more appealing, for the reasons I just mentionned.
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Regarding the "closedness", this is something that we are still working out. It was wide open at the start and trouble started immediately. The model we have now is to get things going.
I don't really understand your other concerns, but that is your choice.
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Yea I am also concerned about the closed nature of the new wikis and frankly that defeats the purpose of a wiki.
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I think we all agree with that. There are other options with MW that we are exploring.
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what's the reservation? Mediawiki allows users to do a lot and they don't have to be sysop.
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I don't trust the wiki's lifetime and I don't trust the GH staff to give me some options over the content I put on this site if I ever get into some sort of trouble with the staff.
I also don't like the closeness of the wiki, with the whole needs to be trusted before editting thing. And I don't like the fact that the information is split over multiple sites.
I'm sorry to say this, but to me the DT wiki is just a lot more appealing, for the reasons I just mentionned.
Then feel free not to contribute.
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I agree - a wiki will never grow if we have to create a new topic here to upload an image or a new topic here to create a new page or a new page in a namespace other than Main in hopes that it gets promoted to a real page - wikis are supposed to be open
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As I've stated, we ultimately want to make it as open as possible. We are still doing a lot of work on various parts of the site behind the scenes. For now, this is what we have.