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Thanks for the corrections, Mike, I hadn't realized you fixed the 0/50
thing. That needs to be updated elsewhere too, I'll track it down. I
"roughed in" more of the plug-in section as well.
Coming soon, a very cool old interview with SSC found by user Kim Webster un
an Australian audio mag - lots of interesting historical perspective.
- Kerry
On 4/12/08 6:00 PM, in article 48015b30$1@linux, "Mike Audet" <mike@..>
wrote:
>
> Hi Kerry,
>
> Thanks so much for doing this. I made a few minor changes to the wiki this
> afternoon. I'll do more as I can.
>
> You rock!
>
> Mike
>
>
> Kerry Galloway <kg@kerrygalloway.com> wrote:
>> Greetings all!
>>
>> Technology sure changes fast. A piece of technology became available to
> me a
>> while back that finally allowed me to build what I used to just dream about.
>>
>> Namely - there is now a PARISWiki where PARIS aficionados can compile all
>> existing data concerning PARIS. I've started the ball rolling by beginning
>> the process of converting and compiling the varied and valuable information
>> found amongst the various official and unofficial FAQs.
>>
>> You might want to read the rest of the email before you click, but the site
>> is linked at the bottom if you're not a "manuals" type.
>>
>> For those unfamiliar with the term - a "Wiki" is a collaborative,
>> community-driven encyclopedia. You don't complain to someone when you spot
>> something wrong or incomplete or missing - you *fix it yourself*. To do
> this
>> is trivially easy - once you're registered and logged in, double-click
>> directly on the page you're reading and an editor opens. You can begin
>> entering/editing text right there. If you want to create a new page, you
>> just type a "CamelCase" word as you're editing (any word with an initial
> cap
>> and another capital within it, like AppMessage) and when you "store" the
>> page the cunning macros behind the Wiki turn it into a hyperlink with dashes
>> under it. Click on this and a new page with that name is created and saved
>> (before you do that, you might want to look at the page index to make sure
>> you aren't creating a duplicate). Yeah - you read that right - essentially
>> creating a hyperlink to a non-existing page, and then clicking on it,
>> actually creates the page.
>>
>> Now some important info.
>>
>> This site is *free*. By *free*, I mean - I am donating the time to build
> and
>> maintain it; donating the bandwidth and server space to serve it; there
> are
>> no "gotchas", no "enter your credit card", no "donate" buttuns and no ads;
> I
>> will never sell, trade, share or knowingly make your email addresses
>> available to others. In short, this is a "labour of love". Unless the
>> bandwidth goes absolutely insane, I can't see ever needing to "pass the
> hat"
>> for donations; if that ever happened (I doubt it, I have up to three
>> terabytes of bandwidth on the account it's served on) I'd talk it through
>> with the community before doing that in case someone in the community simply
>> wanted to serve it elsewhere. Failing those sort of unforeseen and unlikely
>> circumstances, I am happy to continue serving this for at least the next
>> eighteen months. If things go well, I have no problem keeping it going for
>> as long after that as I can foresee (ask me if you want to mirror it
>> elsewhere - assuming you don't want to mirror it on some white supremacist
>> hate site I'll almost certainly say yes, but let's make it a real mirror
> and
>> not a copy so multiple sites don't develop different content).
>>
>> What I *would* ask for in return, however is participation. If I wanted
> my
>> own Private PARIS Manual, I could have done it on my own hard drive easily
>> without the hassle of maintaining it on a site. This Wiki is meant to be
> a
>> community service - and it is also intended to be nearly entirely
>> community-driven. As long as the community continues to participate, not
>> merely by reading but by *contributing information*, I'll continue to do
> my
>> part by running the back office. I hope that seems fair.
>>
>> Aside from that, the conditions of use are largely common sense (I think
>> everyone's smart enough not to kill it instantly by posting illegal or
>> offensive material; arguments stay offsite; let's keep it focused; etc)
> and
>> are printed on the front page. Registration is automatic (ie open to any
>> PARIS user, past or present, no matter how casual a user) and takes all
> of
>> about thirty seconds.
