Wiki Announcements

[steeb]

All Authors and Contributors please refer to this thread for future 'best practice' updates and notifications of changes made to the wiki engine such as new markup options.

Please do not post to this thread so that it remains clean and functional for reference purposes!

[McBainUK]

As requested, wiki should now allow uploads of .7z and .rar files of up to 10mb (same as .zip files).

[steeb]

Dear all,

to try and keep some consistency to any links in the new wiki

http://www.nextpvr.com/nwiki/pmwiki.php

when using internal links (i.e. referring to another page within the wiki) a standard link is great, (keeps the browser navigation in the same window).

If pointing to external links i.e. wikipedia etc it would be good to have these open a new browser window using the

Code:

%newwin%

syntax keeping the initial navigation window still on the wiki.

cheers all

steeb

[steeb]

Dear all,

profiles page now set up here should any authors/contributors wish to use it (not obligatory )

cheers

steeb

[steeb]

Dear all,

following on from post 3 above on this same thread.

When providing a link to another page within the wiki please use the short form syntax i.e. use

Code:

[[Configuration/ChannelLogos|Channel Logos]]

and not the full URL. So not this

Code:

[[http://www.nextpvr.com/nwiki/pmwiki.php?n=Configuration.ChannelLogos|Channel Logos]]

this will ensure that if the domain name changes for the wiki that all internal links will remain unbroken.

cheers

steeb

[steeb]

Dear all,

I should have mentioned this some time ago but I got a bit busy

On this page:

http://www.nextpvr.com/nwiki/pmwiki.php?...alledParts

I inserted an anchor for the data directory as it appears to be quite commonly referred to.

The syntax to use within any wiki page link is:

[[QuickStart.InstalledParts#datadirectory|Data Directory]]

after the pipe | of course is what you choose to call it. Could be "data directory"

all this does is take someone straight to that part of the page without having to scroll.

cheers

steeb

[mvallevand]

But if you would like to .... any screenshots used for plugins etc that work towards the default resolution of a 1024 width monitor it would help. Most stuff that we have done works on this basis.

With sidebars etc a safe maximum width size for an image is 800px

i.e. before uploading a screenshot if you can keep it within 800px width it would be most appreciated.

steeb, McBainUK provided a better solution then shrinking the source image to a potentially unreadable size. Using thumbs on the wiki as follows you can meet the wiki design constraint

Code:

(:thumb image1.jpg width=600px :)

(:thumb sd1b.jpg :)

and then a click on the image provides a zoom to full size.

Martin

[McBainUK]

Uses the ThumbnailLinkToImage pmwiki plugin. It's simple but effective: http://www.nextpvr.com/nwiki/pmwiki.php?...bleRecipes