Introducing Geekzone Wiki and asking for volunteers

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#56742 22-Jan-2010 13:11

Hello folks

I have worked in the last week to bring up the Geekzone Wiki, hoping we can make it a repository of technology knowledge with a local flavour.

Being a Wiki, community involvement is important - I am asking for volunteers who would like to have Editor rights on this Wiki, being able to modify pages, add pages, introduce topics, etc.

We also have a Geekzone Private Forum to discuss the Wiki directions so anyone involved will have access to that forum.

Although I'd love to have everyone on boad, I will screen requests for editors - the more the best but I'd like you to understand we are looking for people who can write about the topics while being impartial.

The Wiki does have a discussion feature for each page and everyone (users and editors) are welcome to discuss each page's topic.

If you are interested please contact me. As I said, the more the best!

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#292172 22-Jan-2010 13:15

Would love to write articles for you. Especially the mobile networks one in plain english to help people choosing a handset and to get there head around frequencies

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#292175 22-Jan-2010 13:20

I'm happy to help out. My areas of expertise:
- Ruby on Rails development
- PHP development
- ExtJS development
- PostGIS

Areas of interest:
- MediaPortal
- 4TheRecord recording scheduler

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#292178 22-Jan-2010 13:28

I could put some stuff up about the Australasian Roomba model we have. Should that go under Mobile Devices or a new section?

Is the Wiki supposed to be just for technical support type-issues, or tech knowledge in general? I know quite a bit about the NZ RDS TMC system that came online last year (that's traffic on radio for those who don't know the acronyms).

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#292180 22-Jan-2010 13:29

meesham: I'm happy to help out. My areas of expertise:
- Ruby on Rails development
- PHP development
- ExtJS development
- PostGIS

Areas of interest:
- MediaPortal
- 4TheRecord recording scheduler

english please

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#292181 22-Jan-2010 13:32

I know a guy buy the name of Steve who would be great at writing articles. Surname Puddle, Buddle, Piddle or something like that.

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#292183 22-Jan-2010 13:35

johnr:
meesham: I'm happy to help out. My areas of expertise:
- Ruby on Rails development
- PHP development
- ExtJS development
- PostGIS

Areas of interest:
- MediaPortal
- 4TheRecord recording scheduler

english please

The wiki could explain what it means :)

All the software development stuff probably wouldn't be useful, but we could do a guide on how to setup Windows 7 Media Centre, MediaPortal, GB-PVR etc for use with Freeview in NZ, and maybe a comparison.

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#292184 22-Jan-2010 13:35

Might be worth considering giving editing rights (by default) to everyone who is trusted or trusted + subscriber or something like that.

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#292195 22-Jan-2010 14:00

Ragnor: Might be worth considering giving editing rights (by default) to everyone who is trusted or trusted + subscriber or something like that.

We might do this in the future, but for now it's a separate database.

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#292198 22-Jan-2010 14:09

NealR: I know a guy buy the name of Steve who would be great at writing articles. Surname Puddle, Buddle, Piddle or something like that.

You think that because I'm an unemployed bum I just sit in front of a PC on the interw3bs all day?

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#292199 22-Jan-2010 14:15

sbiddle:
NealR: I know a guy buy the name of Steve who would be great at writing articles. Surname Puddle, Buddle, Piddle or something like that.

You think that because I'm an unemployed bum I just sit in front of a PC on the interw3bs all day?

Yep

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#292200 22-Jan-2010 14:17

Unlike JohnR and NealR who are employed to just sit in front of a PC on the interw3bs all day.

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#292203 22-Jan-2010 14:23

I would be keen to help with the wiki, i have just on 15 years programming exp. on Mac computers and i am currently a iphone application developer ,

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#292211 22-Jan-2010 14:38

NealR: Unlike JohnR and NealR who are employed to just sit in front of a PC on the interw3bs all day.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with that... The interwebs are far more interesting that doing work anyway!

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#292215 22-Jan-2010 14:42

Just tried creating a Wiki account and got the error "Invalid Password". Is this a bug or is there a security requirement that's not mentioned?

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#292217 22-Jan-2010 14:46

Try having at least one number in your password.

And JohnR and NealR - are you related?

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