NDWiki:Community Portal

Welcome to the community portal!

This is the place to find out what is happening on NDWiki. Please add your thoughts to these open discussions. Use a colon (:) at the beginning of each paragraph to indent your responses (and two colons to respond to something already indented, so on and so forth), and sign your response with ~~~~.

Building plans

NDWiki:Building plans is a miniproject to build up the wiki to a fully functional site. If you want to talk about specific project issues, do that on the Building plans talk page. /Mike 11:00, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

Statistics

Based on Special:Statistics and Help:Namespaces.

Month	Content articles	Redirects	Images (all)	Pages (all)	Registered users	Articles missing refs.	Articles missing info.
2008-12	25	7	39	191	4	4	5
2009-01	27	11	40	198	4	4	5
2009-02	33	10	41	214	9	4	5
2009-03	40	20	59	257	9	6	5
2009-04	50	20	60	269	10	8	5
2009-05	59	21	64	283	11	8	5
2009-06	58	21	64	282	12	8	5
2009-07	58	22	64	283	13	8	5
2009-08	61	22	64	292	14	8	5
2009-09	91	22	70	349	15	10	5
2009-10	97	24	71	367	16	10	4

Last edit: Mike 06:34, 4 October 2009 (UTC)

General Announcements

• Upgraded the Wiki to MediaWiki 1.15.1. Please report any problem! /Mike 12:19, 9 September 2009 (UTC)
• The new {{Webref}} template should make it easier to make similar referenses and external PDF links got the mini PDF icon (). Also the Book sources page is updated (try ISBN 82-00-22506-2 to have a look). /Mike 18:18, 15 August 2009 (UTC)

License

ND Wiki uses the GFDL version 1.2. Wouldn't it be better to upgrade to 1.3 and then to CC-BY-SA, to be compatible to Wikipedia? --LA2 06:55, 16 October 2009 (UTC)

Yes! Is it possible to do that in one step? --Mike 07:44, 16 October 2009 (UTC)

There are two ways: (1) If you can convince every contributor to relicense their contributions, you can change to any license at any time. I guess this is possible on ndwiki, considering how few contributors you have. How many contributors do you have? If most agree, can you afford to drop the contributions by the rest? (2) The other way is to follow the transition rules in GFDL 1.2 and 1.3, but this requires that you respect some deadline, which might already be too late. --LA2 08:47, 16 October 2009 (UTC)

The deadline for option (2) was in August 1, 2009. NDWiki have the same reason to change as Wikipedia. See GFDL 1.3: Wikipedia's exit permit. Now we need all the major contributors agreement to "upgrade" the license. /Mike 10:27, 16 October 2009 (UTC)

How to do this in practice? We all add a statement (e.g. "everything I write may be licensed through CC-BY-SA") on our User pages? -- TArntsen 10:42, 16 October 2009 (UTC)

If you need my agreement for changing the license of my contributions you have it now. Mike may change the license of my contributions to NDWiki to any license he think is appropriate.
So, that would take care of the legality and I can get back to doing real work. I'll continue to add more material soon, too much work right now. :-) --Gandalf 12:13, 16 October 2009 (UTC)

The only users who have contributed to the wiki, except their own presentation, are Gandalf, LA2, me, Roger, Svinhufvud and TArntsen. It would be nice to also have Rogers and Svinhufvuds acceptance. /Mike 09:59, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

What about licenses for uploaded files? I wanted to upload my source code for a tool that I wrote, I've licensed it under GPLV3. But the upload form license selection only includes GPLV2 (and I wish it would allow .tar.gz too.. not just .tgz, but that's just a minor inconvenience). --TArntsen 14:02, 13 September 2011 (CEST)

General layout

Should we try to put some more "start" links on the front page? Right now (May/2010) it's a bit difficult to find the interesting articles unless you know where they are, otherwise the only way seems to be to, for example, use 'Special pages->Categories' and continue from there. I ran into this when I tried to find a good place to link to the floppy article (currently there's no page linking to it): It's not easy to get the overview. -- TArntsen 12:55, 6 June 2010 (UTC)

Good thinking! What links do you think we should have? Another idea is link to a sitemap. Having a large amount of links in main page is usually not recomended, since it scares away new visitors. /Mike 17:56, 6 June 2010 (UTC)

I'm terrible when it comes to layout-organization of heterogenous information, I always get stuck! But maybe we could start with a separate sitemap, as you suggest, and add whatever we think of (to start with), and link to it from the front page (which would then just get one more link). The sitemap would need something that would make it easy to go directly to info about some category. Let's think about what we have.. documentation (which is currently the only one easy to find), ND-100 instruction set (pretty well hidden now, although 'random page' will get you there quickly), ND-100 hardware, ND-500(0) hardware, a little bit about Sintran, that piece about floppy formats, then file formats, ND history, compilers/assemblers (it's actually a bit difficult to figure out what we have right now.. I always have to hunt around). I would also like to have a section about Sintran commands (that is, all of them, like for the instructions), monitor calls, ND-500(0) instructions (unless we'll get overwhelmed). But how to lay that out from the/a top? That's what I'm not good at! :-) -- TArntsen 09:20, 7 June 2010 (UTC)