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Title: Pinball entry
Post by: PL1 on August 17, 2012, 05:05:41 pm
Just noticed that the Pinball (http://wiki.arcadecontrols.com/wiki/Pinball) entry is horribly outdated.  (Multiple dead links, etc.)

Does anybody have any objections/improvements to the following changes:

I'm thinking about choosing a better screenshot (a 4:3 table with a backglass background) and updating the text as shown below, broken out in the quote boxes for the various sections:
 
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Visual Pinball/PinMAME
Visual Pinball (http://www.vpforums.org/index.php?) (VP) is a playfield pinball simulator. It comes with a editor, so you can design your own tables. VP has a lots of well created layouts of popular pinball tables from the real world.

Visual PinMAME (http://www.vpforums.org/index.php?) (VPM) is a pinball emulator. When run in conjunction with VP, VPM allows you to design and play a table that will use the actual ROM images from pinball tables. These ROM images have the table logic, sounds, and dot-matrix display animations.

The latest VP/VPM releases are all on www.vpforums.org (http://www.vpforums.org), so the two links above direct to that homepage. (Current wiki link targets are no longer updated.)


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How to install the software.

On VPForums.org (http://www.vpforums.org/index.php?), there is a "Getting Started" pulldown menu in the upper left of the page.

Download the Installation Guide, VP Installer, and all the Essential Files from the pulldown menu.

Follow the Installation Guide step-by-step.  Print a copy or have it on a nearby laptop.

VP Installer will install and configure Visual Pinball 8 (the updated VP9 physics engine can cause unusual motion in VP8 or earlier tables), Visual Pinball 9, and Visual PinMAME.

After running the VP Installer, the Installation Guide will direct you to install the latest version of VP and VPM. 

If you encounter problems during the install, there is a Installation Support Forum (http://www.vpforums.org/index.php?showforum=53) on VPForums.org.


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How to run VP on my cabinet.

You need a wrapper or cab-friendly Front-End to get this to run in your cabinet.  Visual Pinball is not cab-friendly by itself.


Hyperspin/Hyperpin links here. (not sure if hyperspin works as FE for VP/FP)

Other cab-friendly FE programs?

Shouldn't the VP/FP FE programs be listed together below the FP section?

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Future Pinball
Future Pinball (http://www.futurepinball.com/) (FP) is the next generation Pinball Development System.  It was written by the same people behind Visual Pinball.

It allows you to design and play your very own pinball simulation in True real time 3D.  It uses Advanced Physics to provide the best possible Simulation of a true to life pinball machine.

Future Pinball does not utilize VPM, nor does it have the option to use pinball table ROMs.  Any information that would normally be stored in the ROM is written into the script or stored in a library file.


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How to run FP on a cabinet.

You should download the lastest version (from 1.5.2 or above) to get this to work on your cabinet, if you are using the gameport. But if you use a keyboard hack, it may lose focus at the startup, so you need a wrapper. This wrapper should also work for cabinets, using gameport.

The wrapper link is dead, not quite sure what point the rest is trying to get across.

Combine this section with the VP FE section above?

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About Sticky Keys

Future Pinball allows table creators to use two special keys that can be fully remapped by the application.

But some table authors have overlooked this feature, and used stickykeys instead.  This is generally not good for use on a cabinet, and thus must be fixed.  It is often very easy to fix these by just looking at the script.  Find the keyname (like "h"), and change it.  Some creators have even defined these stickykeys at the top of the script, so you only need to change it once.

Is this section needed?  In-depth troubleshooting like this might be better refered to VPForums.

Is stickykeys supposed to be one word or two?


Scott
Title: Re: Pinball entry
Post by: saint on August 17, 2012, 09:29:54 pm
No objections here, love having folks update the wiki. :)
Title: Re: Pinball entry
Post by: PL1 on August 18, 2012, 05:01:17 am
Any idea what this wiki login error message means?

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Unable to view external table
MySQL Error Number: 1054
MySQL Error Message: Unknown column 'memberName' in 'field list'


Scott
Title: Re: Pinball entry
Post by: saint on August 18, 2012, 09:04:42 am
Any idea what this wiki login error message means?

