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2010-09-25
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2010-09-25
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Dave, thanks for getting back to us on this. I haven't looked at the newly agreed wiki priorities, but I can tell you this: Even if the wiki wasn't scrubbed entirely clean of Maemo4 info, there are important things that were there which no longer are. Case in point is the Microb Hardware Key Bindings, which I wrote about in the first post.
Where did things like that go? Is there a way to get them back?
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2010-09-25
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Short answer: I don't know; there doesn't look to be any obvious edits removing them in the MicroB wiki page. There are a couple of us who follow the recent changes log (and we could use more people) who usually catch this over-zealous behaviour, but sometimes things get through the cracks (witness "N900 Hardware" page proliferation, which I think isn't useful: http://wiki.maemo.org/index.php?titl...re&namespace=0).
Perhaps they didn't make the migration from the itt wiki? Perhaps theyw ere deleted because someone (maybe even me?) didn't think that the information was useful/relevant? Perhaps it was a 3/4 like wiki page that got deleted or merged with another one? Perhaps there was someone who misguidedly "tidied up" pages, and was overly zealous? I really can't tell.
Would it be overly glib on my part to suggest that if there's a use for this information that the MicroB wiki page or the "MicroB tweaks" page (if this is a tweak) would be good places to put this? This is, after all, a wiki
Cheers,
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2010-09-27
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2010-09-27
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Perhaps theyw ere deleted because someone (maybe even me?) didn't think that the information was useful/relevant?
Would it be overly glib on my part to suggest that if there's a use for this information that the MicroB wiki page or the "MicroB tweaks" page (if this is a tweak) would be good places to put this? This is, after all, a wiki
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2010-09-27
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If you'd like to turn some of that anger into productive effort to improve the wiki, I would be delighted to hear your suggestions for improvements.
The wiki gardners page states a certain number of principles we're using to guide wiki editing, and the maemo.org website redesign pages can give you some hints as to the design decisions which were made for maemo.org.
Some of these things can be improved, if you point out their failings & make suggestions for improvements. Some things (for example, not explicitly pointing to "wiki", which is a technology, and instead pointing to "documentation", which is what is in the wiki) were design decisions, which I would be very hesitant to change.
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2010-09-27
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Here is a great idea:
If you don't understand a page's relevance or usefulness, don't delete it. This wiki is supposed to be about Maemo, not about you.
Why would someone want to work on some page that you will later delete because you do not understand. If the criterion for page survival is that one of a few select people understands it, let those select few write the pages, and not ask other people to waste their time.
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2010-09-27
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Now, let me repeat, I have no *specific* knowledge about *this* particular issue, and am merely explaining how wiki maintenance works *in general*.
Indiscriminate creation of wiki pages of varying quality & usefulness does not make a better wiki, any more than allowing graffiti inside an art gallery makes a better art resource.
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2010-09-28
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OP: Woops I forgot you actually resolved in finding the page.
As far where the page went it was probably added as a redirect to another page and that page then changed drastically.EDIT2:
http://wiki.maemo.org/index.php?titl...ks&oldid=12431
April 10, 2009 by Allnameswereout
Looks not much different from the current revision. Also in the wiki history it lists the page creation as an import from the Internet Tablet Talk wiki. So it appears that you were remembering from the old wiki... >.>
As far as the OP goes:http://internettablettalk.com/wiki/index.php/Internet:Microb_Hardware_Key_bindings
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http://www.talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=100884&postcount=11
Which for posterity is as follows:
Step 1
change:
Choose A or B:
*OPTIONAL* (option A): Use the middle button to scroll forward add the line:
<handler event="keypress" keycode="VK_RETURN" command="cmd_movePageDown"/>
<handler event="keypress" keycode="VK_RETURN" command="cmd_scrollPageDown"/>
^x (CTRL+X) to exit
^y (CTRL+Y) to save file
Step 5
change:
^x (CTRL+X) to exit
^y (CTRL+Y) to save file
Step 8
Open MicroB
{ https://sites.google.com/site/maemo4repo/home }
Last edited by linuxeventually; 2010-09-25 at 04:07. Reason: forgot to re-read the original post