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Revision as of 00:00, 31 October 2007
Introduction
VDFWiki is about sharing knowledge about Visual DataFlex .
wiki technologies
- Wikipedia - collaborating on a online encyclopedia
- Ward Cunningham - "The wiki way" - http://www.amazon.com/Wiki-Way-Quick-Collaboration-Web/dp/020171499X
- Mediawiki - running wikipedia - http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki
Design patterns
- http://c2.com/cgi/wiki - original wiki - inspiration from the masters
- patterns are "blue prints", "whitepapers".. etc
Collaboration in the DataFlex community
- news://news.dataaccess.co
- http://vdf-guidance.com
- VdfQuery
- SCANDUC (and other user conferences!)
VDFWiki
VdfWiki started its life as a response to a debate started at Charlotte's web
VdfWiki is about sharing knowledge about Visual DataFlex in a fast way ('wiki' is 'fast' in hawaiaan).
Living in the DataFlex ecosystem
- Your contributions can be protected (We have administrators that will govern this)
- the newsgroups are still great! We can ask questions there
- www.vdf-guidance.com still has its use! vdf-guidance.com is good for sharing code and projects. We can share knowledge on vdfwiki.com.
- The blogs are still great. People can still share news and articles there!
Organisation of the wiki
The frontpage and selected areas have been protected
Administrators
There are currently the following admins --Jka 23:58, 30 October 2007 (CET)
- Sture Andersen
- Jacob Andresen
- Peter Donovan
- Will van Antwerpen
Subjects areas
Using VdfWiki
The administrators have setup the following guidelines VdfWiki_guidelines
Getting an account
everybody can register for an account.
To get an account you can just press "create account" in the upper right corner of vdfwiki. If you have experience from contributing to http://wikipedia.org , then you should feel at home at VdfWiki (it is the same system - mediawiki).
