The new classicamiga wiki is currently still developing and the initial setup should be finished this week.
Use this topic to discuss the Wiki. Ideas you might all have for its content and how it can be utilised.
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The new classicamiga wiki is currently still developing and the initial setup should be finished this week.
Use this topic to discuss the Wiki. Ideas you might all have for its content and how it can be utilised.
Today I've been starting to expand and pad out the Wiki. Already I've managed to make it much more of a site. Most of the key sections I could think of are now in place, and I've begun work on many of the key pages for each section. We can then begin expanding these pages and adding further pages within each section.
I've also ported over the articles from the existing FAQs and Tutorials section on the main site, as well as linking PG's demo scene articles. Already this has made a big difference.
In addition I've also already worked on some other pages, including Amiga Hardware, Demoscene and DemoScene links pages, Common Questions and a few others.
I see that the whole thing takes shape :thumbs:
As we've had a few questions about resurrecting Amigas just out of storage maybe an article on what to do when you bring you have problems after you've just gotten your Amiga out for the first time in years.
Like a check list of things to go through when connecting it up and switching it on for the first time? Sounds like a good idea.
The great thing about the whole Wiki structure is that we can all be involved in starting pages on the wiki, and then others can add to and evolve the pages with extra content, or add pages from existing pages for other content.
I'm quite excited about the Wiki as it simplifies the process of adding so many additional areas of classicamiga that I've had on my wish list for the site for quite some time. :0
Also perhaps common problems and solutions such as battery leakage on big box Amigas, Disk drive cleaning etc.
One of the sections on the wiki is called common FAQs and I thought we could utilise this like a quick find index page for articles from other areas of the wiki. For example we could have a common hardware issues section on that page, and link to articles written in the hardware section. To kind of pick out the most commonly looked for solutions to problems.
When wiki starts to grow up, how it's gone be against mainsite?
Mainsite has a Hardware section, does not have many articles yet, but does it make sence to have duplicated information?
What kind of information should we have in mainsite and Wiki?
We now have the firsts articles about hardware, i will create some more about 1200/600 projects, so it will start to grow, so, should we have the same articles? Do we finnish the hardware section in main site? Or we just stay with the major hardware info in main site?
Due to several changes in Websense at work I cannot reach the Wiki site anymore :mad:
There won't be any duplicate information on the mainsite. My idea now is to utilise the main site's directory structure and concentrate on the 4 directories we now have in place on there (hardware directory coming soon). The hardware directory is going to be a database just like the other sections, holding details about all hardware released for the Amiga. In contrast the hardware section on the Wiki will contain the details about each Amiga model released, plus pages examining specifics of hardware such as how to install an HD, accelerators etc...Quote:
Originally Posted by Tiago
The current hardware holding page on the main site will be altered to contain directed links to the various related sections on the Wiki once the Wiki pages are complete.
The basic idea is that the main site and Wiki will compliment each other. The Wiki will contain factual information and detailed articles about the Amiga, and the main site will contain the extensive directories about everything released for the Amiga. This will hopefully simplify the content being covered on the two parts of classicamiga.
Obviously the main site will also still be used to post news items.
I also think that articles about the demo scene would be better on the Wiki, with a link to them from the main site's demo scene directory section.
Harrison is there any banner of Wiki that i can put in my website?
Or do you prefer to wait a few more time till we get more information on it?
I allready have the A1200 project in wiki created, i think i will put even more info in it.
as soon as you can, create please the "CD-ROM to RCAs" i have the text prepared, and some images to put there, and will have a [[]] from the a1200t project.
There isn't a banner for the Wiki yet. I will create one when I get time.
And yes, you can link to the wiki. I'm just now formally announcing the Wiki yet on the main site until we have some more content finished.
I will also start those other pages for you tonight.
:dry:
I don't see any activity in Wiki.... i post some projects/articles some time ago, but now it doesn't have any new stuff for a long time.
I am sure you all have projects to put here, come on, take some pictures, write some articles, lets improve it.
I've not had much spare time to work on the Wiki content myself. Hopefully I will get more time very soon. And I still hope more people will take part.
I'd kind of forgotton about the Wiki
:sorry:
I'll try to take part as well in the near future. Currently I'm a bit busy working on some Amiga demo related projects, but once these are finished, I'll try to contribute. :)
What happend to wiki?
http://wiki.classicamiga.com/
i can't see it anymore.
I went there to see the link to the DIY projects because of the black 1200, it would be cool to have that one on wiki, but it's offline?
It should still be there. I've not changed anything and it was up a couple of days ago when I accessed it. I will look into this when I get home tonight.
I've checked the Wiki and the whole file structure and database are still up and running. It looks like something has happened with the server configuration that allows something called Mod_Rewrite to allow the wiki to use short urls such as /main_page.
The site will still work at the moment using the full wiki url addresses. For the main wiki page you would need to use http://wiki.classicamiga.com/index.php?title=Main_Page at the moment to make it load.
And all links on the wiki will be broken if you click them. To load them you will need to use http://wiki.classicamiga.com/index.php?title= and add the name of the page copied from the link at the end.
I hope to find what has changed on the server and get the mod_rewrite functionality back up and working this evening.
I went to wiki to update a link to my page. I notice then when you open a link to an external link the page stays inside the wiki format.
Example: in DIY - Micronik Infinitiv A1200 Tower Case Project when i click Reference - Amiga 1200 Tower Project; Website it jumps to my site, but it stays inside wiki frame...
in my case, my site is not large, so it does not affect anything, but would it be better to jump to a new window?
That will only happen if you visit the wiki via www.classicamiga.com as it opens the wiki into an iframe within the main site. If you go to http://wiki.classicamiga.com it won't do that and any links will open in a new window or tab in your browser.
BTW, we really need to get back into working on the wiki at some point soon. I've not touched it much in a long time. I did do a bot of work on some of the pages recently, but not too much. There is loads to do on the site and add. As soon as I get time I will begin again on adding content. I also want to develop the front page of it a lot to make it more friendly, and create a more contained look with content boxes showing links to each area, rather than just the current list.