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| ANNOUNCEMENT: the PARIS Wiki is born! [message #97922] |
Fri, 11 April 2008 14:33  |
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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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| Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: the PARIS Wiki is born! [message #97927 is a reply to message #97922] |
Sat, 12 April 2008 03:03  |
Don Nafe
Messages: 1206
Registered: July 2005
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Outstanding
double thumbs up!
"Kerry Galloway" <kg@kerrygalloway.com> wrote in message
news:C4252755.2C37%kg@kerrygalloway.com...
> 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
>
>
>
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| Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: the PARIS Wiki is born! [message #97929 is a reply to message #97922] |
Sat, 12 April 2008 03:18 |
Don Nafe
Messages: 1206
Registered: July 2005
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Senior Member |
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Another thought - as Mike's plugs have no presets maybe we can start
compiling presets by using snapshots of his plugs.
Again any thoughts
"Kerry Galloway" <kg@kerrygalloway.com> wrote in message
news:C4252755.2C37%kg@kerrygalloway.com...
> 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
>
>
>
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| Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: the PARIS Wiki is born! [message #97934 is a reply to message #97929] |
Sat, 12 April 2008 07:59 |
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Oh, absolutely - a preset initiative is very close to the top of the
priority list.
I have to hold off on that until I have a rig again, which is delayed
because the current owner is finishing a project on it first. But after that
I'm going to be examining the most efficient ways of doing exactly this -
maybe one of the old methods like creating a downloadable song that has
presets for all current plugs in it that can be copied into the master FX
library, although I'll check to see if there's something more elegant and
user-transparent that can be pulled off; maybe there's a multi-installer
that can be whipped up.
Some folks eschew presets - for myself, I find they're near-essential
starting places that can "kickstart" creativity, and the more complex and
parameter-loaded the plugin the more crucial a good set of presets as
"jumping off spots".
In the meantime, there's a thread on the PARISBlog where I'm trying to
collect presets in text form. Look for the tag "PEPI" or PARIS Effects
Presets Initiative.
http://ensoniqparis.blogspot.com/2008/03/pepi-paris-effects- presets-initiati
ve.html
Thanks for the kind words, Don!
- Kerry
On 4/12/08 3:18 AM, in article 48008f43@linux, "Don Nafe" <dnafe@rogers.com>
wrote:
> Another thought - as Mike's plugs have no presets maybe we can start
> compiling presets by using snapshots of his plugs.
>
> Again any thoughts
>
>
> "Kerry Galloway" <kg@kerrygalloway.com> wrote in message
> news:C4252755.2C37%kg@kerrygalloway.com...
>> 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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| Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: the PARIS Wiki is born! [message #97940 is a reply to message #97922] |
Sat, 12 April 2008 18:00 |
mike audet[3]
Messages: 88
Registered: June 2008
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Member |
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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
>
>
>
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| Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: the PARIS Wiki is born! [message #97944 is a reply to message #97940] |
Sat, 12 April 2008 22:30 |
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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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| Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: the PARIS Wiki is born! [message #98014 is a reply to message #97944] |
Wed, 16 April 2008 19:50 |
tonehouse
Messages: 184
Registered: July 2006
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Senior Member |
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You rock Kerry ! Great Idea...
"Kerry Galloway" <kg@kerrygalloway.com> wrote in message
news:C426E8A2.2C71%kg@kerrygalloway.com...
> 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
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
>
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| Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: the PARIS Wiki is born! [message #98018 is a reply to message #98014] |
Wed, 16 April 2008 20:15 |
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Thanks Mike - don't know if you found the article, but it's here:
http://www.kerrygalloway.com/WikiPARIS/wikka.php?wakka=Paris Hist
On 4/16/08 7:50 PM, in article 4806af54@linux, "tonehouse"
<zmcleod@comcast.net> wrote:
> You rock Kerry ! Great Idea...
> "Kerry Galloway" <kg@kerrygalloway.com> wrote in message
> news:C426E8A2.2C71%kg@kerrygalloway.com...
>> 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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