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Unable to view external table
MySQL Error Number: 1054
MySQL Error Message: Unknown column 'memberName' in 'field list'


Scott

Mmm something broken in our move. I'll ask Sirwoogie to look at it.
Title: Re: Pinball entry
Post by: PL1 on August 20, 2012, 08:44:42 am
Is wiki login working for anyone else yet?

Tried to login and got this.

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Login error:

You have not specified a valid user name.


Scott
Title: Re: Pinball entry
Post by: saint on August 20, 2012, 08:59:57 am
Oops, sorry I didn't update. There is a problem with the logins related to the upgrade/move. We're (read that as sirwoogie since I just tend to break things when I go behind the scenes) having to rework the Wiki. I will update when that is working again.
Title: Re: Pinball entry
Post by: PL1 on October 01, 2012, 05:33:45 am
One month bump + progress check.

Thanks in advance for any updates.   :)


Scott
Title: Re: Pinball entry
Post by: PL1 on November 01, 2012, 09:54:09 pm
One Two month bump + progress check.

Thanks in advance for any updates.   :)


Scott
Title: Re: Pinball entry
Post by: PL1 on December 01, 2012, 02:25:04 pm
One Two Three month bump + progress check.

Not to be impatient/pushy, but is fixing the Wiki logins still somewhere on the "to do" list?   :dunno


Scott
Title: Re: Pinball entry
Post by: PL1 on January 25, 2013, 02:30:08 pm
One Two Three Five month bump + progress check.

The question still remains unanswered -- Is fixing the Wiki logins still somewhere on the "to do" list?   :dunno

With all due respect, Saint -- Sirwoogie hasn't logged in since 9 Nov and you never responded to my 5 and 15 Dec PMs. (Follow-up message sent today.)

If you're already working it, a simple "I'm on it" would be appreciated.

If not, why not?


Scott
Title: Re: Pinball entry
Post by: Nephasth on March 15, 2013, 09:46:03 pm
I've had a sudden urge to work on the wiring page, but...
Title: Re: Pinball entry
Post by: PL1 on March 15, 2013, 10:46:34 pm
I've had a sudden urge to work on the wiring page, but...

And that brings us (a couple of days early) to the One Two Three Five Seven month bump + progress check.

The question still remains unanswered -- Is fixing the Wiki logins still somewhere on the "to do" list?   :dunno

With all due respect, Saint -- Sirwoogie still hasn't logged in since 9 Nov and you still haven't responded to my 5 Dec, 15 Dec, or 25 Jan PMs.  :angry:    :censored:   :angry:

If you can't fix this login problem, Saint, it is time to get your ass in gear and find another IT helper who can.

As before, if you're already working it, a simple "I'm on it" would be appreciated.

If you're not looking for a helper, why not?

If you are looking, what would it hurt to say so?

Your giving me the silent treatment in this thread is a pretty crappy thing to do IMNSHO.   :badmood:

Normally I'd only address a lack of common courtesy and manners like that in a PM to avoid needlessly airing dirty laundry, but . . . *sigh*.  :banghead:


Scott
Title: Re: Pinball entry
Post by: spoot on March 16, 2013, 10:31:07 am
I've not tried to edit wiki.....user/password supposed to be as same as the forum?  Would think easy fix?   :-\
Title: Re: Pinball entry
Post by: PL1 on March 16, 2013, 02:45:22 pm
I've not tried to edit wiki.....user/password supposed to be as same as the forum?  Would think easy fix?   :-\

Apparently, Sirwoogie agreed in this PM on August 19th.

Quote from: sirwoogie
We're aware of it. We'll be fixing it in the next few days.

Unfortunately, he didn't fix it before he dropped off the grid in November.

Not even sure if he got around to trying to fix it.   :dunno

I just hope that Saint reaches the fifth stage in the Kübler-Ross model (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%BCbler-Ross_model#Stages) sometime soon, but it appears as though he's stuck in the first stage. (Hint: It's not just a river in Egypt.)   >:D


Scott
Title: Re: Pinball entry
Post by: PL1 on March 16, 2013, 04:30:20 pm
Saint,

Have you looked at this (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Errors_and_Symptoms#You_have_not_specified_a_valid_user_name_.2F_Completely_blank_page_edits_and_previews_.2F_Unable_to_upload) page?

Looks like it may have fixes for several causes of the error message coming up when trying to log into the Wiki.


