Mamewah wiki...WOW Saint added it!!!

[Taborious]

    I love the wiki.arcadecontrols.com site; great thing, and all the questions I see for mamewah I was thinking what is the possibilty of someone starting a mamewah wiki. This way it would take some of the burden off of minwah to help every that posts here and have a place to send the noobs and or someone trying something different. Or does the app change too much that a wiki would become out of date or irrelevant too quickly...

[Minwah]

I don't know much about Wiki's but maybe someone could advise if they are a potentially good way to do documentation?  The editing method looks like it might be useful for updating by a select few people.

As always my documenting of my latest beta's isn't progressing well so anything that makes it easier is welcome...

[Taborious]

Well a wiki is just community access documentation, so anyone can update. So if someone knows how to do something they simply update/add a section to the wiki for that process. The update happens immediately and is available for all to see as soon as committed by the author but of course can be removed or changed by a moderator. Basically, you, minwah, don't have to write all of the documentation or keep answering emails or posts you can simply direct people to a specific section in your wiki site.

Now that being said you would need someone to host the wiki site and I don't know if Saint would be interested in setting up a section in the wiki.arcadecontrols.com specific for certain apps. The arcadecotrol wiki is very general just here are the front ends you can use not here's how you use them which is what the mamewah wiki would need to be...

[pmc]

Why not just build out this page? I haven't been following the wiki planning discussions (what's OK and what's not and what should go where), but it seems appropriate to extend the existing page content a bit futher. But maybe that starts something that can't be managed...

Personally, I stay with an older version of Mamewah(0.96?) because I know that upgrading/reconfiguring/troubleshooting/tweaking will result in some dedicated learning time. I don't really have that time. Having a better documentation/FAQ/How-to site would be really helpful to me.

Wikis can be really good for this because the community can participate in keeping the information current. It's theoretically unlikely to get stale. If you have a big enough and dedicated enough community (and I think Mamewah does), it could work really well.

-pmc

[Taborious]

Continueing deeper on the arcadecontrols wiki site is fine if Saint doesn't mind. I'm not sure if he wants that wiki getting that specific or if he wants it to remain general information. I know there are some other wiki moderators out there, SirPoonga comes to mind. I will post a message in the wiki discussion section referencing this post and have them chime in with their 2 cents...

[BobbyG66]

Continueing deeper on the arcadecontrols wiki site is fine if Saint doesn't mind. I'm not sure if he wants that wiki getting that specific or if he wants it to remain general information. I know there are some other wiki moderators out there, SirPoonga comes to mind. I will post a message in the wiki discussion section referencing this post and have them chime in with their 2 cents...

Not too familar with building Wiki's myself, although I have used them.

Can it host documents or would we just post a link to where they are available?

[Taborious]

Simple explaination, you would copy and paste the doc you have to the wiki site and it would live there...

[saint]

I think building out a Mamewah sub-section (or any other related topic sub-section) is a fine idea and one I'd be happy to host. I would start with a MAMEWah front page that is linked from wherever is appropriate, but can also be given out as the direct link for accessing MAMEWah information. From that main page create whatever pages are needed beneath it.  I have plenty of space and bandwidth available and think the Wiki growth is a great thing

--- saint

[Taborious]

WOW, I didn't think this was going to happen this fast but it's great to see it happening.

Minwah, I have mamewah running, don't know how good I would be on documenting but I will contribute what I can, I'll be happy to help...

[electricd]

I think this is a great idea!  MameWah is a great program, but when I set it up I had MANY MANY questions that would probably be answered in something like this!   

[Space Fractal]

Could we not just use the main wiki, wich is a great project?

MAMEWAH have it own page:
http://wiki.arcadecontrols.com/wiki/Mamewah

But the Documentation & FAQ could been linked from there to subpages?

Like

http://wiki.arcadecontrols.com/wiki/Mamewah_Support
http://wiki.arcadecontrols.com/wiki/Mamewah_Docs
http://wiki.arcadecontrols.com/wiki/Mamewah_Ini

An so on. The most comen quenstaions could been http://wiki.arcadecontrols.com/wiki/Mamewah_FAQ to.

The some can go with other frontends and maybe jukebox too (like a FAQ for Dos/Wincab or so on)?

Mamewah is a frontend for this community, so why not? I use this to, so much, I developed a Jukebox software, that have a simular interface with Mamewah.

[Taborious]

There are no links on the mamewah wiki from the arcadecontrols.com/wiki/mamewah main...splash page I guess you can call it. So in wiki fashion I will add those when I get home.

Fractal, for the arcadecontrols wiki is this the only place I should be adding a link or would it be OK to change the http://wiki.arcadecontrols.com/wiki/Front-Ends chart and add a column for the front-end wiki-subpage? This way if other front-ends want to create a wiki-subpage they can add the link there...?

[Space Fractal]

I have altered the page, what I was thinked for:
http://wiki.arcadecontrols.com/wiki/Mamewah

This is just a example, but if you have more page, just add it. It easy, and if there are any spelling or so, some poeple may spot it and correct it.

Im think it dosen't need to beeen add a new columns in the mainpage, but just in the splash/indepth page about the frontend. It could been to large, and (I guess) only few frontend (and maybe jukebox?) would use these extra pages.
 

[Minwah]

This looks very promising!

I seem to be running out of excuses for my poor/lacking docs 

[Silver]

This looks very promising!

I seem to be running out of excuses for my poor/lacking docs 

Hah looks like someone else has bacically written the cover, the contents list and the chapter headings and put the pen in your hand....

[MPTech]

I'm excited!   Are we there yet?

I installed Mamewah a month ago and had a lot of problems.  I've searched this site many times for answers, but progress was very slow.  I ran out of time (I have work to do and a long list of honey-do's) and eventually gave up.  I'd still like to get it to work, but don't know where I'm going wrong.

This wiki would SURELLY help!
I went to the wiki and thought "GREAT" my prayers were answered, was I bummed to find only the "chapters".  I'll try to be patient.  But PLEASE hurry up!