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Author:  Dan [ Sun Dec 11, 2005 9:23 pm ]
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I thought that i whould test out some new software that our host is providing throw there instation system. Baiclky the idea is a system that is total control by the users. It is up to the users to add content, update content or add/edit anything they whont. There is alot of poteantal for abouse in such a system but i thought i might as well give it a chance and see what the users of this could do.

The wiki is at:

www.compsci.ca/wiki

or

wiki.compsci.ca


You do not need an acount to edit or add anything so feal free to give it a try.

Author:  Paul [ Sun Dec 11, 2005 10:56 pm ]
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Work in progress: Duckfest!

Author:  Mazer [ Sun Dec 11, 2005 11:06 pm ]
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Clicking "random page" only takes you to the main page. Is there something that needs to be done by people writing articles?

Author:  Dan [ Sun Dec 11, 2005 11:23 pm ]
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seems to work fine to me, could be that your browser is cachsing it or you are realy unlucky.

Author:  Hikaru79 [ Sun Dec 11, 2005 11:50 pm ]
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This is excellent! Kudos to Dan! Now we have something nice and concrete to point beginners to when they ask the same question for the fiftieth time. Smile

Did you also outfit it with LaTeX? WikiMedia wiki's have LaTeX support built in, of course, but the software needs to be installed on the server as well. It would be really useful Smile

Good job, Dan! *THREE CHEERS*

Author:  Dan [ Mon Dec 12, 2005 2:07 am ]
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i will look in to LaTeX, it may all ready be installed on the server but idk yet....

Author:  Tony [ Mon Dec 12, 2005 9:43 am ]
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Oh, this is turning out much funner than I originally thought. We might need to hack up our bbtags to link to wiki articles Laughing

Author:  md [ Mon Dec 12, 2005 3:41 pm ]
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It seems the "wanted pages" link only shows a few of the pages that have yet to be created... Other then that it's quite cool... now to start adding to it... perhaps I'll move some of the tutorials over...

Author:  Amailer [ Mon Dec 12, 2005 10:57 pm ]
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Great idea! But can't people delete other peoples work?
Anyhow, is there a way to tell who wrote what?

Cool though Very Happy Now people can post their long ideas/tuts there Very Happy
so cool...
great way to use this Very Happy

Author:  Hikaru79 [ Mon Dec 12, 2005 11:02 pm ]
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Amailer wrote:
Great idea! But can't people delete other peoples work?

Technically yes, but Wiki's keep track of page history, so restoring the previous version would only be a mouse click away. And of course, the offender would be banned.
Amailer wrote:
Anyhow, is there a way to tell who wrote what?

Yes. The page history Smile (And "Recent Changes" page).

Author:  Amailer [ Mon Dec 12, 2005 11:06 pm ]
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Ah, should have explored... Thanks Razz
In our profiles we should have a link to the users wiki profile post like Tonys Razz

Author:  md [ Mon Dec 12, 2005 11:07 pm ]
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Lots of new stuff added today... I'd encourage everyone to give it a look and if they are willing to get a little messy add something new; the IRC channel is a great palce to get help if you don't know what you are doing Razz

Author:  timmytheturtle [ Tue Dec 13, 2005 1:07 am ]
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I think the Compsci logo on the top-left side of the wiki page(s) needs to be shrunk a bit

Author:  Cervantes [ Tue Dec 13, 2005 1:38 pm ]
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Cornflake wrote:
perhaps I'll move some of the tutorials over...


An excellent idea, but there are some issues. Should tutorials be maintained on both the forum and the wiki, or the wiki exclusively? How would the formatting work? Would we have to manually edit the text to fit the format style of wikipedia? Probably, since there are a lot of differences. This means that this will probably be a big project, and that we should focus first on transposing the main tutorials.

Also, a naming scheme needs to be planned. I suppose <Language>_<Title> would work. ex. Turing_Arrays or Ruby_Inject.

Author:  Tony [ Tue Dec 13, 2005 1:46 pm ]
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We should also probably link back to the forums for tutorial discussion. Asking about any omitted details and such. Hmm... this is getting to be complicated.

Dan has been mentioning some entirely separate system for holding tutorials and articles in V3, so we better wait for him to let us know what's happening.

Author:  Amailer [ Tue Dec 13, 2005 3:29 pm ]
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For the mean while, can't you just link the wiki article to your tutorials on the forums? Say for the most up-to-date version visit the link above or something.

Author:  [Gandalf] [ Tue Dec 13, 2005 3:56 pm ]
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Yeah, but the point is that anyone be able to add/edit the tutorial, which isn't available in the forum. It seems like a good idea, I'm just not sure how it will be done.

Author:  md [ Thu Dec 15, 2005 2:01 pm ]
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I moved some C/C++ tutorials over... comments?

Author:  md [ Thu Dec 22, 2005 4:49 pm ]
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Well... no one has said anything... so I'll assume that the ported tutorials are good... now I suppose I'll just have to move some more over now that I have free time during x-mas; perhaps someone else would like to move some too?


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