Seems straightforward based on https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgSMTP
I’ll set it up when I work on Search sometime this week
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Had no idea this existed. We don’t link to it from the Laser wiki. https://dallasmakerspace.org/wiki/Tools#Laser
We do link to this Tool Status Board, https://dallasmakerspace.org/cgi-bin/toolstatus.cgiwhich is essentially useless to Laser as it does not contain the new lasers or the rotary engraver and we can only select a few status options that convey limited info. I have sent @LisaSelk messages to make changes, to no avail.
Would much rather have a wiki solution that Team Laser could update, update with useful info, and push notifications to our members. I don’t know if that wiki/Tools page would be the place or the wiki/Laser page.
EDIT: I fixed our uncategorized page. Thanks!
It’s available from a link on the main wiki page.
We link to the Laser Committee from it, however. And to the Laser committee documentation. And to the laser camera. Like I said … trying to be one central clearing point.
As for the Tool Status Board … yes. We need a better solution. Mike Churchill and I are going to try to fix the structure. He knows how to do it. I have permission to do it. Lisa has both but has apparently been offline for a very long time.
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I was just thinking that… yes, it needs to be able to link to a specific tool from the url and have room in there to list any rules for using it.
I have a later-this-year idea I’ve been wanting to integrate with the new MakerManager. Basically being a inventory management / tool database, with specific inputs and data from all of our tools. Add in some functionality of the Tool Status Board, and allow members of a committee to add tools, and done! It would basically be a cumulation of the Assets spreadsheet the BoD asked for, Chris’s Expansion sheet, the tool wiki and the tool status board.
I’m still not feeling well, I’ll type more about it soon.
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I couldn’t decide if I wanted to like this post or not … I Love the first part … the second part, I hope you get feeling better
Ummm … do you mean the tool status board, or the Tools list?
The tool status board is too rudimentary to do that. The Tools list wiki page could easily do that - if there were links to use.
I’m talking about the tools list wiki page. Right now you can’t link to specific tool.
Take a look at the rules page … the index at the top is what I want every tool listed in that is on the page
https://dallasmakerspace.org/wiki/Rules_and_Policies
Yes you can, if the tool has its own page. Or even a header/bookmark on a page.
Go look at the Creative Arts section. Scroll about halfway through the committee tools. Click on the name Babylock_Ellure_ESL (3rd column). It takes you to a detailed page about that one tool.
This can be accomplished with anything that has a wiki-formatted heading because that generates a bookmark link to it.
I’m good with that but then every tool will need a separate page. As long as that isn’t a problem, sounds good. It might help finding it a search as well once we get that working well.
If there was a way to not push “minor changes” and spam our members when we fix typos, etc, that would be wonderful.
(tries not to look too needy.)
Actually, that is a setting you control in your preferences. The preferences link is up at the top right.
Separate page would help searching … but a separate page is not required.
Using the pre-formatted headers on the wiki will generate bookmark links for every header. As long as someone uses a header for a tool, then it has a bookmark.
Here’s an example using Bridgeport mill. It has a header section. Anything, including the tool list, could link to it using that bookmark.
EDIT: The Tools list is already linked to that bookmark, even though the Bridgeport isn’t on a separate page.
Got it. This thread - and the people in it - has been incredibly helpful today.
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I think I enabled emails? I’m not sure how to test it, aparently if someone edits my user page it’ll trigger an email? Can someone edit https://dallasmakerspace.org/wiki/User:Clone1018 and just add something?
Done. I’m also going to mark something as a minor edit so you can see if that one notifies you.
Ok I added a few thing
Thank you very much Luke … this is great …
Can we get the icons for the templates? It seems some of the templates are half installed or something? I’m not sure.
List of Templates: https://dallasmakerspace.org/wiki/Special:AllPages?from=&to=&namespace=10
I’m wanting to get together a class on using the wiki
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We have a sandbox that we can play with the wiki in and try things out. It isn’t indexed or can be searched for.
I’m toying with the idea of redesigning the tools page
First, let me say it is a work in progress and it is just some interesting ideas. Second, it doesn’t work on mobile very well yet but I am working on that. So, use a computer.
First the original tools page: https://dallasmakerspace.org/wiki/Tools
You will notice at the top is a list of committee areas but not much else as far as index.
I am just playing with the 3d fab tools right now…
I have made several optional ways of displaying things for different items but check it out
Oh and it has made up text for place holders …
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