FIRST FRC wiki

[ferret_guy]

Because I was frustrated with trying to piece together all the information on all the various pieces of FRC hardware and software I am working in a wiki and I thought I would share it with you all. Feel free to add edit etc...

Temporary link

[~Cory~]

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

The first FIRSTWiki died last year.

I would recommend adding your new information to the WPI Think Tank if you wan't your work to end up in a stable and mature project.

[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

[cbale2000]

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.

Somehow that doesn't surprise me at all. Spam was being added at a rate of roughly 10-20 new pages per minute, so the crash was inevitable.


I wouldn't mind seeing the FIRSTwiki started up again, either from a restored version (even if it was just select, useful pages) or fresh, but something would have to be done to handle the spam...

Linking accounts to ChiefDelphi would be an ideal way to combat spam, from what I've seen (though Brandon may correct me on this), ChiefDelphi seems to have much fewer instances of incoming spam, plus the added step of having to register here first would virtually eliminate any bots trying to post on the wiki since bots typically aren't smart enough to register on one website in order to post on a different one.

I'm still up for helping moderate and contribute like before, if and when there is a wiki up and running again.

[Hallry]

We'd love to have you help out again.

So far, those interested in Moderating:
1. synth3tk
2. Siri
3. Herbblood
4. cbale2000
5. Littleboy
6. coalhot

And you meant when the wiki is up and running again, not if .