Michael Aivaliotis

QUOTE(Mike Ashe @ Mar 19 2007, 05:59 AM)

Oh wait, thats what edits are for.

Yes, please be bold and improve the articles where you see fit.

QUOTE(eaolson @ Mar 19 2007, 07:38 AM)

LabVIEW

OpenG

Jim Kring

Yes, there are three pages on Wikipedia. I think [wiki]LabVIEW[/wiki] deserves better than that. This is not Wikipedia, this is better. It's the ultimate collection of all [wiki]LabVIEW[/wiki] knowledge.

QUOTE(Aitor Solar @ Mar 19 2007, 02:59 AM)

Automatic wikification results in strange things when the wikified word already was inside a link. For example, try:

http://ni.com' target="_blank">The [wiki]NI[/wiki] page

The first part of the external link goes to ni.com, the "NI" goes to wiki and the end doesn't go anywhere. I would prefer links are not wikified. The same applies to codeboxes.

Saludos,

Aitor

Well, yes, I figured it would eventualy come to this. You can never please all the people all the time. I will turn off the automatic feature however you can still use the manual BBCODE when you need it.

Ok, there is a way at the moment to get RSS feeds of both changes and new pages. Using the Special:Recentchanges page and the Special:Newpages. These have an RSS link in your browser.

QUOTE(Jim Kring @ Mar 18 2007, 12:47 PM)

A better feature might be to set up a custom email notification when any page that had a title or content that matched some search string criteria was edited. That way, you could be notified of things that you care about.

This probably won't be implemented anytime soon.

QUOTE(yen @ Mar 18 2007, 12:51 PM)

There is no such thing as subtopic on a wiki. Articles and pages just exist. They are just linked to by other pages.

QUOTE(Jeff Plotzke @ Mar 18 2007, 04:01 PM)

Go ahead, those articles are good candidates for speedy deletion. That's my next task... guidlines.

QUOTE(Jim Kring @ Mar 18 2007, 04:20 PM)

There is no way to do this at the moment, but I will put it on my list of things to look into.

QUOTE(yen @ Mar 18 2007, 12:27 PM)

I guess both, but changes is probably something which would probably need the alerting option more.

In any case, I noticed the watch option, but didn't find a way of getting alerts for it. Is there one?

I don't know of how to get notified for any new pages. If you find out, let us know. You can watch pages for changes. Did you go into your preferences on the Wiki? There is a chekbox to send you email.

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Jim, I created a dummy account with the same rights as you and I was able to edit the [wiki]OpenG[/wiki] page on the Wiki. Also as far as the autowikify feature, you can always manualy wikify a word in the forums by manually adding the tags around it.

QUOTE(crelf @ Mar 18 2007, 06:47 AM)

That's hopefully going to cut down on the n00b forum replies :thumbup:

LabVIEW

LabVIEW

Doesn't seem to work for me...

You need a space before and after the word.

QUOTE(Jim Kring @ Mar 18 2007, 12:04 PM)

• how when/how does this happen?
  
  
• how do I find out who has the lock?
  
  
• how do we unlock a page?
  
  

All good questions however, it does not seem to be locked for me. Of course I have Admin rights but your group should have edit rights on that page too. This is strange. I wonder if the page gets locked when someone else is editing it? Not sure, I will look into it.

Some new features to let everyone know about.

I've added a special BBcode that you can use inside Forum posts to link to Wiki Articles:

This is also available form the "insert special item" menu:

I've Migrated the Knowledge Base Article over to the LAVA Wiki.

I've also added a Help Section in the Wiki to help guide new users on how to work with the wiki.

QUOTE(yen @ Mar 17 2007, 01:51 PM)

Is there any way to monitor changes to all the wikis (or even for individual ones)?

I noticed that there is a watchlist for the main page, but it is not clear whether this will monitor changes for all the wikis and whether there is any way to receive the notification in email or the new version in RSS.

What do you want to be notified of? Changes or new docs?

QUOTE(yen @ Mar 17 2007, 01:38 PM)

I thought you weren't supposed to reveal features available in beta releases,

We are not NI. .

Well, I want to add a closing comment that we now have a LabVIEW Wiki. XNodes content has already been added.

