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| - | == Personal Pages == | + | =Welcome to Wizards' Forge= |
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| + | This wiki is designed as a place for the collaborative exploration of life, the universe, and everything. It is a forge for the creation of practical instructions for all sorts of tasks, to start with most tasks will be of a technical nature designed to be easily understood and followed. The emphasis will be on practical instruction for accomplishing goals, sort of like a HowTo or step by step recipe. |
| | + | There is also plenty of room for theoretical exploration and brainstorming, but with the intent of going past theory and speculation to practical applications that can be expressed as step by step procedures. Given the fact that not all theory can be easily translated to practical use, there will remain unfinished threads that will be left for future exploration. |
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| - | ==Thoughts on Parsing Text== | + | ==The Forge== |
| - | I have been paying more attention lately to the overall content of text as I surf around. One thing I have noticed that we may be able to do based on your statistical methods is in separating common glue words from specific content. In some cases it may be more advantageous to look at phrases and not just words. I have noticed there are lots of idioms peculiar to a country or region as well. If we combine all these things we may be able to do very powerful things.
| + | [[The Forge]] is an area for working out specific group projects. |
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| - | We might also consider using Google or other search engines as a filter and indicator tool also. This will potentially add power and precision to our own tools taken by themselves.
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| - | I've been reading up a bit on regular expressions in Python and in general. It seems to me a transitional language somewhere between a scripting language and normal human speech. I have even seen some ads for something like that for system administrators who are lazy or dumb. My personal advantage is that I am both lazy and dumb. Using tools like regular expressions and a bit of associative tools like Prolog coupled with a bit of NLP add a touch of glue like Python, well I guess you see where I am going with that train of thought. I really think George is right about the timing. Computers are now powerful enough to run a whole bunch of processes all at the same time. This allows you to be able to pipe info between processes at a much greater rate and still leave room for hot graphics too. At least not that much of the processing is dumped off on the poor overworked video card.
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| - | I believe the time is right. It will also take the cooperation of the community and with people of all sorts of other skill sets besides working with computers. We are close Star Trek type computers you can hold a conversation with. Just hope HAL doesn't rear his ugly head.
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| - | ==Notes==
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| - | NOTE: Eventually we will want to create our own more secure wiki, but for now at least security through obscurity is probably going to work better than not having a collaborative site at all.
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| - | Through the [[Control Panel]] it is possible to disallow anonymous users from getting an account. If we did that we would need to moderate and add new users ourselves. Anonymous users can also be disallowed from reading pages, but there is a warning that this is not to be considered secure and that anything posted may be seen by the world even if protected.
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| - | If logged in as Admin it is possible to do some additional administrative tasks including protecting pages from additional editing.
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| - | Here is a page with [[Code]].
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| - | ==First Steps==
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| - | The username and password for the administrative account is '''admin''', '''admin'''.
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| - | #<font color="red">Important:</font> [[Special:Userlogin|Log in]] as admin and go to [[Special:Preferences|Preferences]] to change your password!
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| - | #Write down your password.
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| - | #On this page: [[image_logo_url]] put just the url for the logo that you want in the upper left corner of your wiki.
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| - | ==Other optional things to do==
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| - | *Control the rights of anonymous and logged in users through the [[Control Panel]] (which can be found in the toolbox on the left side of this page).
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| - | *Add the url for your wiki to the [http://www.editthis.info/wiki/index.php/Categorized_Wiki_List Categorized wiki list]. Simply edit that page and put your wiki under the appropriate category.
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| - | *To increase the amount of space you have for uploads, add links to http://editthis.info from external sites, and go to the [http://editthis.info/wiki/index.php/Link_Quota_Page Link Quota Page] to increase your uploads quota.
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| - | *Edit [[MediaWiki:Sidebar]] to change the navigation menu
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| - | *Add this wiki to some external wiki indexes:
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| - | #[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wiki Wikipedia list of wikis]
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| - | #[http://www.wikiindex.com/Add_a_Wiki WikiIndex]<br>
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| - | *If you are feeling adventurous and know a little about web design you can edit the javascript and css to the [[Header]] to change the look of your wiki.
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| - | **You must log as admin to do this
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| - | **Whatever you enter in this page will be added to the html in the header after the standard style sheet, so you can override styles.
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| - | *Read the [http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_User%27s_Guide User's Guide] for other usage and configuration help.
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| - | *Add your wiki to the [http://editthis.info/wiki/index.php/Map_of_wikis map of wikis]
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| - | *Add a message to the [http://www.editthis.info/wiki/index.php/Feedback Feedback Page] if you see anything that could be improved.
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This wiki is designed as a place for the collaborative exploration of life, the universe, and everything. It is a forge for the creation of practical instructions for all sorts of tasks, to start with most tasks will be of a technical nature designed to be easily understood and followed. The emphasis will be on practical instruction for accomplishing goals, sort of like a HowTo or step by step recipe.
There is also plenty of room for theoretical exploration and brainstorming, but with the intent of going past theory and speculation to practical applications that can be expressed as step by step procedures. Given the fact that not all theory can be easily translated to practical use, there will remain unfinished threads that will be left for future exploration.