Scott
Title: Re: Pinball entry
Post by: saint on March 20, 2013, 07:26:28 am
A PM would probably have been more effective :) Anyone good with Lighttpd, SMS, and wiki wrangling interested in taking a look? I will look at the link you posted about the logon error. Thanks!
Title: Re: Pinball entry
Post by: saint on March 20, 2013, 07:38:46 am
A PM would probably have been more effective :) Anyone good with Lighttpd, SMS, and wiki wrangling interested in taking a look? I will look at the link you posted about the logon error. Thanks!

post_max_size and upload_max_filesize in php.ini are not set too high. 8M and 2M respectively. I will keep looking.
Title: Re: Pinball entry
Post by: saint on March 20, 2013, 08:06:02 am
One of the problems is the integration between SMF and the wiki is an old, outdated, no longer supported mod. Thoughts on dumping the integration and having a separate username/password on the wiki vs. trying to fix this link?
Title: Re: Pinball entry
Post by: Malenko on March 20, 2013, 08:36:45 am
No objections here, love having folks update the wiki. :)

I like it when they update the front page. /late burn


As for the integration, cant you just dupe the username/passwords for the wiki (so I can be sure Im Malenko on there before XuiceBox signs up as me)?
I should prolly update the wiki, give me something to do at work besides get moderated on the forums.
Title: Re: Pinball entry
Post by: PL1 on March 20, 2013, 04:24:39 pm
A PM would probably have been more effective :)

 ::)

you still haven't responded to my 5 Dec, 15 Dec, or 25 Jan PMs.

I am glad to see this is back on your radar -- which is why I PM'd you those times.

Hopefully someone who knows what they're doing can get this sorted.

Seems like there must be at least one SMF2 forum out there that has Wiki integration working.   :dunno


Scott
Title: Re: Pinball entry
Post by: saint on March 20, 2013, 04:56:23 pm
A PM would probably have been more effective :)

 ::)

you still haven't responded to my 5 Dec, 15 Dec, or 25 Jan PMs.

Hm. A PM would not have been more effective :)  Due apologies.

Title: Re: Pinball entry
Post by: PL1 on April 20, 2013, 10:00:21 am
Anyone good with Lighttpd, SMS, and wiki wrangling interested in taking a look?

One of the problems is the integration between SMF and the wiki is an old, outdated, no longer supported mod. Thoughts on dumping the integration and having a separate username/password on the wiki vs. trying to fix this link?

Eight month bump.  Looking for someone who knows the elusive art of wiki wrangling and/or input on the question of separate logins.

My 2 cents:

Keep looking for someone who knows how to integrate the 2 logins, since that is the ideal outcome.

While we're waiting (. . . and waiting, and waiting. . . ;D), establish separate logins for the wiki because it desperately needs attention.

-- Option 1 - User PMs Mod to create login.  Mod sends PM with a temp password.

-- Option 2 - Allow users to create login/password.

If anyone notices their (or someone else's) wiki login being hijacked, PM a mod who can set a different wiki password and PM it back to the user's forum account, allowing the actual user to regain control.

The sad truth is that the number of contributors/editors will probably be small enough to make either option manageable, but I'd love to be proved wrong on this.   >:D


Scott
Title: Re: Pinball entry
Post by: PL1 on May 09, 2013, 11:32:05 am
Anyone have any other options they'd like to suggest for getting Wiki-logins working again?

Does anyone like either of the options listed above or are they unworkable for some reason that I'm missing?


Scott
Title: Re: Pinball entry
Post by: spoot on May 09, 2013, 12:27:22 pm
As you say, I'd guess there would be few accounts who'd want update ability.  As such, pm'ing a mod to create account doesn't seem far fetched imho.
Title: Re: Pinball entry
Post by: saint on May 12, 2013, 09:36:12 pm
In the interest of not totally ignoring folks - I'm in the absolute worst part of the year in my work and personal life. Anything that's not a few button clicks gets back burnered. Come July I get a breather for a couple of months. If SirWoogie isn't available to fix things before then I'm of the mind to just install a brand new Wiki with its own security credentials, and migrating everything over. Do we need secure editing, or should it just be open?
Title: Re: Pinball entry
Post by: Malenko on May 13, 2013, 11:59:23 am
Open should be fine, just make sure your archive changes to make it easy to roll pages back.
Title: Re: Pinball entry
Post by: Le Chuck on May 13, 2013, 04:23:22 pm
I like the last edited by tag so if something is wonky or I want to add to I know who to shoot a pm at, that aside I'm fine with open if there is a way to make it attributional. 
Title: Re: Pinball entry
Post by: yotsuya on May 13, 2013, 04:33:25 pm
I think you should leave it broken to see if PL1 has a coronary when it reaches a year's time.  >:D
Title: Re: Pinball entry
Post by: PL1 on May 13, 2013, 08:24:25 pm
(https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/2397018368/hA61AA790/)