QUOTE(Jim Kring @ Mar 16 2007, 11:51 AM)

There is a lot of content on the old OpenG TikiWiki, which is more fitting for LAVA. Here are some links to just some of the content that might be transferred:

Great idea Jim. I'm getting even more excited now!

QUOTE(Mike Ashe @ Mar 16 2007, 02:18 PM)

Yes, definitely!

Let's bring life back to that content.

Some ideas for wiki content:

• History of LabVIEW
  
• History of GOOP
  
• Biography on Jeff K
  
• LIst of all LabVIEW addon's and toolkits
  
• Catalog of all LabVIEW ini settings.
  
• Tutorials and getting started FAQ's for LabVIEW on:
  • LVOOP
    
  • State Machines
    
  • XControls
    

  [*]Designing good User Interfaces

  [*]What is recursion and how to do it in LabVIEW

  [*]Compilation of all LabVIEW resources on the web.

Any other ideas?

I'm very very excited to announce that LAVA now officially has a full fledged, full featured, member editable Wiki. The engine for the wiki is powered by MediaWiki which is also used for driving Wikipedia content. This means it's very capable and powerful.

Many of you have been asking for the capability to create static content that is NOT a forum thread or topic. Now LAVA is providing this feature. The goal is to eventually phase out the problematic Knowledge Base, migrate the LabVIEW FAQ over and expand the content on the Wiki. Currently, Adam Rofer is helping add content related to XNodes documentation :thumbup: . Thank You Adam. This is just the beginning.

I have spent many long nights getting this up and running (and almost crashed the server in the process) in the hopes that it will be embraced by the community. Where this goes is dependent on you. I would really like to see this become truly the best LabVIEW resource destination for new and experienced users. I am personally committed to adding my own content on a regular basis.

Key Points (for now):

• You need to login to the wiki, however you can use the same login name and password as on LAVA. You can also have it remember your login.
  
• Creating and editing a wiki page is a little harder than creating a forum post due to the current lack of a wysiwyg editor. This may change in the future.
  
• If you are not comfortable editing wiki content I suggest you see here for some tutorials and guides used on Wikipedia.
  
• If you want to start a discussion thread on a specific wiki article then click on the button at the top or bottom of the article. This will create a LAVA forum discussion thread dedicated to that article which will be placed here. Empty discussion threads will be automatically removed so don't worry about it.
  
• You CAN use BBcode and smilies in the wiki article editing.
  
• I've created a few namespaces. If you need more, let me know what they are. For example XNodes: is one namespace.
  

I will be replying to this post with updates. Thank You all and HAVE FUN!

Speaking of Beer Robots. Needs to work on the foam reduction...

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Of course, why settle for less when you can go all the way. How much beer is this bot worth? Sheesh...

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<cite>QUOTE(Mike Ashe @ Mar 10 2007, 07:58 PM) </cite>

However, I like my beer neither shaken, nor stirred, so I am thinking about a small tribot to get the beer and gently deliver it to me.

This sounds like a job for: LEGO Mindstorms NXT!

It seems like it's already been done but it's not LEGO. Damn, I think we've just come up with the Ultimate LAVA Mindstorms Challenge.

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QUOTE(Ale914 @ Mar 13 2007, 10:38 AM)

Michael are you interested in Italian translation?

That's on my list...

Thanks everyone. I've added the changes. Also, if you see anything on the site in French that doesn't make sense and you can suggest a better translation then let me know in this thread.

Saw this on Saturday and I thought it was funny.

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How to open a vi within a vi

For a moment there i thought I was looking at an autostereogram.

QUOTE(orko @ Mar 11 2007, 09:53 PM)

The truth of the matter is that I haven't really had the time to fully explore the GOOP side of things yet.

How is it possible to program LabVIEW without LVOOP? You like running around with loaded handguns with the safety off?

Dialog tables are limited. You cannot change them. You will need to create your own. I did something like this for an MCL. Perhaps you can do this for a table too:

Alternating Row colors in Multicolumn Listbox

QUOTE(Aristos Queue @ Mar 10 2007, 08:16 PM)

EDIT: Even better... look at the VI Hierarchy window and note that there are no subVIs shown.

Yes, I am going to file a CAR about this...

Are you saying we shouldn't be allowed to have classes with pure white appearance of wire?