[PD] pdpedia

[Luke Iannini (pd)]

Another hopefully extensible suggestion: larger libraries with a cohesive
purpose should get a standard boilerplate message saying something like
"Cyclone is a library for creating Max compatible patches.  The closest
pd-native equivalent of this object is [until]." or "GEM is a library for 3D
graphics.  For an overview of GEM, see <here>".  The Cyclone example is sort
of an extension of the "deprecated by" suggestion: in general, it would be
nice to direct users to the "right object".
Luke


On 10/1/07, Luke Iannini (pd) <lukexipd at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hey, this is really cool!  Great work!  I am committed to contributing as
> much as I can.
>
>
> It would be great to take a really well known object and do a "reference
> article" to somewhat establish quality standards for the articles, and give
> lazy editors a template to work from when cleaning up the dumped text.
>
> A "see also"/"related" section would be great, like [append]: see also:
> [list]. (maybe the categories take care of this)
>
> Also, a standard for writing "deprecated by" would be really helpful for
> old objects.
>
>
> big cheers
> Luke
>
> On 10/1/07, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at eds.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Yay!!
> >
> > Everyone dump your content into it, it is a ready recepticle!
> >
> > :D
> >
> > .hc
> >
> > On Oct 1, 2007, at 8:54 PM, marius schebella wrote:
> >
> > > hey,
> > >
> > > pdpedia is online!
> > >
> > > It is a child of the second pdconv in montreal and many people helped
> > > putting it up, hans and I finally did the import of the objects and
> > > the
> > > main layout for the site. I hope you will like it.
> > > At the moment we still use the address http://wiki.puredata.info,
> > > but it
> > > should be www.pdpedia.org in the next days/weeks. (at the moment
> > > pdpedia.org is linked to a test site...)
> > > The general idea of the project is to have better documentation of Pd,
> > > mainly - but not only - its objectclasses. I hope it will become a
> > > useful tool to search for objects and ways how to do things in Pd. the
> > > search field should really work as a "how do I..."
> > > all objects have some basic information like a short description,
> > > library, categories, ... but we also dumped text that we found in the
> > > helppatches to give a little help for filling in content. that is the
> > > goal, to get many people involved in sharing knowledge about how to
> > > use
> > > the objects, document features, and so on.
> > > at the moment we are running without authorization, everybody can edit
> > > and create pages (a wiki page is created by putting two brackets
> > > around
> > > a word like [[this]] then you click on that link and can edit the new
> > > page...). If we get in troubles with spam we will have to restrict
> > > editing only for registered users, but everybody can register, feel
> > > free
> > > to create an account.
> > > if you see links like Template:blablabla in the beginning: that is a
> > > global wiki variable. we use it for all information that is
> > > presented on
> > > more than one page. for example the URL for a library. just fill in
> > > the
> > > content of the variable and it will show up on all pages.
> > > I don't want to write to much, so I stop, plese send feedback.
> > >
> > > marius.
> > >
> > > ps: and yes, there are some bugs still.
> > >
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