>>
>> A further note on registration - it's open for all. The technology exists
> to
>> take it private, to require admin approval for who registers, etc etc; it
>> can be made very secure. However I'd like to start by assuming "if I need
> to
>> secure it, I'll secure it, but until then, welcome one and all!". So
>> registration is automatic, nobody "approves it".
>>
>> Plans for this Wiki are fairly ambitious, but I'd hope realistic and
>> sustainable. For example - amongst other developments, Aaron Allen and Chuck
>> Duffy have graciously given their consent for the Wiki to serve the Brian
>> Tankersley video, which (pending confirmation from BT), I'd like to see
>> broken into chapters and inserted in the relevant topics. I'd do this
>> pretty much ASAP pending hearing back from BT (anyone got a current contact
>> email, shoot it to me privately).
>>
>> In addition, it's "skinnable" so the plain vanilla interface will go away
> at
>> some point (when I get time) and be replaced by a slicker custom "look".
> I
>> will be investigating the ins-and-outs of posting whole sections from the
>> actual manual inline so they can be woven in with practical observations.
>> The technologies behind this thing are incredible; there are so many things
>> you can do with this data once you've got it entered, it's amazing. Sortable
>> plugin databases so you can find all compressors or all delays and choose
>> one by feature or applicability (hey, don't laugh; you may not think you
>> need this now, but look at how fast Mike Audet is developing new ones now
>> he's hitting his stride!); key commands databased so you can pull up all
> the
>> editing modifiers in a hurry - I have hopes that as this grows it can become
>> a "leave open in the background" quick reference/help file. It's also going
>> to be a place to collect some of the history and "back-story" of the
>> platform, its developers and designers.
>>
>> I want to take a second here and express my gratitude to some particular
>> people for their support, enthusiasm and cooperation in advance of rollout;
>> Aaron Allen, Chuck Duffy, "Hiddensounds" Kim, Steve "artguy", Mike Arnao
> and
>> Mike Audet.
>>
>> For their invaluable work as PARIS' "de facto" maintainers of the Archives,
>> Steve "artguy" (whose last name I now commit to spelling correctly), John
>> Bercik and Doug Wellington - and Kim for hist maintenance of the NG,
>> essentially the "collective memory" of the community - and last but not
>> least those many whose contributed insights form the backbone of the Wiki.
>>
>> An extremely quick tutorial is available linked to the front page, followed
>> by detailed documentation afterwards. You aren't going to believe how easy
> -
>> and even fun - it is when you get the hang of it. But there's a test area
>> called the SandBox where you can mess around without hurting anything.
>>
>> Okidoki. More to come, but I'll shut up now. Kim's kindly made the
>> "theproject" NG available for Wiki business, so if you want to talk
>> technical specifics, ie formatting, skins, concept, data organization,
>> that'd be a great place to keep it grouped and threaded together.
>>
>>
>> <<<<<
>>
>>
>> And now, the Wiki. I hope you enjoy it. (watch out for bad line wraps in
> the
>> URLs)
>>
>> Home page -
>>
>> http://www.kerrygalloway.com/WikiPARIS/wikka.php?wakka=HomeP age
>>
>> Some pages are more fleshed in than others:
>>
>> http://www.kerrygalloway.com/WikiPARIS/wikka.php?wakka=BugsT roubleshooting
>>
>> http://www.kerrygalloway.com/WikiPARIS/wikka.php?wakka=Sessi onTracking
>>
>>
>> Some are "getting there":
>>
>> http://www.kerrygalloway.com/WikiPARIS/wikka.php?wakka=Windo wPatchBay
>>
>> http://www.kerrygalloway.com/WikiPARIS/wikka.php?wakka=Acces sWin
>>
>> http://www.kerrygalloway.com/WikiPARIS/wikka.php?wakka=Paris NoNos
>>
>>
>> Sample plugin page:
>>
>> http://www.kerrygalloway.com/WikiPARIS/wikka.php?wakka=NoLim it
>>
>>
>> And remember - if you see bad info there, or something missing - don't
>> complain, log in and fix it! If I missed your contribution - sorry! Log
> in
>> and fix it! If I... well, you get the picture.
>>
>> Welcome, and enjoy.
>>
>> - Kerry
>>
>>
>>
>
"... being bitter is like swallowing poison and waiting for the other guy to die..." - anon
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