FIRST FRC wiki

[joelg236]

Originally Posted by ~Cory~

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/fo...c&daysprune=-1

It looks like the project has died... http://www.firstwiki.net/

[Cal578]

Originally Posted by joelg236

It looks like the project has died... http://www.firstwiki.net/

What would it take to resurrect this one? I'd love to see a wiki owned and supported by the entire FIRST community. It would be a great companion to ChiefDelphi. Plus, it's a great URL.

[Hallry]

Originally Posted by Cal578

What would it take to resurrect this one? I'd love to see a wiki owned and supported by the entire FIRST community. It would be a great companion to ChiefDelphi. Plus, it's a great URL.

I myself have tried many times to get help to try to revive it (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=95338), but not enough support was shown. It seems like now, the site is down completely. I have PM-ed Brandon Martus asking what happened to it, but have so far not received any response. As of late, spam was consuming the site, and not enough people showed that they cared about it.

[dcarr]

Originally Posted by Hallry

I myself have tried many times to get help to try to revive it, but not enough support was shown. It seems like now, the site is down completely. I have PM-ed Brandon Martus asking what happened to it, but have so far not received any response. As of late, spam was consuming the site, and not enough people showed that they cared about it.

Spam is a huge problem with Wiki's...we had one set up just for our team and it would continually get over-run with spam. I'm sure there are methods to reduce or prevent it, but it's tricky. Also, until recently, MediaWiki hasn't been very user-friendly (and it has a long ways to go) which tends to curb adoption.

[ferret_guy]

Originally Posted by Cal578

What would it take to resurrect this one? I'd love to see a wiki owned and supported by the entire FIRST community. It would be a great companion to ChiefDelphi. Plus, it's a great URL.

If there is enough interest I would be willing to host the wiki on my server I am not sure who currently owns the domain or if a copy of the original wiki exists.

[Brandon Martus]

The spam was HUGE on firstwiki. The 'text' table crashed a couple weeks ago and the CD server wasn't big enough to repair the table (there's that much spam). I'm going to pull it off to a local machine, repair and re-upload, but that may take a while.

[RoboMom]

Originally Posted by Brandon Martus

The spam was HUGE on firstwiki. The 'text' table crashed a couple weeks ago and the CD server wasn't big enough to repair the table (there's that much spam). I'm going to pull it off to a local machine, repair and re-upload, but that may take a while.

Brandon, we don't pay you enough.

[Hallry]

Originally Posted by RoboMom

Brandon, we don't pay you enough.

Completely agreed. Thanks a lot, Brandon.

I'm glad to see this increased support for the wiki. Hopefully with this new dedication, we will finally be able to restore it to its past, and deserved, glory. I know I'm up for the challenge.

[Tom Line]

I know the idea of a wiki is that just anyone can edit it.

However, unlike Wikipedia, our community is decidely smaller. I'd also wager that almost everyone who contributes to the First wiki has a CD account.

I wonder if it's time to tie the ability to edit the wiki to having a CD account (if that's even possible).

[Hallry]

Originally Posted by Tom Line

I know the idea of a wiki is that just anyone can edit it.

However, unlike Wikipedia, our community is decidely smaller. I'd also wager that almost everyone who contributes to the First wiki has a CD account.

I wonder if it's time to tie the ability to edit the wiki to having a CD account (if that's even possible).

That sounds like a great idea. I don't know if that will be able to be implemented, but if it can, it should definitely be done. I'll look into it.

[dcarr]

Originally Posted by Hallry

That sounds like a great idea. I don't know if that will be able to be implemented, but if it can, it should definitely be done. I'll look into it.

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extens...rs_Integration

That might be a start

[Brandon Martus]

It is possible (we've done it with the VEX Forum & the VEX Wiki) but I'd have to see if the two software versions are compatible.

[synth3tk]

If that's the case, then it may help cut down on the spam. Maybe having one or two more extensions for spam control could help keep it down to a minimum. I'd also be willing to help out as an admin/moderator.

[Hallry]

Originally Posted by synth3tk

If that's the case, then it may help cut down on the spam. Maybe having one or two more extensions for spam control could help keep it down to a minimum. I'd also be willing to help out as an admin/moderator.

Besides for myself, we only had two or three other dedicated admins to help rid the wiki of spam. It would be great to get more admins on the site to help out.

If Brandon is able to connect editing the wiki with having an account on Chief Delphi, then we hopefully wouldn't have to worry about new spam being created, but rather just deleting all of the old spam pages and accounts. After that is completed, we can finally focus on adding additional content to current and new pages.

[Twest3259]

Just a thought about some of the content that could be added in eventually, I also wasn't here for the FIRSTwiki in the first place. But, could there be a Section in the descriptions of each game for the bots of this year, organised by team number then having a photo, multiple photos and maybe a description of the reasoning behind design, submitted by each team that would want it there?