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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: kode on November 12, 2003, 02:13:58 pm

Title: teh Wiki
Post by: kode on November 12, 2003, 02:13:58 pm

not sure if there's already a thread on this, but if not (and anyway):
I can't sign in, and I'm a little reluctant to actually add stuff that I might know (even if it's very little) if it means I have to give out my IP all the time. I saw those other guys had their usernames, but when I try to sign in, it says something about bad password. how do
I go about making meself a signin?

Title: teh Wiki
Post by: kv1at3485 on November 12, 2003, 02:15:23 pm

I don't think you need to sign in.  Just press EDIT and do your thing! :yes:

Title: teh Wiki
Post by: kode on November 12, 2003, 02:31:28 pm

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Originally posted by kv1at3485
I don't think you need to sign in.  Just press EDIT and do your thing! :yes:

yeah, but that reveals my IP adress everytime.

just use your eyes and try to grasp what I wrote in the first post, pal.

Title: teh Wiki
Post by: kv1at3485 on November 12, 2003, 03:54:41 pm

OK, see if this helps...

You need to sign in using some sort of WikiWord.

This page has some information concerning the formation of a valid WikiWord... http://www.virtualmock.org/wiki/index.php/SigningIn

So, make a valid WikiWord and use that to sign in.  I guess 'SignIn' is a valid WikiWord.

Title: teh Wiki
Post by: kode on November 12, 2003, 04:33:50 pm

ahh... I see. the burdens of a man with a nick in non-caps...

Title: teh Wiki
Post by: Sandwich on November 12, 2003, 04:38:29 pm

Meh - I was able to sign in just using "Sandwich".

Title: teh Wiki
Post by: kode on November 12, 2003, 04:41:02 pm

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Originally posted by Sandwich
Meh - I was able to sign in just using "Sandwich".

yeah, but your nick starts with a capital letter. could be why.

edit: I'm tired, it seems.

Title: teh Wiki
Post by: Goober5000 on November 12, 2003, 04:46:28 pm

I wasn't able to sign in with either Goober5000 or Goober. :confused:

Title: teh Wiki
Post by: Sandwich on November 12, 2003, 04:47:19 pm

Also, you guys know that you can make test pages until you're sore in the fingers in the SandBox (http://dynamic4.gamespy.com/~freespace/fsdoc/index.php/SandBox). ;)

Title: teh Wiki
Post by: kode on November 12, 2003, 04:48:24 pm

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Originally posted by Sandwich
Also, you guys know that you can make test pages until you're sore in the fingers in the SandBox (http://dynamic4.gamespy.com/~freespace/fsdoc/index.php/SandBox). ;)

yeah, but I couldn't try hierarchic pages in the sandbox, could I? There was reason behind my testing, you know.

Title: teh Wiki
Post by: Knight Templar on November 12, 2003, 04:58:02 pm

wiki? :wtf:

Are we talking of the frontapge?

Title: teh Wiki
Post by: Woolie Wool on November 12, 2003, 05:16:41 pm

I added stuff to the species and ships pages. This thing is as buggy as hell.

Title: teh Wiki
Post by: Shrike on November 12, 2003, 05:22:56 pm

I'd just use the forum myself.  Going to Wiki is IMO needlessly complicated.

Title: teh Wiki
Post by: Taristin on November 12, 2003, 07:51:59 pm

Works for me, whatever the hell it is...

Title: teh Wiki
Post by: Setekh on November 13, 2003, 03:57:21 am

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Originally posted by Woolie Wool
I added stuff to the species and ships pages. This thing is as buggy as hell.

What problems are you experiencing?

Title: teh Wiki
Post by: Sandwich on November 13, 2003, 06:52:51 am

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Originally posted by Woolie Wool
I added stuff to the species and ships pages. This thing is as buggy as hell.

I see what you mean. What did you try to do?

KT: See the announcement.

Title: teh Wiki
Post by: Sandwich on November 13, 2003, 07:07:05 am

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Originally posted by Sandwich


I see what you mean. What did you try to do?

