Clockwork / GameShell Wiki

Has there been any thought into adding a wiki? Forums are great for discussion, but some of the information gained during discussions can benefit from being documented into a wiki where it will be easier to find, and not lost into the ether of the forums.

Links to current and past OS images, and how to use / install them. Pages containing and explaining the hardware, schematics, etc. Trouble shooting guides. Tutorials. Etc.

It would also have the added benefit of a location where new users can immediately go to solve most beginner issues.

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That’s a great suggestion. We are working on that.
There are some wiki pages done, we need to make them more organized and complete.
We welcome all of your suggestions and contributions.

If I’m being honest, I’ve never found the Github wiki pages to be very pleasing, but yeah, organization and completeness would help a lot.

I may set up a test MediaWiki styled to evoke Clockwork / GameShell, to see how it looks.

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I edited one page yesterday on the github wiki. Not a big friend of it. Its hard to see the changes in history. Also difficult to generate table of content.

I was having a discussion with @javelinface yesterday in another thread about setting up a wiki. Consolidation of Current FAQS and general cleanup

Let’s work together to setup a Media Wiki? Since I am new I don’t mind reading all the old posts to learn stuff and write.

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If we setup a Media Wiki, we need to host it somewhere, probably in clockworkpi.com? For that we’ll need @yong or @guu to set it up before we can fill in the content. What do you guys think?

Sure! We could setup a Media Wiki or Gitbook for hosting the wiki. How about GitBook?

I have never used GitBook but curious to try. We can test it to see if it is easy to use and if the community likes it. Otherwise, old school Media Wiki is good since people are familiar with it.

It seems only 5 collaborators are allowed for the free plan of GitBook. This is not ideal. https://legacy.gitbook.com/pricing

http://wiki.clockworkpi.com has been setup with Media Wiki.

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That’s awesome!!! I’ll start filling in entries!

Just finished making the main page. Hope you guys like it! Need help to fill in the pages.

The CHIP community wiki is a good example to follow: http://www.chip-community.org/index.php/Main_Page

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You rock! Keep on the great work!
We need more contributors.

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Added a few more pages:
http://wiki.clockworkpi.com/index.php/Hardware_Info
http://wiki.clockworkpi.com/index.php/3D_Models
http://wiki.clockworkpi.com/index.php/Compatible_game_engines
http://wiki.clockworkpi.com/index.php/Assembly
http://wiki.clockworkpi.com/index.php/Pico-8
http://wiki.clockworkpi.com/index.php/SSH

@jama22 created a well written page: http://wiki.clockworkpi.com/index.php/Up_and_Running

Hope to see more community effort!

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