On Oct 1, 2007, at 11:59 PM, Luke Iannini (pd) wrote:

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@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@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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