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Microstock Photography Forum - General => Symbiostock => Symbiostock - General => Topic started by: Leo Blanchette on November 22, 2013, 05:34
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As if this project isn't nerdy enough!
Its barely hatched, but you can see that from here on, we're going to have a strong provision for documentation.
Here's some details:
Symbiostock.org is being overhauled for the wiki:
http://www.symbiostock.org/Main_Page (http://www.symbiostock.org/Main_Page)
Don't knock it -- Wiki's are supposed to be ugly. Like real geek culture, the worse you look, the smarter its assumed you are. I was shocked to see it uses tables for layout! I can't believe this is an internet standard for archiving knowledge. Its already ancient. But anyway, it does its job great.
With that said, if someone wants to make a nice redeeming set of graphics to "splash" it out in the usual designerly way, that would be awesome.
All Symbiostockers can contribute:
http://www.symbiostock.org/Contribute/ (http://www.symbiostock.org/Contribute/)
Code documentation for future developers has started (Done this week hopefully):
http://www.symbiostock.org/developer_documentation/packages/symbiostock.html (http://www.symbiostock.org/developer_documentation/packages/symbiostock.html)
You log in with your Symbiostock forum credentials (a good shield for automated wiki-spammers too)!
http://www.symbiostock.org/community/ (http://www.symbiostock.org/community/)
Your personal Symbio-site wiki:
For fun and practice, the invitation is out for Symbiostockers to write a wiki on about their personal sites --
For instance, my site would be:
http://www.symbiostock.org (http://www.symbiostock.org)/Sites/clipartillustration.com
Yours would be
http://www.symbiostock.org (http://www.symbiostock.org)/Sites/yourSymbioSite.com
As you can see, there's nothing there. If you are logged in, you will have the ability to create content for that path, and a page will be generated there. Let it be your personal Symbiostock site wiki :D For organization sake, keep the /sites/ path in the URL.
Populating the knowledge base
There is TONS of symbio-reference here on MSG that can be adapted to the wiki. Having spoken to Leaf, you are able to retrieve / adapt things from this forum to the wiki only with permission of it's original author/poster. (thus centralizing Symbiostock's knowledge base).
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Looks good but now all the forum links are broken in google. Like this one for example
http://www.symbiostock.org/Topic/329/images-not-showing-on-fresh-install-help/ (http://www.symbiostock.org/Topic/329/images-not-showing-on-fresh-install-help/)
perhaps you can set up a magical htaccess file to forward everything to the correct thread... the linked one for example is now here
http://www.symbiostock.org/community/viewtopic.php?id=329 (http://www.symbiostock.org/community/viewtopic.php?id=329)
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You log in with your Symbiostock forum credentials (a good shield for automated wiki-spammers too)!
[url]http://www.symbiostock.org/community/[/url] ([url]http://www.symbiostock.org/community/[/url])
I tried to login with my forum credentials and it wouldn't let me in.
EDIT: Tried it again about a half hour later on a different computer and it worked this time.
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So I made a first pass at a page for my Symbiostock site. Not sure if that's what you had in mind Leo, but take a look:
http://www.symbiostock.org/Sites/digitalbristles.com (http://www.symbiostock.org/Sites/digitalbristles.com)
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So I made a first pass at a page for my Symbiostock site. Not sure if that's what you had in mind Leo, but take a look:
[url]http://www.symbiostock.org/Sites/digitalbristles.com[/url] ([url]http://www.symbiostock.org/Sites/digitalbristles.com[/url])
That looks great Jo Ann!
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I like it a lot ... Very nice and inviting text and screenshot!
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Great start! I've just added the site directory - http://www.symbiostock.org/Sites/ (http://www.symbiostock.org/Sites/)
It will be a little more "category" separated in time, but for now its just a simple list / placeholder.
Great job!
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awesome stuff :)
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Ok, I'd like to add my sites in Wiki but I think I need a tutorial :) Can you help me Jo Ann or Christine?
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You need to put in your sitename in the following URL
http://www.symbiostock.org/Sites/my_site_name.com and go to that page. Log in (using your forum login for Symbiostock.org) and click the edit tab. Add something and Save and you're good to go
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You need to put in your sitename in the following URL [url]http://www.symbiostock.org/Sites/my_site_name.com[/url] and go to that page. Log in (using your forum login for Symbiostock.org) and click the edit tab. Add something and Save and you're good to go
Thank you! I will finish my sites and I will write a description for them there. ;)