Magazines on the wiki

[steve]

I am sure I could write one in BASIC.

Er, what is a mediawiki parser.

[AMSDOS]

Googling and attracting visitors to the wiki will not have much better results, I think, if the mags are in the downloads section instead of the wiki.

And it's different posting specific pages related to an article, rather than a whole magazine - I can accept that.

Is it just certain magazines which will be removed or will certain magazines remain?

Some of the really early ACUs (or Amstrad CPC464 User) contains some interesting programming articles, some of them I've linked to their respected languages after I noticed someone was doing that with one of the other languages, which just make the page more informative or to just give people an idea on what to expect. There is perhaps some more work which could be done with this, though I'm unsure since some of those ACU articles on some of the languages are a bit extensive, to what extent having the whole lot there with that language I'm unsure what that would be doing (if anything).

[Gryzor]

For the time being everything stays, I think, because it's not that simple to delete things in Mediawiki. When you 'delete' a file or a page, that file or page is still there and the only thing that happens is that a new version of it (in this case: blank) is created. Mediawiki keeps every single revision of every file or page, even if deleted, so that you can revert the deletion or see its history.


There are a few ways to really clean up, but haven't tried them yet...


@Steve: Oh, just something to pull pages from the db (sure, BASIC would do, it's just 200MB compressed) and output them in a web browser-readable format

[Border_7]

I think Axelay has 1 more Australian CWTA magazine to upload and that's it. And this leads me to asking you if you can you create another category so I can upload the Australian CWTA magazines in PDF format? Perhaps "CWTA - Australia" is fitting?


I'm assuming you will be creating a standard CWTA one for the English version?


Cheers

[Bryce]

There are a few ways to really clean up, but haven't tried them yet...

Just make sure you have a backup before you try any of them!

Bryce.

[AMSDOS]

For the time being everything stays, I think, because it's not that simple to delete things in Mediawiki. When you 'delete' a file or a page, that file or page is still there and the only thing that happens is that a new version of it (in this case: blank) is created. Mediawiki keeps every single revision of every file or page, even if deleted, so that you can revert the deletion or see its history.

Sounds like a dodgy Word Document with an Photo Image in it. You can move it around, resize, etc & save the file, but the darn thing saves the file with the Original photo detail within it, so of course if some sends you a word file with Photo in it, you can click on that, copy it & paste it in Paint (or whatever) and the original is restored. That is unless you get someone like me who has taken the detail out of the image.

[Bryce]

Or simply do a "Save as" in Word and give it a new name, that purges all the old stuff out too

Bryce.

[Gryzor]

Just make sure you have a backup before you try any of them!

Bryce.

I would probably try it on a secondary installation (if I ever get around to creating one), or on a test file. Mediawiki has an internal function (a maintenance script, actually) to purge archived stuff, but I'd have to delete hundreds of files one by one and then try it, and this is more than I can take.

I think Axelay has 1 more Australian CWTA magazine to upload and that's it. And this leads me to asking you if you can you create another category so I can upload the Australian CWTA magazines in PDF format? Perhaps "CWTA - Australia" is fitting?


I'm assuming you will be creating a standard CWTA one for the English version?

Here you go! http://www.cpcwiki.eu/forum/index.php?action=dldir;sa=list;id=13 . And yes, there'll be a separate section for the UK edition of course. Thanks beforehand

Sounds like a dodgy Word Document with an Photo Image in it. You can move it around, resize, etc & save the file, but the darn thing saves the file with the Original photo detail within it, so of course if some sends you a word file with Photo in it, you can click on that, copy it & paste it in Paint (or whatever) and the original is restored. That is unless you get someone like me who has taken the detail out of the image.

There's a logic behind it, same as with Word; the fact that you might want to change something forking from a previous version. Also, it's a great anti-vandalism measure - imagine if a cetain ex-member started deleting stuff! (Also, Word 2007 and newer have the 'compress images' option that really cut down photos to what you have turned them into).

[Border_7]

Cool - yep saw that. I'll start the PDF process and up them gradually over the next little while.... there isn't too many of them (not like CWTA - UK) 

[Ygdrazil]

Hi Gryzor


Yes please leave be ... maybe sometime in the future the capacity problem will be solved!


/Ygdrazil

For the time being everything stays, I think, because it's not that simple to delete things in Mediawiki. When you 'delete' a file or a page, that file or page is still there and the only thing that happens is that a new version of it (in this case: blank) is created. Mediawiki keeps every single revision of every file or page, even if deleted, so that you can revert the deletion or see its history.


There are a few ways to really clean up, but haven't tried them yet...


@Steve: Oh, just something to pull pages from the db (sure, BASIC would do, it's just 200MB compressed) and output them in a web browser-readable format

[rpalmer]

TFM,

When I finally get the CPC browser working and my TCP/IP interface up, may the whole lot can run on a dedicated CPC...would just the beginning of something wonderful 

rpalmer

[rpalmer]

sorry guys, i meant to refer to gryzor

[Border_7]

OK - well I put one up (Nov 1986). They are all in the 22-44mb range - bigger than the TAU mags (more pages, more color, bigger sized pages too).


Hope that's ok?

[AMSDOS]

OK - well I put one up (Nov 1986). They are all in the 22-44mb range - bigger than the TAU mags (more pages, more color, bigger sized pages too).


Hope that's ok?

I downloaded the October 1986 issue which looks interesting. Had to rotate the pages though wasn't a hassle, noticed the size of the PDF increased though once I saved it again though. Has some interesting content, was that the 1st Issue? Pretty good if that was Issue 1. Wonder if anyone made Pilot a compilable language? It's a pretty simple language made for Educational purposes, though it's good they had some Pilot examples in it.

[Border_7]

I downloaded the October 1986 issue which looks interesting. Had to rotate the pages though wasn't a hassle, noticed the size of the PDF increased though once I saved it again though. Has some interesting content, was that the 1st Issue? Pretty good if that was Issue 1. Wonder if anyone made Pilot a compilable language? It's a pretty simple language made for Educational purposes, though it's good they had some Pilot examples in it.

Yeah the doPDF program creates them sideways like that, but yeah - easy enough to rotate 90 deg to the right. It wasn't the first one, third I think... August and Sept came before. Sadly I dont not have either of them... cpcmaniaco has the first edition. If he's out there and hears this - want to PDF it buddy and upload???


The size increased after you saved it?

[AMSDOS]

The size increased after you saved it?

I just meant after I rotated all the pages and saved it, it was larger. Probably just my Mac since everything coming out of it ends up larger.