KT: See the announcement.

Gah, I completely forgot that I was messing with something last night, trying to allow usernames like Goober5000. The problem is fixed now. Sorry guys. :p

Title: teh Wiki
Post by: kasperl on November 13, 2003, 12:10:22 pm

two things:

how do you register?
put up a sticky, i always, always miss anouncements. or pop up a box or something.

Title: teh Wiki
Post by: Woolie Wool on November 13, 2003, 05:45:25 pm

Could you enable the strikeout tag in the Wiki?

The strikeout tag does this

Title: teh Wiki
Post by: kode on November 13, 2003, 05:53:34 pm

just comment it out like this


/* this is a comment */

or soemthign.

Title: teh Wiki
Post by: Stealth on November 13, 2003, 10:07:43 pm

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Originally posted by Knight Templar
wiki? :wtf:

Are we talking of the frontapge?

no we're talking about "Wiki", the new installment at HLP.  *see announcement*

it's pretty cool :)

Title: teh Wiki
Post by: Sandwich on November 14, 2003, 05:43:16 am

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Originally posted by kasperl
two things:

how do you register?
put up a sticky, i always, always miss anouncements. or pop up a box or something.

Registration is easy. Just come up with a username that matches a WikiWord (2 capitalized words combined, like KasPerl or SirKasperl or something - try to stick with something similar to your forum username, please), and sign-in with it. That should be it.

And the announcement was under my user, ginormous avatar and all, until certain people complained that it super-sized the page. Hmm, I think I'll give Announcements an avatar. :)

Title: teh Wiki
Post by: kasperl on November 14, 2003, 10:51:39 am

aha, so on first logging in, it registers. good.

Title: teh Wiki
Post by: Woolie Wool on November 14, 2003, 10:54:04 am

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Originally posted by kode
just comment it out like this


/* this is a comment */

or soemthign.

No, I need the strikeout tag for my Amun description to look right.

Title: teh Wiki
Post by: kasperl on November 14, 2003, 11:05:08 am

woolie, i just edited your list of FS1 ships, it was kinda messed up lay-out wise.

Title: teh Wiki
Post by: Woolie Wool on November 14, 2003, 11:12:39 am

Thanks.:yes:

Title: teh Wiki
Post by: karajorma on November 14, 2003, 12:30:35 pm

Okay. I've put a small(ish) chunk of my FREDding guide up. I'm not as happy with the way it looks as I am with HTML but it was fairly painless to make the changes (much easier than adding stuff to the HLP FAQ) so I'll probably be adding the whole thing if this thing gets past beta (i.e if everyone starts using it).

Title: teh Wiki
Post by: kode on November 14, 2003, 01:06:26 pm

well, I support it. too bad I don't have any knowledge :(

Title: teh Wiki
Post by: Anaz on November 14, 2003, 02:21:41 pm

This thing is weird...and the inability to use HTML is somewhat ghey IMO.

Title: teh Wiki
Post by: Kamikaze on November 14, 2003, 05:49:28 pm

There's this thing called security...

Title: teh Wiki
Post by: Sandwich on November 14, 2003, 06:26:09 pm

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Originally posted by karajorma
Okay. I've put a small(ish) chunk of my FREDding guide up. I'm not as happy with the way it looks as I am with HTML but it was fairly painless to make the changes (much easier than adding stuff to the HLP FAQ) so I'll probably be adding the whole thing if this thing gets past beta (i.e if everyone starts using it).

Thanks kara - and everyone else who's submitted content, rearranged stuff, whatever. You're making this work. :)

How will you be able to tell when "everyone" starts using it? ;)

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Originally posted by Anaz
This thing is weird...and the inability to use HTML is somewhat ghey IMO.

[q]From the Wiki quick-reference text:
Allowed HTML tags: b big i small tt em strong abbr acronym cite code dfn kbd samp var sup sub[/q]

Anything in particular you were looking for?

Title: teh Wiki
Post by: kode on November 14, 2003, 06:56:56 pm

hmm... I think we need a naming convention for "freespace" and "freespace 2".

