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BoardsWiki

  • 24-11-2004 06:51PM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,051 ✭✭✭


    Ladies and gentlemen -

    We are proud to announce the BoardsWiki, a WikiWikiWeb for users of boards.ie:

    http://www.boards.ie/wiki/

    Hope you will enjoy, and put it to some proper use. Please let us know of any snags - we are using the MediaWiki system (as on Wikipedia).

    Also, if you double click on any word in the forums, it should bring you to an appropriate wiki page (if it exists).

    As a test, try double clicking on -> DeVore

    Thanks,

    John.
    --
    Post edited by Shield on


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Comments

  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,880 ✭✭✭Raphael


    Is that the only entry in it at the moment?


    Edit: Woah, I noticed this after 6 minutes....Hurrah for random double clicking


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,093 ✭✭✭woosaysdan


    sorry for my igorance but whats a wiki?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,387 ✭✭✭✭DeVore


    ow ow ow!! all of you stop double clicking me!


    Er, this is so cool I think a little pee came out.

    Anyway, hopefully people will fill it with Boards Love and explanations of our own little culture here...

    DeV.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,880 ✭✭✭Raphael




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,387 ✭✭✭✭DeVore


    ps: I've nicknamed it Biki for short.

    DeV.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,446 ✭✭✭✭amp


    \:d/ \:d/ Whoot! \:d/ \:d/

    P.s. Is there any chance we can turn off the caps being turned off when posting? I know it's there to stop newbies posting in caps but all it does is Make Them Post As If The Forces Of Evil Are Intervening.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,498 ✭✭✭quarryman


    i've decided you like cake.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,312 ✭✭✭mr_angry


    Snazzy. Double-clickage doesn't work in Opera though. We have the joy of a context menu instead.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,880 ✭✭✭Raphael


    And I've decided he doesnt like cake

    I meant pie


  • Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 21,504 Mod ✭✭✭✭Agent Smith


    any way of turning it off?


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  • Subscribers Posts: 9,716 ✭✭✭CuLT


    /me edits stuff.

    Well.... my work is done!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,446 ✭✭✭✭amp


    And already we have morons messing with it. I've corrected the mess made of Cloud and DeVore's entries. Bad rep going out to Mr Angry and quarryman.

    I've also got a load of stuff written up for an encyclopedia I was writing for boards (but had nothing to upload to until now). How do we create new articles? On wikipedia you just search and if it doesn't find it it asks you do you want to create it. Or am I missing something?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,403 ✭✭✭passive


    oh no...oh.. i don't like this one bit

    i double click stuff randomly as i read... not really sure why, but i do. this is seriously off-pissing. is there an off switch? =(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,762 ✭✭✭✭Winters


    The double click word thing is very annoying. Particularly for those of us who have the odd browsing habbit of highlighting things occasionally when they are reading stuff....

    Very annoying having random popups.


  • Moderators, Music Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 9,391 Mod ✭✭✭✭Lenny


    lol, bit of a funny


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,498 ✭✭✭quarryman


    pam wrote:
    And already we have morons messing with it. I've corrected the mess made of Cloud and DeVore's entries. Bad rep going out to Mr Angry and quarryman.

    I've also got a load of stuff written up for an encyclopedia I was writing for boards (but had nothing to upload to until now). How do we create new articles? On wikipedia you just search and if it doesn't find it it asks you do you want to create it. Or am I missing something?

    so what can we change then?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,358 ✭✭✭radiospan


    Yes I always double-click and highlight stuff as I'm reading it.

    Even though the Biki is a great idea, can we turn off double-clickage in our preferences somehow?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,867 ✭✭✭Third_Echelon


    I dunno.. all these buzzwords and buzzwebs, it makes no sense half of the new stuff that people come up with..

    What exactly is the point of this wiki? I've read the explanation but it still makes no sense... there is no practical use for this type of web app..

    It just seems like a waste of space that will only encourage tom-foolery and muppetry, which there seems to be enough of on boards already :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,446 ✭✭✭✭amp


    quarryman wrote:
    so what can we change then?
    Cloud wrote:
    Hope you will enjoy, and put it to some proper use.

    (My emphasis)

    It's an encyclopedia about boards.ie which will hopefully become an extensive guide to things specific to boards.ie.

    Personally I plan on writing about in-jokes like Atari Jaguar, cake, and things that will help newbies understand boards culture.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,498 ✭✭✭quarryman


    :) cool.

    should be good.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,730 ✭✭✭✭simu


    So, do we all get to write boards bios? That would be... interesting.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,445 ✭✭✭✭Creamy Goodness


    i really don't like this idea really cos say if you want to multiple quote in a reply i usually scroll down from the message box and doubleclick on the line i want to quote.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,958 ✭✭✭✭RuggieBear


    I'm sure we will all learn to love it...remember all the harumphs when Boards moved to Vb 3 :D

    I think its great...especially if it explains some of the in-jokes for us newbies....Kitten cakes, jeffy the kitten wtf?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,488 ✭✭✭SantaHoe


    :confused:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,732 ✭✭✭✭DMC


    Wonderful addition. Nice one Cloudie! :)


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 10,250 Mod ✭✭✭✭flogen


    Very cool! I like the double clickage, I can see it coming in very handy... although it would be nice to have the option to switch it on or off... I can also see it becoming very annoying :D

    Hopefully there won't be any messing on it and it'll be a useful resource, would it be fair to assume that boards.ie rules apply on the wiki too?

    flogen


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,880 ✭✭✭Raphael


    Ah ffs, people are already muppeting about

    Someone (81.111.83.118) went in and erased the contents of the community portal

    hurrah for the history


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,198 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Don't understand this double-click business. Is it an IE-only feature?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,387 ✭✭✭✭DeVore


    Wiki is designed to be messed about by muppets. It takes one click to return it to its previous state and then each page/explanation can be locked when its as near perfect as we can get it.

    I too double click stuff randomly when reading (no idea why either!) so I'll ask cloud about a possible off switch etc. It would make a great FAQ for new users too...

    DeV.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,488 ✭✭✭SantaHoe


    Raphael wrote:
    Ah ffs, people are already muppeting about

    Someone (81.111.83.118) went in and erased the contents of the community portal

    hurrah for the history

    Yeah that's a pitty, I think we were doing quite well with the whole random spam idea :p
    tbh when I saw it gone I just assumed it was someone cleaning up the crap


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