User talk:Davewa

Hello Davewa, and Welcome to the OLPC wiki!

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Good luck, and have fun. ----Sj talk 17:47, 24 April 2008 (EDT)

Starcharting!

I'm a fan of the activity myself :) I note via olpcn you're finding development frustrating -- I'd like to know more about what in particular troubles you, particularly with internationalization. I take it you haven't used gettext before for the i18n part... that's the toolchain you want to use to generate pot files that can be localized by others (see pootle for more). --Sj talk 17:53, 24 April 2008 (EDT)

tweezers & tutorials

Thanks for the tweezers suggestion - I've added those to the list. (Feel free to edit it, and any other wiki page, directly as well!)

The developer tutorials are getting done more slowly than I'd like - I've been asked to focus on grassroots stuff for my internship (rather than development/tutorials). I'm going to try to start clearing weekend and evening time to work on them; your message was a big motivator that reminded me that they'd be helpful and I should do them. Keep in mind I'm new to all this stuff as well, so I don't necessarily know "best practices" - I'm just writing down the things I find that work for me, hopefully in a format useful to other people.

Mchua 11:04, 9 May 2008 (EDT)

A fresh start

Your frustration with the on-going lack of API documentation is well documented! We have a chance to do things a bit differently at Sugar Labs--I hope you'll persevere and perhaps serve as the leader of the community's "API Documentation Review" process. (StarChart has been a big hit in Peru, BTW.) --Walter 17:31, 18 May 2008 (EDT)

Semantic Mediawiki and the edits to StarChart page

At the top of the page there is now an "edit with form" tab... using this form creates the "Activity Summary" that appears at the bottom of the page. I know its not pretty now, but the wiki admins are planning on using the info to make the pages uniform, prettier, and easier to search. I filled out the form for every activity on the wiki. Now its up to the admins to make it beautiful! ;-) --AuntiMame 11:56 ET, 8 August 2008

Thanks for the headsup

Mal-edits reverted. FYI, we're working on a Wiki gang and a counter-vandalism bot to address issues like this as they come up. Please check out the Wiki gang page if you're interested in getting involved. Seth 19:58, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

solitaire

sweet! thanks for the info. btw, I've been doing a lot of work on the wiki (categorizing files that have been uploaded) and there appears to be some good programmer stuff here that is just buried.. I'm trying to collect links in the hopes that something might help you with StarChart. AuntiMame 19:56, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

notes from one wiki newbie to another

here are some of the neat things I've learned about using wikis (and I still think of myself as a newbie too!)

To answer your questions:

1. you can make any dang pages you want ;-D
2. I thinks the naming structure you proposed is perfectly fine. It make a heck of a lot more sense than what some folks do! And, yes, all you need to do is type in wiki.laptop.org/go/StarChart/<name of new page> and you're ready to rumble. In fact, I've recently learned that you don't even need to put in the underscore. The wiki will do that for you!
3. Anyone can upload anything. (I'm in the process of categorizing everything that's ever been uploaded to the wiki and believe-you-me, there is a lot of extraneous stuff!) There is a link in the left-side nav (down in the Toolbox section) for "Upload File". It'll take you here: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Special:Upload

Wiki Tricks I have recently learned:

• If you place ~~~~ (that's 4 tilde's) at the end of a post it will automagically add your username and the date/time.
• its really helpful if, when uploading files, you use a name that indicates the version of the activity. Also please put a description in the comment field. Pretty please with sugar on top?
• underscore in a page title is not needed (see #2 above)
• when typing something that the wiki wants to process (like a URL, or a category, or whatever) but that you just are typing for instruction-- if you place it in the <nowiki> </nowiki> (which, funnily enough you have to do to get the command to appear here!) tag it will be see but not processed.

AuntiMame 18:40, 18 September 2008 (UTC)