If you write it like FreeSpace, it'll turn out like "Free Space"
If you write FreeSpace 2, it'll not parse the 2, so it'll be "Free Space"

however, if you write [Freespace], it'll be Freespace, and if you write [Freespace 2], it'll be "Freespace 2".

I say we go with the brackets thingies.

Title: teh Wiki
Post by: Anaz on November 14, 2003, 06:59:43 pm

well, I've figured enough out that I no longer need them. I was being retarded and not looking at the little wiki formatting guide

one HTML thing that would be nice however are anchors. I know we can make a separate page, but anchors are just nice sometimes.

Title: teh Wiki
Post by: Setekh on November 14, 2003, 07:51:53 pm

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Originally posted by kode
hmm... I think we need a naming convention for "freespace" and "freespace 2".

If you write it like FreeSpace, it'll turn out like "Free Space"
If you write FreeSpace 2, it'll not parse the 2, so it'll be "Free Space"

however, if you write [Freespace], it'll be Freespace, and if you write [Freespace 2], it'll be "Freespace 2".

I say we go with the brackets thingies.

That sounds like a good convention. Brackets it is.

Title: teh Wiki
Post by: Sandwich on November 15, 2003, 05:52:29 pm

Yes, brackets are good. Besides, "Freespace" never was capitalized in mid-word officially.... that I know of, at least. :nervous:

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Originally posted by Anaz
one HTML thing that would be nice however are anchors. I know we can make a separate page, but anchors are just nice sometimes.

:doubt:

[q]References: JoinCapitalizedWords or use square brackets for a [page link] or URL [http://cool.wiki.int/][/q]

What's wrong with the square brackets thing?

Title: teh Wiki
Post by: kode on November 15, 2003, 06:47:29 pm

nothing. I just think people should use it *cough*topace*cough*

Title: teh Wiki
Post by: Sandwich on November 15, 2003, 08:00:56 pm

Fixed the problem some people had with WikiWord usernames -  now the system allows both WikiWords and words that begin with a capital letter, have one or more lower-case letters, and end with (a) number(s) - such as Goober5000. :)

Title: teh Wiki
Post by: Setekh on November 16, 2003, 07:34:13 am

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Originally posted by Sandwich
Yes, brackets are good. Besides, "Freespace" never was capitalized in mid-word officially.... that I know of, at least. :nervous:

[q]From http://www.volition-inc.com/fs/features.cfm
Descent: FreeSpace - The Great War promises a detailed and dynamic universe, taking space combat sims to new levels of action and realism.[/q]

;)

Title: teh Wiki
Post by: kode on November 16, 2003, 09:50:08 am

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Originally posted by Setekh


[q]From http://www.volition-inc.com/fs/features.cfm
Descent: FreeSpace - The Great War promises a detailed and dynamic universe, taking space combat sims to new levels of action and realism.[/q]

;)

but it still wasn't two words.

Title: teh Wiki
Post by: Black Wolf on November 16, 2003, 10:24:45 pm

Filled in the mission chatter section. I'd also like to strongly suggest people keep a copy of their work on their HD. This looks like a very open system and, while I doubt any of our members would do it, it wouldn;t take much for some twelve year old EVandal to come on and delete everything we've done. Call me paranoid, but, well, yeah. Just call me paranoid.

Title: teh Wiki
Post by: Setekh on November 17, 2003, 01:53:42 am

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Originally posted by kode
but it still wasn't two words.

Yes, but it was capitalised mid-word. Which is the point. What are you talking about? :)

BW, I think there's a rollback system to enable the return from such mistakes, isn't there?

Title: teh Wiki
Post by: Black Wolf on November 17, 2003, 03:21:26 am

Err - I have no idea. It's possible I suppose...

Title: teh Wiki
Post by: Sandwich on November 17, 2003, 07:32:20 pm

Yes, there's a roll-back system, no worries there.

And Setekh.... you just couldn't resist, could you? :p