Very nice but the real power comes from all of us making small contributions over time. I promise if Ted hosted the site I would make it easier to read with more graphics, links to other sites, and links to more details. We could have a page just on geostationary and a sub page just on geostationary season, what it's about and where/when to look with xl spreadsheet. A page on ideas of where observing contributions are needed and how to get started (ted basically already has that but it could use minor improvements). We could have a sub page on the space shuttle (which will be useless soon I think!). and how to see a night launch up the coast with another xl spreadsheet. A page on what to do if you are new and want a satellite IDed. And so on. - George Roberts http://gr5.org -------------------------------------------------- From: "Jim Blackhurst" <jimthree@gmail.com> Sent: Monday, August 09, 2010 5:05 PM To: "SeeSat-L" <seesat-l@satobs.org> Subject: Re: website > I had some time available today to install media wiki on a webserver and > put > some content in there. I'd invite anyone who is interested to have a look > at: > > http://www.pointlessclick.com/satobs/ > > This is how the Satobs website could look if it were converted to run > within > a WIki framework. I've not invested a lot of time in this, there is not a > lot of content there, and what is, copied and pasted from the existing > site. > Have a look at the Geostationary Satellites and Magnitude entries for a > good idea of how the pages could look. > > This is a live install of MediaWiki so feel free to create an account and > explore how to manage and create content. these links might help you get > started. > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Formatting > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Links > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Contents > > The menu down the left had side is default, we would change it to be > more relevant to our content. have a look at the 'Special Pages' link to > see > under the bonnet. > > Just a quick note about my motivation for this. I am certainly not trying > to > usurp the existing site, this is a playground where people can come and > see > why some of us think a wiki would be a good solution for managing > the community's information and research. The server this is running on is > not really suitable for taking on load generated by satobs.org anyway. > Any > content created here can be saved and moved over to a real home if it's > decided to go down the wiki route, otherwise I was just planning on > deleting > the installation in a few weeks time when people had finished looking > around. > > I will totally respect everyone's privacy by not doing anything stupid > with > any e-mail addresses that people enter in this site, and passwords are > hashed when stored in the DB anyway so I couldn't see them even if I > wanted > to. > > If you choose to register you can watch pages, and be alerted to changes > by > e-mail so that you can see the vandalism system at work. If anyone would > like to be elevated to be given administrator privileges, then please mail > me and i'll change your account. saying that, the only advantage to > being administrator is the ability to delete content, and grant privaliges > to other users. > > Please have fun with this, and don't hesitate to e-mail me if you would > like > any more info on the system or have any questions (lots of questions > posted > on SeeSat-L about playing with wiki's would not be appreciated I'm sure). > We > can also use the discussion tab on the main page to discuss. I'm not an > expert on mediawiki at all, but I use it at work, and have one of my own, > so > I should be able to help. > > cheers > Jim > > > > > > > > On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 4:57 PM, George Roberts <gr@gr5.org> wrote: > >> It's really up to Ted. If you've never installed wiki software it can be >> daunting to choose which one to use and to follow the instructions. If >> you've done it a few times it only takes 5 minutes to create an empty >> wiki. >> >> Once the wiki exists I'd be happy to start by transferring ted's current >> content to the new pages. I'm too loyal to Ted to start my own or use >> someone else's. It would be best if it was on the same website but again >> it's up to Ted and he probably doesn't "have the time". >> >> - George Roberts >> http://gr5.org >> >> -------------------------------------------------- >> From: "Scott Campbell" <cbcampbel58@gmail.com> >> Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2010 9:33 AM >> To: "SeeSat-L" <seesat-l@satobs.org> >> Subject: Re: website >> >> > This is a great idea. How do we begin? >> > >> > Scott Campbell >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > Subject: Re: website >> > >> >> If it was a wiki we could all update it and ted wouldn't have to. And >> >> with >> >> wiki's if someone vandalizes a page I would get an email and I would >> >> fix >> >> it >> >> quickly. >> >> >> >> - George Roberts >> >> http://gr5.org >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Seesat-l mailing list >> http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l >> > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/private/seesat-l/attachments/20100809/b726a2f8/attachment.html > _______________________________________________ > Seesat-l mailing list > http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l > _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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