Large Format Wiki

[David R Munson]

Any news/progress on this? I'm still super-stoked to contribute!

[Brian C. Miller]

I've been reviewing packages. I'm going to go with MediaWiki for the wiki software. The contents can be downloaded, although the data is in a MediaWiki-specific XML format. It has a vBulletin plugin, too. Most of them (including MediaWiki) use a dorky markup language so people don't need to learn HTML.

I'll get a host service, and then get some stuff up, along with invitations for editors.

[Tin Can]

Good news!

I've been reviewing packages. I'm going to go with MediaWiki for the wiki software. The contents can be downloaded, although the data is in a MediaWiki-specific XML format. It has a vBulletin plugin, too. Most of them (including MediaWiki) use a dorky markup language so people don't need to learn HTML.

I'll get a host service, and then get some stuff up, along with invitations for editors.

[SpeedGraphicMan]

Would love to help out... With as much text as I write per week on photography, a tiny bit more won't hurt

Would this be for Large Format only or would darkroom stuff be included?

[Brian C. Miller]

The wiki will be about everything view camera, large format, film, darkroom, digital, whatever. I'm not going to restrict it.

I think that the general structure would be that each section would have a "what works for me" part. For instance, if one editor's process is different from another, then there will be two sub-pages detailing their individual processes. So say there's a section on aligning enlargers, there could be two or more sections on what people do in their darkrooms for enlarger alignment.

The main thing is to get things down so that other people can learn. Paulr. commented here that when he wanted to get back into film after a hiatus, he was very dependent on his notes.

[jp]

I've setup and managed wikis made with mediawiki. I like it a lot and think it's a great choice. Let me know if you need any help. The data is stored in a database and can be dumped out a bunch of ways for backup/export as needed. If you can backup a mysql database, you've backed up the wiki.

[Tin Can]

Back up is vital and essential, or don't bother.

I've setup and managed wikis made with mediawiki. I like it a lot and think it's a great choice. Let me know if you need any help. The data is stored in a database and can be dumped out a bunch of ways for backup/export as needed. If you can backup a mysql database, you've backed up the wiki.

[Brian C. Miller]

OK, the site name will be viewcamerawiki.org. I just got the domain name and I'm using a hoster I've used for years. Probably by Friday I'll have the software set up.

[Tin Can]

Great!

OK, the site name will be viewcamerawiki.org. I just got the domain name and I'm using a hoster I've used for years. Probably by Friday I'll have the software set up.