Spark Logic

New wiki

RogerClark Sat May 07, 2016 6:23 am

Hi Guys

I’m in the process of setting up a wiki where we can store the wealth of information that has been posted to the forum, in a more logical and easy to find way.

If anyone can spare some time to help populate the wiki, please let me know.

It will use Mediawiki, which is the same as Wikipedia uses, as its the most stable and versatile wiki system that I know of, and I have used it before.

Top of the To Do list, is to get a list of boards into the wiki, including photos and were possible schematic.

There is a load of text in the Github wiki that I can pull into this wiki, and I can probably “borrow” some information from the old leaflabs wiki.
(Note, I’ve emailed leaflabs, several days ago, to ask if its possible to mirror their wiki page(s), but I’ve not had a response )

BTW. I don’t think I can pull your existing login information into the user database for media wiki, but I may be able to batch create new accounts and use your email addresses as the initial passwords.
However as I suspect that most people will not have the time to help with this, I will probably end up creating accounts manually.

Replies

racemaniac Sat May 07, 2016 7:11 am

Oooh, i’d love to help XD.

RogerClark Sat May 07, 2016 7:35 am

racemaniac wrote:Oooh, i’d love to help XD.

racemaniac Sat May 07, 2016 10:09 am

RogerClark wrote:racemaniac wrote:Oooh, i’d love to help XD.

RogerClark Sat May 07, 2016 10:33 am

@racemanic

Its cool.

Do whatever you feel works best, we can always make new pages later and copy the content across, and orphan (or possibly delete the old pages)

I’m just adding some info to the Blue and Red pill boards etc.

racemaniac Sat May 07, 2016 11:35 am

Btw, if people have suggestions of what should be documented on the wiki, feel free to post suggestions :)
Such a big blank sheet is intimidating XD

Ah, and another question: Do we try to link as much as possible to the forum, or do we try to duplicate the info of the forum on the wiki?

You’ve made a page for all the libraries. Will it just become an index with links to the forum?

RogerClark Sat May 07, 2016 12:19 pm

Re: Libraries

I suspect its better to put the headlines in the wiki and perhaps link to the forum if there is a lot of detail.

Not sure about the other content, i.e whether to link or duplicate

BTW.
I enabled uploads, so images can be inserted

ahull Sat May 07, 2016 1:55 pm

Looks good.

BTW when I try to log in, the wiki claims there is no user named ahull, :( Should I use my full name, or has my account not been created?

racemaniac Sat May 07, 2016 3:25 pm

ahull wrote:Looks good.

BTW when I try to log in, the wiki claims there is no user named ahull, :( Should I use my full name, or has my account not been created?

RogerClark Sat May 07, 2016 8:47 pm

ahull wrote:Looks good.

BTW when I try to log in, the wiki claims there is no user named ahull, :( Should I use my full name, or has my account not been created?

ahull Sat May 07, 2016 8:56 pm

Looking good so far, I suggest for the boards pages, we try to adopt a broadly similar structure for each board, with image at the top, schematics where available, in roughly the same area of the page and so forth. Perhaps a page template and instruction for adding new boards may be a good way to ensure this.

Something like the camera details pages on the CHDK wiki for example.

RogerClark Sat May 07, 2016 9:14 pm

Andy,

Sounds good to me

@racemaniac did start to apply some standardisation, but we will need to evolve the standard as we work out the best way to do this.

Another challenge I can see is for boards that don’t have names, e.g there are loads of larger STM32F103R series boards, as well as V and Z series.

Re: Libraries

I think @racemaniac is using the built in Category system, but the side effect appears to be that Working libraries appear last.

I think where possible we should be positive and show what works first ;-)

racemaniac Sat May 07, 2016 9:23 pm

RogerClark wrote:Andy,

Sounds good to me

@racemaniac did start to apply some standardisation, but we will need to evolve the standard as we work out the best way to do this.

Another challenge I can see is for boards that don’t have names, e.g there are loads of larger STM32F103R series boards, as well as V and Z series.

Re: Libraries

I think @racemaniac is using the built in Category system, but the side effect appears to be that Working libraries appear last.

I think where possible we should be positive and show what works first ;-)

RogerClark Sat May 07, 2016 10:46 pm

@racemania

No worries

I’m going to focus on getting pages for as many boards added to the Wiki as possible, with some basic details and hopefully some of the other forum members can add more detail if they have that specific board. e.g. I know @madias has the Nucleo F103RB (but no longer uses it as its a pain to use)

RogerClark Sat May 07, 2016 10:59 pm

Upload file types

Guys. Can you give me a list of what file types need to be uploadable to the wiki?

i.e I just tried to upload a pdf of a schematic and it was not allowed, so I’ve just added pdf, sch and brd to the list.

I’m sure there will be more types that we need, but I’m not sure what they are.

So if you come across a new file type you need to upload, post here of PM me, as I need to manually add it to the PHP settings file (i.e there isnt even an Admin UI for this in Media Wiki)

RogerClark Sat May 07, 2016 11:55 pm

I’m going to manually add accounts for the top 20 posters.

To login, use your normal username and request a password reset, (As I’m setting random passwords when the password is created)

strawberrymaker Sun May 08, 2016 12:01 am

Ok, wasnt here for a while (school and stuff). That explains the sudden email i got :D

~Straw

WereCatf Sun May 08, 2016 12:05 am

RogerClark wrote:I’m going to manually add accounts for the top 20 posters.

To login, use your normal username and request a password reset, (As I’m setting random passwords when the password is created)

RogerClark Sun May 08, 2016 12:08 am

(LOL)

Sorry guys, I wasnt aware that MediaWiki would send out emails when I created an account and specified a password.

I know it sends an email if I select that a random password should be used, and that the user must change the password by following the link, but there was no mention of the email, if I specified a password.
I assumed the accounts would just be dormant and that people could reset the password if they wanted to update the wiki.

Good job I didnt do the whole forum ;-)

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