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Richard: I have cc’d this to Max. Max: Your Wiki site looks really great and could become a very valuable community documentation resource. What we’re thinking, in this thread, is that as a long term investment it would be more optimum to host the wiki on a site that has no (or much less) adver

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William Prothero wrote: > Richard: > Tnx for the info on the ad blockers. > > Thinking for the long run, though, getting a wiki on a site without > so many ads, in a version of Wiki that can be exported easily to > another site, seems a good idea. Agreed. Feel free to discuss it with the Max, t

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Richard: Tnx for the info on the ad blockers. Thinking for the long run, though, getting a wiki on a site without so many ads, in a version of Wiki that can be exported easily to another site, seems a good idea. Best, Bill > On Oct 13, 2015, at 11:06 PM, Richard Gaskin > wrote: > > William

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Firefox and Adblock Plus, no ads. 2015-10-14 9:06 GMT+03:00 Richard Gaskin : > William Prothero wrote: > > > I use Safari because it synchronizes all my bookmarks between my > > devices. I know there is a Firefox plugin that does that. I used > > it, but there was an issue I can't remember when I

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William Prothero wrote: > I use Safari because it synchronizes all my bookmarks between my > devices. I know there is a Firefox plugin that does that. I used > it, but there was an issue I can't remember when I upgraded to > Yosemite, so I switched. Firefox is a very good option, tho. There's a

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Richard, That sounds like a great offer! I think it would be a much more friendly site if we didn't have to download all the ads. I use Safari because it synchronizes all my bookmarks between my devices. I know there is a Firefox plugin that does that. I used it, but there was an issue I can'

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Kay C Lan wrote: > What advertising? > > https://www.dropbox.com/s/vqfr5p2acpomkeh/lcwiki.png?dl=0 > > Firefox + the NoScript addon > > https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/noscript/ > > Wouldn't visit any website without it :-) Amen. NoScript is great not only for web sites whose owne

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On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 8:31 AM, William Prothero wrote: > Only downside is all the massive advertising. What advertising? https://www.dropbox.com/s/vqfr5p2acpomkeh/lcwiki.png?dl=0 Firefox + the NoScript addon https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/noscript/ Wouldn't visit any websi

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On 10/13/2015 12:29 PM, Heather Laine wrote: The lessons site is not the be-all and end-all. A users wiki might be a good thing to add to it. However, I am also in favour of improving what we have, rather than attempting to replace it wholesale because its not perfect. A great way to ensure th

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Only downside is all the massive advertising. I guess, for free, we can put up with it. “Beggards can’t be choosers”. One thing, thinking ahead, is how hard it will be to export and transfer the content to a different wiki site when we want to. Bill > On Oct 13, 2015, at 3:42 PM, Richard Gaski

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Richard: Just what I was thinking! Great resource. Bill > On Oct 13, 2015, at 3:42 PM, Richard Gaskin > wrote: > > William Prothero wrote: > > I’m wondering if a possible approach might be if one of the users set > > up a wiki as a trial, then if it became popular and useful, it could > > be in

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William Prothero wrote: > I’m wondering if a possible approach might be if one of the users set > up a wiki as a trial, then if it became popular and useful, it could > be incorporated into the lessons and livecode site? A wiki is a > pretty different beast from the lessons site. It’s pretty easy

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Heather: That’s a great suggestion. What do you think about some kind of finer grain help, but task rather than project oriented? Like the headings examples in my previous posting? I agree that you don’t want to fragment and throw out what is already working and just create another “mouth to f

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The lessons site is not the be-all and end-all. A users wiki might be a good thing to add to it. However, I am also in favour of improving what we have, rather than attempting to replace it wholesale because its not perfect. A great way to ensure this happens is to request a lesson on any partic

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Heather: I use the lessons.runrev site a lot. It has loads of good information. One limitation though, is that it takes us through the beginning steps, but often stops at the very useful stage. For example, the database lesson is great for local databases, but is not practical for server based d

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Hi, William Prothero, Your list would make a great addition to the existing wiki pages. Mike asked about asking LiveCode to host a wiki. I think it would be better to host the wiki on Wikia.com and not suck up bandwidth and energy from the folks at LiveCode. The wikia system is robust and comes

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Michael Doub wrote: Would it be reasonable to ask Livecode to host a wiki site for documentation and examples? I kind of like the idea of having the ability to add information or update when I see something that it out of date or unclear. The problem is always organization and searching. This

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Folks...an awful lot of this "cookbook" type material is available at http://lessons.runrev.com There is a comments facility, and when this was originally set up we invited community contributions. A number of people did contribute but for some considerable time no

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Would it be reasonable to ask Livecode to host a wiki site for documentation and examples? I kind of like the idea of having the ability to add information or update when I see something that it out of date or unclear. The problem is always organization and searching. This would still need

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Richard: Thanks for the info. I think a task-driven cookbook does really need to be community developed. There are so many emails here that ask “how do I do xyz?” or “xyz won’t work… why?” Compiling these, with dates and keywords, and a user commenting facility, would go a long way toward accomp

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William Prothero wrote: I said we need a dictionary focussed on tasks, not on commands, but obviously we need both. I know Richard has been leading a group taking this on. Richard, is this happening? The focus of an API reference like the LiveCode Dictionary will always have the language toke

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Steven, Thank you. That seems quite fair. Regards, Bill William Prothero http://es.earthednet.org > On Oct 10, 2015, at 4:23 AM, "Steven Crighton" > wrote: > > Thanks for your messages on the new learning course. > > We are constantly working on improving our learning materials. Create it V1

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Thanks for your messages on the new learning course. We are constantly working on improving our learning materials. Create it V1 was a good start but as you pointed out it did come with some issues. With this version we have decided to focus our efforts by creating a course with less apps but gre

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I honestly am not sure what LC are thinking or where they get their marketing advice but I am failing to see a positive in this unless you are completely new to the platform. Why? Simply because if what has happened with the create-it course is indicative of how LC does things one has to be con

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Added comment: I said we need a dictionary focussed on tasks, not on commands, but obviously we need both. I know Richard has been leading a group taking this on. Richard, is this happening? Bill > On Oct 9, 2015, at 4:13 PM, William Prothero wrote: > > Folks: > I just got the notice of a new