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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 07/04/2015 07:40 AM, Philip Brady
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<p class="MsoNormal">I have taken so much from this community
that I feel honour
bound to contribute so please include me.
I have been chipping away at API pages but it’s been slow
and it is a
bit of a moving target!</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">A few observations:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">1. We need a high
level link for budding authors on ‘how to generate a wiki
page’. I have generated a few pages but cannot for
the life of me remember how I did it.
Where is that page about sandboxes etc?</p>
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I have gathered a few useful links for myself. Look at my user page
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/User:Pgbennett">https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/User:Pgbennett</a> under "Quick Links". The
"Manual of style" page that I reference may be out of date, I plan
to review it, so don't take it as gospel. I have created a couple of
standard templates to use for indicating versions applicable to
pages or features. I have not yet added those to the Templates list.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">2. There are a large number of
interesting pages in the wiki
which are not accessible by following links.
The indexing depends upon category tags at the end of the
document but unfortunately
these do not get updated in the parent page unless that is
opened and re-saved. Permissions don’t always allow that.
I think it’s exacerbated by local caching or maybe
whether the author is logged in. He/she sees
the parent updated but nobody else does.
Can that be automated or documented? If there is there
a way of listing those and going through them (and also the
'wanted' pages) as a 'start from the bottom' approach?</p>
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Instructions for this are here<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Purge">https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Purge</a><br>
Unfortunately you have to purge each page affected, it is not very
friendly.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">3. What’s a good mechanism for authors
and developers to
communicate? A new group under <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://forum.mythtv.org/">https://forum.mythtv.org/</a>
perhaps? How do
developers communicate?</p>
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I have been emailing Paul directly.
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<p class="MsoNormal">4. I have often thought that some of the
pages describe a
lot of work done by some dedicated contributors and that
there is something
very valuable there. Unfortunately, it’s
often very difficult to work out what it does.
The commercial world I full of ‘it brings you happiness' but
does not say how and
Mythtv is sometimes the opposite – ‘here is the technical’
but no ‘what it does’. Sorting that may need considerable
tact!</p>
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I agree. There is a vast amount of technical detail in pages
contributed by many people. Unfortunately much of it is out of date.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">5. I’ve seen a few pages where I
recognise a shortcoming and/or
know that it’s wrong but don’t know how to improve it. Is
there a mechanism for asking the author of that page to
review it?</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">6. A bit of an
aside: I read these discussions on
Gossamer threads but respond via hotmail.
Matching the two is not always easy, especially if I have
had a hotmail
tidy-up. Is there a more intuitive interface?</p>
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I have a separate email address that I use for only the mythtv users
list. With Thunderbird you can easily view messages as threads.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Regards</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Phil</p>
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