:laugh2:


Scott
Title: Re: Pinball entry
Post by: Gray_Area on May 15, 2013, 06:53:01 pm
(https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/2397018368/hA61AA790/)


Goddamnit, kittehs!
Title: Re: Pinball entry
Post by: PL1 on July 21, 2013, 03:35:07 pm
Eleven month bump -- how are things going, Saint.   ;D


Scott
Title: Re: Pinball entry
Post by: Nephasth on July 24, 2013, 12:48:23 pm
(http://sd.keepcalm-o-matic.co.uk/i/keep-calm-and-lower-your-standards-4.png)
Title: Re: Pinball entry
Post by: PL1 on July 31, 2013, 12:08:41 pm
::) Yeah . . . I guess I'm just getting too uppity by waiting several months to do a friendly bump on a thread concerning an issue that Saint said here (http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,122058.msg1358884.html#msg1358884) that he wanted to fix but wouldn't have time to work on until . . . July.   ::)
[/sarc]

BTW "lowering your standards" = surrender and that's not my style.   8)


Scott
Title: Re: Pinball entry
Post by: yotsuya on July 31, 2013, 12:18:43 pm
You know, Scott, you could probably create a free Wiki somewhere and just have Saint link to it. Probably be quicker.
Title: Re: Pinball entry
Post by: PL1 on August 19, 2013, 07:18:03 pm
1 year bump.

Good news: i haven't had a stroke (yet).   :lol

Not-so-good news: So far, no word on how (or if) the wiki fix is proceding.  Sirwoogie has only logged in once since November last year AFAIK.


Scott
Title: Re: Pinball entry
Post by: Felsir on August 20, 2013, 07:24:06 am
Good news: i haven't had a stroke (yet).   :lol
Good news indeed :-)


Not-so-good news: So far, no word on how (or if) the wiki fix is proceding.  Sirwoogie has only logged in once since November last year AFAIK.
This basically means that we shouldn't expect an update anytime soon. AFAIK Sirwoogie did the technical stuff on the server? Even switching back to basic Wiki-native authentication shouldn't take too much time, and at least makes the wiki usable again.
Title: Re: Pinball entry
Post by: PL1 on August 20, 2013, 08:53:48 am
Good news: i haven't had a stroke (yet).   :lol
Good news indeed :-)
:cheers:

Not-so-good news: So far, no word on how (or if) the wiki fix is proceding.  Sirwoogie has only logged in once since November last year AFAIK.
This basically means that we shouldn't expect an update anytime soon. AFAIK Sirwoogie did the technical stuff on the server? Even switching back to basic Wiki-native authentication shouldn't take too much time, and at least makes the wiki usable again.
That takes us back to reply 21 (http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,122058.msg1353466.html#msg1353466) in this thread.

What say you to this proposal, Saint?

- Separate logins for Forums and Wiki.
- Archive changes enabled to allow easy rollbacks if needed.
- Select a mod/mods to handle a WikiMod account similar to the way the UCA (User Choice Award) account works now.
- Users PM the WikiMod account to establish a login with the same username as in the forums. (modded username if the "underscore bug" is a problem?)
- WikiMod sets up login and sends confirmation PM with temp password.


Scott
Title: Re: Pinball entry
Post by: powtripp on August 28, 2013, 04:41:02 pm
This is what you need:
https://github.com/SimpleMachines/smf-mw-auth

The php code for the authentication extension file was recently updated 19 days ago and should be good to go. Script authored 4 days ago.

The installation instructions are very simple.

Now you just need to contact someone with FTP access ;).
Title: Re: Pinball entry
Post by: PL1 on September 20, 2013, 07:12:45 pm
Triskadekaphobics beware! :scared

13-month bump.

