Michael Aivaliotis Posted March 17, 2007 Report Share Posted March 17, 2007 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. http://wiki.lavag.org 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! Quote Link to comment
Yair Posted March 17, 2007 Report Share Posted March 17, 2007 :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: Quote Link to comment
Tomi Maila Posted March 17, 2007 Report Share Posted March 17, 2007 This is cool! :thumbup: Quote Link to comment
Michael Aivaliotis Posted March 17, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 17, 2007 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? Quote Link to comment
Jim Kring Posted March 17, 2007 Report Share Posted March 17, 2007 QUOTE(Michael_Aivaliotis @ Mar 16 2007, 11:30 AM) 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? 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: http://openg.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=GOOP http://openg.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=...attias+Ericsson http://openg.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=...figFileSettings Quote Link to comment
Mike Ashe Posted March 17, 2007 Report Share Posted March 17, 2007 QUOTE(Jim Kring @ Mar 16 2007, 01:51 PM) There is a lot of content on the old OpenG TikiWiki, which is more fitting for LAVA. It would be nice to see some of the documentation section on OpenG TikiWiki transfered as well, such as:http://openg.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=LvDocMenuLaunchVIs' target="_blank">How to do Menu Launch VIs as just one example. Bye the way, Bravo Michael!!! :beer: :beer: :beer: Quote Link to comment
Michael Aivaliotis Posted March 18, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 18, 2007 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) It would be nice to see some of the documentation section on OpenG TikiWiki transfered as well, such as: How to do Menu Launch VIs Yes, definitely! Let's bring life back to that content. Quote Link to comment
PJM_labview Posted March 18, 2007 Report Share Posted March 18, 2007 Well, lets get the ball rolling: How to do Menu Launch VIs GOOP - Graphical Object Oriented Programming PJM Quote Link to comment
Yair Posted March 18, 2007 Report Share Posted March 18, 2007 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. Quote Link to comment
Michael Aivaliotis Posted March 18, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 18, 2007 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 Link to comment
Michael Aivaliotis Posted March 19, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 19, 2007 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 Link to comment
Michael Aivaliotis Posted March 19, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 19, 2007 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: http://forums.lavag.org/index.php?act=attach&type=post&id=5225 This is also available form the "insert special item" menu: http://forums.lavag.org/index.php?act=attach&type=post&id=5224 Also, as a bonus! If you create a forum post that contains words that exist as LAVA Wiki pages, the system will automatically linkify the words to the Wiki pages. For example: I love [wiki]LabVIEW[/wiki] and I also like using [wiki]State Machines[/wiki] very much. Quote Link to comment
crelf Posted March 19, 2007 Report Share Posted March 19, 2007 QUOTE(Michael_Aivaliotis @ Mar 18 2007, 06:25 PM) ...the system will automatically linkify the words to the Wiki pages. That's hopefully going to cut down on the n00b forum replies :thumbup: LabVIEW LabVIEW Doesn't seem to work for me... Quote Link to comment
Jim Kring Posted March 19, 2007 Report Share Posted March 19, 2007 I tried to edit the [wiki]OpenG[/wiki] page and it said "This page has been locked to prevent editing." I could not edit the page, so... how when/how does this happen? how do I find out who has the lock? how do we unlock a page? Sorry in advance for not just reading the FAQ Quote Link to comment
Michael Aivaliotis Posted March 19, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 19, 2007 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) I tried to edit the [wiki]OpenG[/wiki] page and it said "This page has been locked to prevent editing." I could not edit the page, so... how when/how does this happen? how do I find out who has the lock? how do we unlock a page? Sorry in advance for not just reading the FAQ 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. Quote Link to comment
Jim Kring Posted March 19, 2007 Report Share Posted March 19, 2007 QUOTE(Michael_Aivaliotis @ Mar 18 2007, 12:14 PM) You need a space before and after the word. That seems like a bug to me, but it's really only a corner case that probably won't affect us 99.9% of the time. Quote Link to comment
Michael Aivaliotis Posted March 19, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 19, 2007 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 Link to comment
Yair Posted March 19, 2007 Report Share Posted March 19, 2007 QUOTE(Michael_Aivaliotis @ Mar 18 2007, 12:01 AM) What do you want to be notified of? Changes or new docs? 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? Quote Link to comment
PJM_labview Posted March 19, 2007 Report Share Posted March 19, 2007 QUOTE(Michael_Aivaliotis @ Mar 18 2007, 12:24 PM) 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.Works fine for me too, no lock.PJM Quote Link to comment
Jim Kring Posted March 19, 2007 Report Share Posted March 19, 2007 QUOTE(Michael_Aivaliotis @ Mar 18 2007, 12:24 PM) 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. I just tested again. Here are some interesting results... At first, I could not edit any wiki pages. Then, after logging out and the logging in again, I could edit any wiki page. Problem solved, thanks. Quote Link to comment
Michael Aivaliotis Posted March 19, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 19, 2007 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.http://forums.lavag.org/index.php?act=attach&type=post&id=5229''>http://forums.lavag.org/index.php?act=attach&type=post&id=5229'>http://forums.lavag.org/index.php?act=attach&type=post&id=5229 Quote Link to comment
Jim Kring Posted March 19, 2007 Report Share Posted March 19, 2007 QUOTE(Michael_Aivaliotis @ Mar 18 2007, 12:42 PM) I don't know of how to get notified for any new pages. If you find out, let us know. Notification of every page edit is a feature that doesn't scale well. For example, can you imagine receiving an email for every page edit on Wikipedia? You would get emails faster than you could read them. 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. Quote Link to comment
Yair Posted March 19, 2007 Report Share Posted March 19, 2007 QUOTE(Michael_Aivaliotis @ Mar 18 2007, 09:42 PM) There is a chekbox to send you email. That would explain it. I looked at the watchlist section instead of the user profile section. Thanks. Now I just need to see whether this applies to all subtopics as well. Quote Link to comment
crelf Posted March 19, 2007 Report Share Posted March 19, 2007 QUOTE(Michael_Aivaliotis @ Mar 19 2007, 05:14 AM) You need a space before and after the word. Check out [wiki]LabVIEW[/wiki] - it rocks! That did the trick :thumbup: Quote Link to comment
Jeff Plotzke Posted March 20, 2007 Report Share Posted March 20, 2007 QUOTE(crelf @ Mar 18 2007, 06:38 PM) Check out [wiki]LabVIEW[/wiki] - it rocks!That did the trick :thumbup: I think I need to add wiki articles for the words 'a' and 'the' -- Articles would have a ton of links! Quote Link to comment
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