New here! Would like to do wiki things

[henrebotha]

Hi!

I stumbled across the wiki and thence the forum. I would like to contribute to the wiki. There's a ton of good information there but also some simple issues I can easily fix (like "external" links that are actually supposed to link to internal pages but probably got overlooked in a newwiki.arcadecontrols.com → wiki.arcadecontrols.com migration).

I live in Haarlem, I am a software developer, and I like to design and build arcade-ish controllers for home use in everything from fighting games to 3D RPGs.

[PL1]

Welcome to BYOAC.  PM sent with your new wiki login info.   

I stumbled across the wiki and thence the forum. I would like to contribute to the wiki. There's a ton of good information there but also some simple issues I can easily fix (like "external" links that are actually supposed to link to internal pages but probably got overlooked in a newwiki.arcadecontrols.com → wiki.arcadecontrols.com migration).

Most of the "external" links you're referring to point to a subsection on a page.

For example, the "external" link . . .

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[http://wiki.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?title=Joysticks#Analog_Joysticks analog joystick/yoke]
. . . points to the "#Analog_Joysticks" subsection on the "Joysticks" page and the link text on the referring page is "analog joystick".  (Looks and works great as long as the domain is right.)

Compare that to the "internal" link . . .

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[[Wiring#IEC_Fused_Power_Inlet_with_a_Lighted_Switch]]
. . . that links to the "IEC_Fused_Power_Inlet_with_a_Lighted_Switch" subsection of the "Wiring" page (Good so far . . .) with the link text "Wiring#IEC_Fused_Power_Inlet_with_a_Lighted_Switch" on the referring page. (. . . and that's where it goes bad.  )

Is there a way to change the link text on the referring page for the second code example?
- Looked several years ago, but didn't find any examples of how to do that.

The not so great news is that we've been waiting six years for Saint to
  1.) fix the wiki configuration so we can upload image files, and
  2.) hopefully restore the wikis to their original domains since doing that will automatically fix the thousands upon thousands of forum posts that linked to pages and images on both the original wiki and the new one.  (see quote below)

So far, there have only been three minor text updates to the wiki since they were restored from the backups six years ago.  Two by Felsir and one by me.
- I have copies of all three so they would be easy to redo if Saint ever does put the wikis back on the original domains.
- Might not be a bad idea to keep a running list of any changes you make in the unlikely case Saint ever does get around to doing #2.

Related quote from a previously public BUG REPORTS thread about the wikis:

The problem is that Saint accidently restored the old and new wikis to the wrong domains.   
- The old wiki should have been restored to the "wiki" domain instead of the "oldwiki" domain.
- The new wiki should have been restored to the "newwiki" domain instead of the "wiki" domain.

Once Saint moves the wikis back to the original domains, all of the "newwiki" links and embedded images will work again.   

For now, it looks like only embedded images from the old wiki might still work since all of those images were transferred to the new wiki.   

The old wiki didn't use ".php", so those page links will only work if you change the "wiki" part of the URL to "index.php".
    Old style page link format (returns a 404 error)
http://wiki.arcadecontrols.com/wiki/Restoration
    New style page link format
http://wiki.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/Restoration

Scott

[henrebotha]

So in short, don't mess with "bad" links pointing to newwiki or wiki? That's fair.

[CheffoJeffo]

Scott, you are a trooper! That saint's a slacker.

[PL1]

So in short, don't mess with "bad" links pointing to newwiki or wiki? That's fair.

Actually, just figured out how to do an "internal" link with alternate text so it displays on the page like the "bad" links do.

You can change a "bad" link like this . . .

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[http://newwiki.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?title=Light_Guns#Lightgun_Games_List Lightgun Games]
. . . to a good link like this.

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[[Light_Guns#Lightgun_Games_List | Lightgun Games]]<br>

Don't know how I missed this formatting syntax before.   

Open season on "bad" links!   


Scott