Wiki Week
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Hello @JKSH,
thank you very much for your extensive reply and the links! Regarding repetitions: Agreed. I will remove these parts from the wiki. Haiku : Awesome! Didn't know the guys were that near to a working port.
Thanks again!
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IIRC, the PS3 could run linux (Yellow Dog Linux if memory serves well but also OpenSuse and Ubuntu) at least the original systems but not the latest iterations. The latest firmware also disabled that possibility but if the OS had X running, then Qt was probably supported.
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Hi everyone!
While I'm cutting my way through the wiki I'm wondering what's the difference between a snippet, a howto, a demo and an example? Any ideas? :-) -
Hi,
I'd say demos and examples are pretty much the same with the difference that an example shows/explains basic concepts and a demo goes further. I see a snippet being a code sample that you can easily reuse in your project e.g. a sorting algorithm for Qt's container class. Howto should be a an example/demo with complete explanation on how to do a given task/solve a given problem.
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@SGaist Thanks. That sounds sane. The problem with this regarding the wiki is that only a few people seem to have a clue about this classification and thus the coresponding categories get mixed up. I'm looking for an easy to understand definition of the terms so that we can put it on the wiki to help people finding the right category for their content.
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@JKSH said:
Related to organization, we also need to overhaul the Categories system. There are too many single-member categories.
I managed to get rid of about 80% of them. Now it's up to the admins to delete the remaining 171 (!) unused categories... :-)
Edit: I think by now categories are a big pain in the arse: They are hard to maintain because only admins can move them and it seems that everyone thinks that his/her article needs to be a category by its own. IMAO we need some very strict policy to fight this.
Edit2: Maybe we should rethink the categories system and use it a bit differently than intended by its inventors. Category pages are in some way stupid because one cannot localize them because there is always only one category page and the suffix-stuff doesn't work there. But: The content that is automatically generated there is language agnostic to users who are logged in. What if we forbid the manual editing of category pages by policy and give the suffix /en to all English content? I'm not sure yet if this is a good idea. Honestly, I tend to think this would be a dirty workaround. I still think that dedicated mediawikis in subdomains would be much cleaner. What do you think?
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@Wieland a huge thank you for going through the wiki. The front page looks so much better now. (and looking at the edit list, a lot of other places too!)
The subdomains are technically complicated (and looking after the backend makes me hate everything technically complicated :) )
I'll take it upon myself to go and delete unused categories, or maybe I'll make you a full admin...
The category mess is partly from the past two (or maybe more?) migrations the wiki has been through. -
@tekojo Hi, thank you very much!
Regarding subdomains: Maybe I was a bit to enthusiastic about localization. After this weekend of looking at quite a number of wiki articles I must say that I'm somewhat disappointed by the quantity and quality of localized articles.
Regarding the deletion of unused categories: I think we should wait one or two weeks to give interested parties time to raise their voices against this or that nomination. From a statistical point of view I'm pretty sure I made some mistakes and nominated stuff for deletion that should be kept. You said you considered making me a full admin. I don't know if this is a good idea. I'm new here and don't know anyone in the community yet. I think this had the potential to cause unnecessary trouble.
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@Wieland ok, then I'll secretly add you to the admin list one day, when I forget that you didn't want to be there. Or tell me when you feel more at home, and I'll add rights :)
The translations have been done at different times and might not have been updated when the original has been updated.
