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This is the wiki home of an arbitrary number of projects: == Being the wiki home of Steve Killen, ==
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[[A D&D Campaign Joournal]] A place to collaborate in an arbitrary number of projects.

 . [[dnd|Various D&D stuffs]]
 . [[Hiking|Hiking/Camping]]
 . [[Software]]
 . [[Games]]
 . [[Entertainment]]
 . [[HomeBrewing]]
 . [[Minecraft]]

Greetings and welcome! I invite you to participate to whatever extent you feel comfortable in this experiment of mine. The [[About]] page will tell you what's going on, including how to edit.

-- SteveKillen

==== Admin to-do (requests taken here!) ====
 * Style footnotes
 * Linking to "tel:" URIs doesn't work. I think this could be fixed by changing the value of `url_schemas`, as described in HelpOnConfiguration
 * Can someone make a favicon? Here's a first attempt: {{attachment:BtTempleton/CalefactionFavicon.png}}
 * Fix your logo css -- ClintonEbadi
  * Inserting manual newlines to avoid covering page content with the logo is a sign of bad style ;) If you want to keep the logo floating into the content area you have a few options... (installing firebug makes it pretty easy to mess around with the css in the browser with immediate effect welcome to the future).
  * Add `clear: left` to either `#page` or `#content`. `#page` is uglier: the page border also moves below the logo. In either case there is some whitespace to the right of the logo.
  * Add `clear: left` to at least `div.contents`. This would solve the immediate issue of obscured TOC lines, but then what about e.g. the horizontal rule below a heading and other cases?
  * Add `clear: left` to `#content div`. I'm not sure what the overall effect of that would be, but it ''would'' make most things that need to clear around the image do so.
  * Another suggestion: Move the logo (and search box?) into the sidebar, something like [[http://communitywiki.org/|CommunityWiki's]] layout.
 * Hierarchy is anti-wiki :( Is there some context in which you'd want to discuss a non-software-related "generic window manager"? If not, why the rename? Subpages may make sense for self-contained projects but they inhibit easy linking
  * There is no such thing as antiwiki except nonwiki. Categorizing it exposes the upstream trees to the user for easy viewing; is this not also a goal of wiki, of easily interrelating topics? Also, I guess I should reply to this comment on your user page instead of below if hierarchy is antiwiki :)
  * "Easily interrelating topics" requires easy linking which subpages break. I can no longer just smash words together and hope for a link to a relevant page; instead I have to make an explicit choice to make a link, remember which section the page was arbitrarily placed into (is GnuGo in Games or in Software?) and decide on the link text (since Section/SubSection/ActualPage isn't so good), and in the end I might as well be writing plain HTML. This problem was solved in 1996 with the category system -- for the GWM page, for instance, just add "CategorySoftware" to the bottom. Then looking at backlinks for CategorySoftware shows all software-related pages, and the page text can contain a manually-maintained index. (Some wikis define a special link type for category-membership links.) This provides a topic-based indexing system while conserving easy linking and permitting pages to belong to multiple topics. See [[http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiCategories|WikiWiki:WikiCategories]].
 * Heaven forbid you should be required to put thought into the organization of a body of data. The many-to-one/one-to-many argument holds some weight, though. Feel free to rename any pages you see fit.

Being the wiki home of Steve Killen,

or

A place to collaborate in an arbitrary number of projects.

Greetings and welcome! I invite you to participate to whatever extent you feel comfortable in this experiment of mine. The About page will tell you what's going on, including how to edit.

-- SteveKillen

Admin to-do (requests taken here!)

  • Style footnotes
  • Linking to "tel:" URIs doesn't work. I think this could be fixed by changing the value of url_schemas, as described in HelpOnConfiguration

  • Can someone make a favicon? Here's a first attempt: BtTempleton/CalefactionFavicon.png

  • Fix your logo css -- ClintonEbadi

    • Inserting manual newlines to avoid covering page content with the logo is a sign of bad style ;) If you want to keep the logo floating into the content area you have a few options... (installing firebug makes it pretty easy to mess around with the css in the browser with immediate effect welcome to the future).

    • Add clear: left to either #page or #content. #page is uglier: the page border also moves below the logo. In either case there is some whitespace to the right of the logo.

    • Add clear: left to at least div.contents. This would solve the immediate issue of obscured TOC lines, but then what about e.g. the horizontal rule below a heading and other cases?

    • Add clear: left to #content div. I'm not sure what the overall effect of that would be, but it would make most things that need to clear around the image do so.

    • Another suggestion: Move the logo (and search box?) into the sidebar, something like CommunityWiki's layout.

  • Hierarchy is anti-wiki :( Is there some context in which you'd want to discuss a non-software-related "generic window manager"? If not, why the rename? Subpages may make sense for self-contained projects but they inhibit easy linking

    • There is no such thing as antiwiki except nonwiki. Categorizing it exposes the upstream trees to the user for easy viewing; is this not also a goal of wiki, of easily interrelating topics? Also, I guess I should reply to this comment on your user page instead of below if hierarchy is antiwiki :)

    • "Easily interrelating topics" requires easy linking which subpages break. I can no longer just smash words together and hope for a link to a relevant page; instead I have to make an explicit choice to make a link, remember which section the page was arbitrarily placed into (is GnuGo in Games or in Software?) and decide on the link text (since Section/SubSection/ActualPage isn't so good), and in the end I might as well be writing plain HTML. This problem was solved in 1996 with the category system -- for the GWM page, for instance, just add "CategorySoftware" to the bottom. Then looking at backlinks for CategorySoftware shows all software-related pages, and the page text can contain a manually-maintained index. (Some wikis define a special link type for category-membership links.) This provides a topic-based indexing system while conserving easy linking and permitting pages to belong to multiple topics. See WikiWiki:WikiCategories.

  • Heaven forbid you should be required to put thought into the organization of a body of data. The many-to-one/one-to-many argument holds some weight, though. Feel free to rename any pages you see fit.

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