Talk:Wanted Pages
the only problem being, some people will add these pages but not know to edit this page... Theres already some of this going on.--Steveadeff 03:48, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
what would be really cool is if each volunteer took a particular topic and a particular source and trawled through it and added stuff to the wiki; get it into a good enough shape and then submitted it to Isaac for inclusion in the docs.
An example would be going through the mailing list and gathering all info about tv-out and gathering it into one coherent whole. Another example might be suitable cases to use when building a machine which has to go beside a tv. --Simon Kenyon simon-at-koala.ie
- I think the theory is this wiki would become the advanced documentation. Since the official documentation gets distributed as part of the MythTV source keeping it as small as need be would be best.--Steveadeff 19:32, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
- My long term goal is to merge RK's original FAQ into the wiki. I can't do that, though, until I can extract the appropriate parts of the wiki back into a flat-file to include with the distribution. I hope to do that with a reasonable smart robot, possibly based on pywikipediabot, but it's still in the planning stage. It is useful, certainly, to glean questions and answers from the list, and post them, but Beirdo is already doing something like that on his wiki for questions asked on IRC; perhaps that's the best place to put that for now.
--Baylink 04:43, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
- My long term goal is to merge RK's original FAQ into the wiki. I can't do that, though, until I can extract the appropriate parts of the wiki back into a flat-file to include with the distribution. I hope to do that with a reasonable smart robot, possibly based on pywikipediabot, but it's still in the planning stage. It is useful, certainly, to glean questions and answers from the list, and post them, but Beirdo is already doing something like that on his wiki for questions asked on IRC; perhaps that's the best place to put that for now.
One good mechanism is to create one or more articles with links to these non-written articles. They will be red, then show up under Special:Wantedpages. That helps us dodge maintenance of an article "wishlist", which will be out-of-date 5-minutes after you update it. --Gregturn 04:35, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
- By all means; I agitated for MediaWiki precisely because it provides this sort of tools; let's use them as much as we can.
--Baylink 04:43, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
