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Originally Posted by Bill_B
Alex,
Is there room in your design for multiple flash drives, especially from other teams? The grand scheme could include your central wiki as the collection point, into which scouting reports from several flash drives could be merged. The results in progress would be available as a part of the input process. That way those who contribute to the scouting will share in the results. Perhaps you could even set scouting assignments via the flash drives.(?)
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There is! Currently we use a template for all of the team pages, and have a string of variables you feed into the wiki to generate every team's page. We found that that way it's incredibly easy to edit, and anyone can fill in simple variables.
If someone was to take a copy of the flash drive you can have a copy of the wiki, and it's possible to copy that string of data into any scouting program out there.
Theoretically we can have a bunch of teams using it, and through copy and paste you can create a giant database.
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Originally Posted by MikeWherley
Alex,
What a great idea ... and to take it one step further ... We can web host MediaWiki for all of FIRST for scouting purposes. I haven't played with MediaWiki beyond the basics, but if you don't have Internet access at the competition, would it be easy to set something up so that teams can upload at night or something? That way we can track teams throughout the season and share with everyone???
What do you think?
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If you could host it it would be fantastic! Although I was thinking of applying for an
http://www.ambitiouslemon.com hosting, so that everyone can access it. If the ambitious lemon thing doesn't fall through I would be delighted if you could help us out!
And as noted above, there is a simple string of text based variables that anyone can copy into their mediawiki.
The reason I didn't initially host it online is that I have been to a few competitions of ours in which Wi-Fi is not reachable.
Also, would you want me to post the entire file system that we hold on the jump drive to google code so everyone can have their own copy of the wiki?
EDIT: After applying to ambitious lemon I noticed that there is a 2-3 week lead time. If you can host the wiki I would greatly appreciate it!