Sleeping community...

Modelica Community is in a sleeping mood right now. Don't expect so much to happen here.

But the site is open and you're free to use it and build wiki-pages, upload models and search in the content that is here.

Hopefully new users will arrive one day and make it an active place again. If you want to help it get it started again and have some ideas, message or email [hedda]!

Side-note: Please note that the address to the community now is http://modelica.heddate.com/

Date: 2006-01-13 16:01:21
News #: 20
Reporter: hedda

New updates

Models:

Wiki-pages for non-members

Have you tried to discuss something like a list of names or features on an email-list (or in a forum)? It's a total mess and you have to send update-emails all the time that tells the current status of the list/document. And often people are responding to the same mail at the same time, and someone has to discover and merge their changes.

What you need in those situations is a freely editable wiki-page with version-control that doesn't allow people to change it over each others' changes. You can now create that on ModCom. Just go to any wiki-page (like mylist), edit it and make sure it's editable for non-logged in members, and then you paste the current list/data. Then you message the others and tell them to update the list on http://modelica.heddate.org/_mylist with their additions.

Unfortunately: To solve the other big problem people are having on email-lists, voting, the voters in a wiki-poll (To create one: Write <wikipoll:9>, <voting:10> or <multivoting:11> on a wiki-page and you'll get a poll-form!) have to be members. Non-members can only see what you have voted, not vote themselves (Who want anonymous votes anyway?). 

(I've just tried this method when making a schedule and a list of who should do what for a bachelor-party, and it works like a charm. It works for any document or list that doesn't demand advanced layout.)

Note: ModCom wiki-pages are secret! That is, unless you tell someone that they exist, no one is able to find them. They are not linked to in any automatic way. Of course it's very unsafe secrecy though.

Small stuff

The ModCom-crew can send alarm-messages only to each other or to everyone. These will be possible to turn off, so that you don't have to see the blinking warning on every page.

If you press "Put this wiki under wiki-changes" on wiki-pages, that page will appear in red, unlike other wiki-pages that appear there because someone edited them.

Date: 2005-07-12 02:09:43
News #: 19
Reporter: hedda