Saint -- I replied to your last PM on August 24th at 11:37:43 am and sent a follow-up email with the same text about a week later, they must have been lost in the bit-bucket again. :badmood:

Also, any comment on Powtripp's github link?


Scott
Title: Re: Pinball entry
Post by: PL1 on October 18, 2013, 04:07:59 am
14-month bump.

Any progress?
Still no replies or feedback on the last bump.   :badmood:


Scott
Title: Re: Pinball entry
Post by: Malenko on October 18, 2013, 03:37:15 pm
apparently everyone says they want more pinball, but are too lazy to do anything about it.  :cheers:
Title: Re: Pinball entry
Post by: PL1 on October 18, 2013, 11:50:26 pm
apparently everyone says they want more pinball, but are too lazy to do anything about it.  :cheers:

Actually, this thread has turned into more of a "fix the :censored: wiki logins" thread instead of the original VP/FP entry update.

Apparently the problem is finding someone that Saint trusts and that has the IT skills to apply the patches from Github.

Sirwoogie -- the guy Saint trusts -- has only logged on once this year. :badmood:


Scott
Title: Re: Pinball entry
Post by: spoot on October 20, 2013, 11:33:51 am
apparently everyone says they want more pinball, but are too lazy to do anything about it.  :cheers:

Shut yer damn piehole.   ;D

No point in waiting anymore......created a new one....will be adding more content today if work leaves me alone.
http://www.spootsworld.com/pinwiki/index.php/Main_Page (http://www.spootsworld.com/pinwiki/index.php/Main_Page)
Title: Re: Pinball entry
Post by: PL1 on October 21, 2013, 11:03:17 am
Spoot: The Man of Action.   :notworthy:  :notworthy:  :notworthy:

Hope you don't mind that I've already defaced updated the Wiki a bit.  :lol

Would it be OK if we also add in the Wiring, Yoke Rebuild, and (new addition) BYOAC FAQ wiki pages so people can update those entries as well?

Maybe a section at bottom of the Main Page for "Temp BYOAC Wiki Pages".   ;D


Scott
Title: Re: Pinball entry
Post by: spoot on October 21, 2013, 04:51:31 pm
Go fer it.  Didn't spend too much time on it....got a "clone" in place more or less then work bothered me.  And we have a huge go-live this week with our EMR........so, don't expect me to add anything soon.   ;)

Damn work.   :angry:
Title: Re: Pinball entry
Post by: PL1 on November 27, 2013, 02:45:43 pm
Slightly late 15-month bump.
Any progress, Saint?   :badmood:

Thanks again to Spoot for creating a temporary wiki (http://www.spootsworld.com/pinwiki/index.php/Main_Page) -- PM him if you'd like a login to contribute to the wiki.


Scott
Title: Re: Pinball entry
Post by: yotsuya on November 27, 2013, 03:09:00 pm
Saint should just kill that part off.  :cheers:
Title: Re: Pinball entry
Post by: saint on December 04, 2013, 04:18:17 pm
Well, kudos to folks for taking action into their own hands. Life is not giving me much time to tend to BYOAC these days :( I just came in here to post this link http://newwiki.arcadecontrols.com/ (http://newwiki.arcadecontrols.com/) to show I wasn't quite dead. You guys want me to keep going with it or give it up?  It requires separate authenticated logons from the SMF forum.
Title: Re: Pinball entry
Post by: saint on December 04, 2013, 04:19:01 pm
(By the way, looking for someone(s) willing and able to be admins of the wiki).
Title: Re: Pinball entry
Post by: Felsir on December 04, 2013, 05:15:21 pm
Seperate logins is no problem. For reading it is most convenient if it doesn't require login anyway.

