Re: [piecepack] Re: Help requested with Piecepack Wiki cleanup effort

[Ron Hale-Evans <rwhe@...>]

For my part, you're welcome, and thank you, Roger.

If you're happy about the current state of the wiki, why not spread
the word that we're back on sites like BoardGameGeek?

Thanks again!

Ron

On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 4:05 AM, littlebrothertimmy
<littlebrothertimmy@...> wrote:
> Let me be the first one to thank everyone who has revitalised the wiki. It's really great that things are working again! I can only imagine all the (spare)time you've spent restoring all the pages. Work like this should not be taken for granted!!!
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> Once again: THANK YOU!
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> Roger
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> --- In piecepack@yahoogroups.com, Ron Hale-Evans <rwhe@...> wrote:
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>> If the ToyVault piecepack is going to be as big a deal for the
>> piecepack community as I predict it is, both Piecepack.org and the
>> Piecepack Wiki are going to receive a sudden influx of new visitors
>> relatively soon.
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>> http://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/474608/want-to-get-published-design-a-piecepack-game-for
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>> I can't do anything about the way-out-of-date status of Piecepack.org,
>> but I do maintain the Piecepack Wiki, and I'd like to enlist your help
>> to clean it up.
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>> http://ludism.org/ppwiki
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>> As you may know, Ludism.org, the server for the Piecepack Wiki,
>> suffered a hardware failure in May 2009, and it took a few weeks to
>> restore the Piecepack Wiki and various other services. All of the
>> information from the wiki was preserved, but it's now running on
>> different wiki software called OddMuse (the old software was
>> MoinMoin). This means that there are various small glitches because of
>> differences in the software's markup language. In particular, there
>> are many broken links.
>>
>> http://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/409478/ppwiki-rest-in-piece
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>> I would have to say that the other big problem is that the many custom
>> scripts written by Mark Biggar and friends, such as the ones that scan
>> the wiki and automatically list games by number of players and so on,
>> are also broken with the switch to the new software. It's possible to
>> write new scripts or rewrite the old ones (although I have neither the
>> time nor the expertise at the moment), but if no one can do that right
>> now, it would still be nice to clean up all the broken links and
>> broken tables left over from the scripts.
>>
>> Even bearing in mind that I "run" it (inasmuch as anyone ever runs a
>> wiki, which is not much), I still think the Piecepack Wiki is the best
>> place to find information about the piecepack right now, considering
>> Piecepack.org hasn't been touched in many years -- the front page
>> still reads "Page content last modified on: 10/19/2004", although I do
>> think it's been updated a little since then.
>>
>> If you agree, would you please help me clean it up? Don't be afraid.
>> Dig in. I have backups, if anyone gets into trouble. At least clean up
>> the pages about you and your own games! If everyone did that, we'd be
>> a long way toward making the wiki something to be proud of again when
>> all those new players suddenly get interested in our hobby.
>>
>> Comments, anyone?
>>
>> piecefully,
>>
>> Ron
>>
>> --
>> Ron Hale-Evans ... rwhe@... ... http://ron.ludism.org/ ... (206) 201-1768
>>     Mind Performance Hacks book: http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596101534/
>>  The proteiform graph itself is a polyhedron of scripture. (Finnegans
>> Wake 107:08)
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Ron Hale-Evans ... rwhe@... ... http://ron.ludism.org/ ... (206) 201-1768
    Mind Performance Hacks book: http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596101534/
 The proteiform graph itself is a polyhedron of scripture. (Finnegans
Wake 107:08)