Re: The FIRSTwiki
 

Yes, there is one. All help can be found Here.
The templates are Here.

Re: The FIRSTwiki
 

Team 1317's page is starting to be built. I should "finish" it by the end of the week. :)

Re: The FIRSTwiki
 

Ok guys, I need your help. I'm looking for information pertaining to the 2000-1992 game designs. Official FIRST material, game designs, field pictures, facts, trivia, etc would be great. Heck, even video would be great! Just send the info to josephmatt@gmail.com and I'll get it up on the site, and then if there is any changes, then you can edit it if you want.

Re: The FIRSTwiki
 

Thanks to PiotrM2, we now have (as of about two hours from now) about 900 new pages. One for each team containing location, sponsors, robot name, and start year that he got from an xml file on www.usfirst.org. So this means two things, if you don't have a team page yet, its easier than ever to work on one, you just have to type plain old text. And 2, the page counter will be mostly meaningless for the next 2 or 3 weeks untill we really break 1000...

Re: The FIRSTwiki
 

Ok, so what exactly do the "talk" pages do? Is it obvious and I'm just too asleep? :)

Re: The FIRSTwiki
 

It's where you can discuss things. The Village Pump is for discussion not associated w/ a particular page.

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Let me add a bit more. The idea is to create an enclyopedia for all to view ... but for all to be able to edit (so as to improve) at the same time. This presents the problem -- if two or more people are editing a page and have different views about where it should go, to come to a consensus, they need a place to talk about it. The talk pages are simply meta-data about the page, "unprofessional" stuff that isn't for the general public, only those interested in editing the page. It is, in essence, a "behind the scenes" page. See wikipedia.org to learn more about a wiki (they have some good stuff up there, if you take the time to figure out where to find it).

Re: The FIRSTwiki
 

Thanks. I had been guessing on something like that, but I didn't want to be completely stupid. :)

Re: The FIRSTwiki
 

This is an interesting idea, there is something I dont quite grasp

anyone can read these pages and anyone can edit them?

ever run into someone on the internet who is malicious or abusive? If I put in a page that takes me several hours to create, whats stopping someone else from esentaiilly deleting everything I wrote and replaceing it with nonsense

or worse?

Re: The FIRSTwiki
 

I believe there is a history kept .. and you can probably ban someone.
If they can't .. I can stop the IP from hitting the server altogether.

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I had the exact same worry. Not any more! Anyone can "rollback" edits and convert back to the full text of any previous version of an article. And there are blocking features.

Re: The FIRSTwiki
 

This is standard for Wikis. See the skeptics link on the main page.

Re: The FIRSTwiki
 

Select a motto!

Go to:http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=28900 and vote.

Re: The FIRSTwiki
 

ok so then if the page can be rolled back, what if two people keep toggeling it back and forth? people with different opinions.

you post a bunch of stuff, and I come along a month later and correct your mistakes, then you put it back the way it was before I corrected it?

democracy isnt a good thing in all aspects of life - sometimes you need a supreme commander

or editor :^)

Re: The FIRSTwiki
 

It works in practice. An admin can always aribtrate serious conflict by locking a node or blocking users/ips. I doubt it will come to that.