I'm willing to help out as admin for the Wiki (I'm guessing Scott will be as well?)

btw. the link isn't working for me.
Title: Re: Pinball entry
Post by: saint on December 04, 2013, 05:25:51 pm
It's a new DNS entry as of today so if you have cached DNS somewhere it might not be propagated. It's working for me at work and home, anyone else?  There's nothing there yet, I just got it installed today. Have to do whatever fine tuning and tweaking it needs next.
Title: Re: Pinball entry
Post by: yotsuya on December 04, 2013, 05:36:09 pm
Yeah, I nominate PL1 to be an admin.  >:D
Title: Re: Pinball entry
Post by: saint on December 04, 2013, 09:43:48 pm
I'm not sure PL1 is speaking to me... He's not gotten a lot of reliable feedback from me on this. To him and anyone else I apologize. I'll continue to keep BYOAC going as long as people are logging on and using it, but my active administration has been almost nil these last few months. I'm not much for sharing my personal details but it's been a kind of hard year+ for me, so BYOAC has been on autopilot. I seem to have time and motivation for now though, so I'd like to get the wiki functional to the point where it doesn't depend on me.

Right now I'm working on copying stuff over from the old wiki to the new. Got the main page and am copying over the templates.

I also have configured the old wiki so it can be edited anonymously. Hopefully that doesn't bite me in the bottom. Did it so people can copy/paste from the edit box for any particular page to the new wiki. That's how I'm copying the templates over now.

Felsir and/or PL1, I'm not actually entirely clear what admin access on a wiki means vs allowing any authenticated user to edit pages. Will attempt to figure that out next.
Title: Re: Pinball entry
Post by: yotsuya on December 04, 2013, 09:59:49 pm
Leave it wide open. I'm sure Scott will clean up any vandalism.
Title: Re: Pinball entry
Post by: PL1 on December 04, 2013, 11:21:02 pm
I'm not sure PL1 is speaking to me.
Thought the problem was that I never stopped speaking to you.   :laugh2:

We're good, John.   :cheers:

I may nudge you monthly to keep the subject from falling by the wayside, but there's no hate on this end. (You may hate me for it, but that's another story.   :lol)

my active administration has been almost nil these last few months. I'm not much for sharing my personal details but it's been a kind of hard year+ for me, so BYOAC has been on autopilot. I seem to have time and motivation for now though, so I'd like to get the wiki functional to the point where it doesn't depend on me.

Right now I'm working on copying stuff over from the old wiki to the new. Got the main page and am copying over the templates.
To the extent that I can, I'd like to help.

My skills are more content editing/creation than administrative, but if there's a checklist/directions to follow . . .  ;D

I also have configured the old wiki so it can be edited anonymously. Hopefully that doesn't bite me in the bottom. Did it so people can copy/paste from the edit box for any particular page to the new wiki. That's how I'm copying the templates over now.
That will probably bite you in the backside in just a few weeks when spambots find the new wiki.

Spoot had to shut off automated account creation and tweak several other settings to stop spammers from parking content on user and unlinked pages -- easy to spot when you only have 2 real contributors and 4 pages to the wiki, but much harder with the complexity/volume of the BYOAC wiki.

IMHO the best approach is something like what was proposed earlier in the thread:
- Separate logins for Forums and Wiki.
- Archive changes enabled to allow easy rollbacks if needed.
- Select a mod/mods to handle a WikiMod account similar to the way the UCA (User Choice Award) account works now.
- Users PM the WikiMod account to establish a login with the same username as in the forums. (modded username if the "underscore bug" is a problem?)
- WikiMod sets up login and sends confirmation PM with temp password.

Felsir and/or PL1, I'm not actually entirely clear what admin access on a wiki means vs allowing any authenticated user to edit pages. Will attempt to figure that out next.
Spoot and Felsir would know better than I on this.   :dunno

Leave it wide open. I'm sure Scott will clean up any vandalism.
:P


Scott
Title: Re: Pinball entry
Post by: PL1 on December 05, 2013, 02:28:50 am
Saint -- you may want to try using the "transwiki import" function described at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Import (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Import).

Looks like you can import all templates, pages and files from one wiki to another.   :dunno

Older timestamp iles with the same filename are overwritten, newer timestamp files are left unchanged.   :cheers:


Scott
Title: Re: Pinball entry
Post by: Felsir on December 05, 2013, 03:00:16 am
Yes, the import function is the easiest solution.
Not sure if there are version issues- but I think those would be more related to content (depricated tags stuff like that) which are things that had to be manually reworked anyway.
Title: Re: Pinball entry
Post by: saint on December 05, 2013, 07:54:18 am
Ah! Merci. Doing the export/import bit now. Still slightly manual but much much better/faster.
Title: Re: Pinball entry
Post by: Felsir on December 05, 2013, 08:48:50 am
Great, I've made an account on the new Wiki.

