[PD] pdpedia

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

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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