revDocWiki

[Russell Martin]

I'm fairly new to Revolution. I recently purchased Dreamcard and  
while there are things that I really like about it, there have been  
several issues with it that took way too much time for me to either  
figure out work arounds on my own or search through the archives of  
this list for solutions.

I've found searching the list archives to be helpful, but time  
consuming to actually read through different threads until one person  
understood the question the other person was asking or experienced  
the same malfunction. I started wondering if anyone had a wiki where  
users could post helpful how-to's and sanity saving work arounds. Not  
wanting to reinvent the wheel, I searched the list archives and found  
this thread. It seems like others are interested in doing the same  
thing but that nothing has yet materialized. (I did find this http:// 
revolution.lexicall.org/wiki/tiki-index.php?page=SoftwareRevolution,  
but felt that it wasn't quite what I was looking for.)

So, I've set up a wiki at http://revdocwiki.wikispaces.org/ . I've  
posted the 3 work arounds for the issues that have caused me the most  
frustration up until now. Wikispaces.org is new to me, so I can't  
vouch for them as a reliable space to host this information, however,  
I figure it's worth trying it out.

If anyone else is interested, please take a look and maybe post some  
information there as well.

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Russ Martin
abecedarian at mac.com
russell_martin at yahoo.com


We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make  
us love one another. -- Henry David Thoreau


On Jul 25, 2005, at 5:43 PM, Timothy Miller wrote:

> Someone asked earlier today, in re the hypothetical wiki that might  
> be used to improve and expand the rev documentation: "What is Rev  
> willing to kick in?" or something along those lines.
>
> An obvious first step would be for Rev to convert its current  
> onboard docs into a format suitable for a wiki, and allow the  
> wikiMaster use of those docs, without charge. Rev could retain the  
> copyright, if it wanted to -- if they are copyrighted.
>
> Rev might want to abstain from any more obligations to the wiki,  
> until the Rev people see how it's working out. Heck, the wikiMaster  
> or wikiGroup might be able to charge Rev for the improved version  
> of its own docs. However, it seems more civilized for Rev and the  
> wikiMasters to reach some kind of agreement beforehand. That's more  
> civilized than hostageware.
>
> Of course, this is all hypothetical, at best, really more like  
> highly speculative.
>
> What would *I* be willing to do? Well, at least I can write. If a  
> property, chunk, object, command, etc., might benefit from a  
> verbose alternative to the usual terse dictionary entry, I would be  
> willing to write verbose explanations of some items I understand  
> well, and submit them to the wiki.
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> Tim
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