Is the import completed (still a lot of red links)? There are a lot of outdated pages/links so I'll add a category of "pages to check" so we can systematically verify content.
Title: Re: Pinball entry
Post by: Generic Eric on December 05, 2013, 09:19:02 am
Friends and Neighbors, is this a good time to inquire about mirroring member projects?  Who knows why a website link goes dead, but I wonder if the offer to mirror the site here is still open?

Quite excited to see movement on this.  Huzzah and such!
Title: Re: Pinball entry
Post by: saint on December 05, 2013, 10:51:05 am
Would love to see projects mirrored.

I've moved everything over I think, except images, as of this post. The export on the images isn't working. Ack. May have to manually process those, and that'll be a mammoth job. Still working on that though.

I was hoping to use the missing pages link on the new wiki to see what I needed to move still, but there are a lot of missing pages on the old wiki so it's not as useful as I'd hoped.

Old wiki missing 148 pages: http://wiki.arcadecontrols.com/w/index.php?title=Special:WantedPages&limit=500&offset=0 (http://wiki.arcadecontrols.com/w/index.php?title=Special:WantedPages&limit=500&offset=0)

New wiki missing 138 pages: http://newwiki.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?title=Special:WantedPages&limit=500&offset=0 (http://newwiki.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?title=Special:WantedPages&limit=500&offset=0)

I haven't gone through them yet to see why the odd discrepancy but I think it's the old wiki listing wikipedia pages as missing while the new wiki doesn't.
Title: Re: Pinball entry
Post by: Felsir on December 05, 2013, 02:52:17 pm
I'll also sift through the wiki over the course of next week. A lot of info is outdated so a cleanup action will be needed.
Today is Sinterklaas (Dutch Santa Claus tradition) with family festivities so I won't be online that much for a couple of days.
Title: Re: Pinball entry
Post by: saint on December 05, 2013, 06:23:59 pm
I'll also sift through the wiki over the course of next week. A lot of info is outdated so a cleanup action will be needed.
Today is Sinterklaas (Dutch Santa Claus tradition) with family festivities so I won't be online that much for a couple of days.

Have a great time with your family Felsir  :) I've setup your account with wiki-moderator access, let me know how it works when you get a chance to poke around :) PL1, let me know when you setup an account?
Title: Re: Pinball entry
Post by: PL1 on December 05, 2013, 08:32:00 pm
PL1, let me know when you setup an account?

Account created/verified.

Yoke Rebuild page updated, too.   ;D


Scott
Title: Re: Pinball entry
Post by: Generic Eric on December 05, 2013, 10:23:36 pm
PL1, let me know when you setup an account?

Account created/verified.

Yoke Rebuild page updated, too.   ;D


Scott
Thank you for updating the Yoke page.  My shelf full of Star Wars Parts thanks you.
Title: Re: Pinball entry
Post by: PL1 on December 06, 2013, 02:15:04 am
Pinball entry updated and FAQ entry created.

Pics uploaded for Yoke Rebuild and Wiring since I already had those saved on a HDD.

I think that covers all the updates/changes made on Spoot's Pinwiki.   ;D

Thank you for updating the Yoke page.  My shelf full of Star Wars Parts thanks you.

Thank Major Rock Hardy (http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,71520.msg734704.html#msg734704) who did the original writeup / pics in 2007, Le Chuck who updated portions of the text last year, and lcmgadgets who provided the new pic and slightly updated text based on his recent rebuild here (http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,132183.msg1399700.html#msg1399700).   :cheers:


Scott
Title: Re: Pinball entry
Post by: saint on December 06, 2013, 08:08:49 am
Hey, PL1's been busy! :)

I have your account upgraded. Will look at setting up new accounts as per the recommendation above next.
Title: Re: Pinball entry
Post by: PL1 on December 06, 2013, 09:14:53 am
Thanks.

I figured after 15 months of "Are we there yet?", I'd better make sure that some stuff gets done.   :lol


Scott
Title: Re: Pinball entry
Post by: yotsuya on December 06, 2013, 09:50:48 am
Thanks.

I figured after 15 months of "Are we there yet?", I'd better make sure that some stuff gets done.   :lol


Scott

I'm just glad Saint never told you to STFU.  :laugh2:  :cheers: