I will be updating the HCL, as part of my job.
I could take the raw data from smolt and put it into the HCL.
What I am more concerned with is;
1) ease of use for users
2) the rating system.
It'd be nice if we could have a rating system where all they had to do
was click on a star. Five stars per hardware, with the first star
being the one on the left and the lowest in rating. The fifth star
would be the right most star, and highest in rating. So if a user
clicks on the fifth star, then it works no trouble. As more people
rate it, it average itself out. So if one user rates it a 5 and
another rates it a 1, then that 2.5.
Maybe, for ease of use for the user, a wysiwyg editor. We could embed
a template specifically designed for the HCL, to be in the wysiwyg
editor. This would also go a long way to make things easier.
Are these things available for mediawiki? I The wysiwyg editor is
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WYSIWYG_editor
And so is the star rating system I was referring to
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AjaxRatingScript
Respectfully
Jon Rocker
On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 10:19, Kay Schenk
On 01/02/2010 08:40 PM, Rajko M. wrote:
On Saturday 02 January 2010 11:18:48 Kay Schenk wrote:
On 01/01/2010 04:04 PM, Rajko M. wrote:
On Friday 01 January 2010 17:58:02 Rajko M. wrote:
I posted some thoughts and ideas on the forum. ... http://forums.opensuse.org/general-chit-chat/429706-hardware-doesnt-work- difficult-post2096817.html#post2096817
Well, there are probably some good ideas here. I don't know much about "smolt" and I did, in fact, brave the wiki to add hardware items for my latest setup. About the only major difficulty I remember having was how to do the fun little check/no check graphic.
:) Very important for that table.
This comment aside, if we could come up with some forms driven interface for end-users that would do some automatic formatting to put items in the current table, this would probably help considerably. I don't know what types of "back-end collection" mechanisms are available for the wiki.
It is possible to some extent. On a new wiki we have 2 extensions that can help, but they are not really form generators. They are more aid that will preload page that is used as template, but template must be well documented so that user has no doubt how to fill in required fields.
OK...I am a MediaWiki novice for the most part, but happy to investigate.
The InputBox has few functions which can be selected with "type=" switch. On http://wiki.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Sandbox you can see "type=comment", which is suitable as help to create new entry on existing page.
The MultiBoilerplate is another one, but I got no time to test it.
Third that I found following your idea about forms is http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Form . It is GPLed, maintained, but it is in experimental status, so it is not yet suitable for our wiki.
hmmm...OK, please let us know what you discover. :)
I'll download it and test on my local instance of MediaWiki. It is interesting how it can be used and find bugs that may prevent use in the wiki.
I find the indigenous "smolts" site VERY unfriendly and unusable.
It is fine for developers, which is the main reason they put it on line. For users there is needed more work on user interface and probably API, so that smolt client can do more and save users trip to the server.
What we have seems a lot more straightforward. I will be happy to investigate alternative collection modes if someone steers me in the right direction.
Right now without any improvements Smolt can be used to store user profile, there is not much more that I can think of, but as mentioned we should think how to create workflow without superficial manual interventions.
Some kind of interface that will allow web sites to pull in profile data would be good to have, something like RSS feed, so that users can see actual profile without visiting smolts server.
There are few other Linux hardware databases that can be taken in consideration.
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