Want to help FGUK? - Wiki updating
Does anyone with a bit of time fancy helping out?
Our aircraft aren't very well represented outside of our own little world and it'd be good if we could at least get them listed in the official FG Wiki - most of which for aircraft doesn't get updated too often.
This seems to be primarily aimed at FG2.0
https://wiki.flightgear.org/Aircraft
If someone had some time and could get the aircraft/listings from the current available hangar in the right sections, and the aircraft section, of the FG wiki - along with links to download them in our hangar of course, then that'd be hugely appreciated.
It's quite easy to update the Wiki - just needs a bit of time
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I'm happy to help, but it'll probably take me some time, especially since my availability is very uncertain.
I've never updated the wiki so I'd need some more guidance as to where, what and how I should update the listings.
As a first small change I updated the link to our hangar.
Alex, are we actually allowed to add our aircraft to the official aircraft table on the wiki??
Geed,
As long as there's a link to the site I don't see why not . I've read through the pages and I can't see any restrictions.
As a random sample this one has Helijah's hangar listed and shows the license so as long as we format the pages like that I reckon we will be well within the rules.
https://wiki.flightgear.org/Dornier_Do_X
That's maybe not such a good example because it is an official FGAddon aircraft.
This is a better example:
https://wiki.flightgear.org/Edgley_Optica
interestingly, around the same time (10 years ago) Gary also made this edit
https://wiki.flightgear.org/w/index.php?title=Aircraft&diff=prev&oldid=72811
All right - couple of questions regarding licenses.
Whenever I want to add an image to the wiki, I need to specify its origin, its license model and it's authors.
I would go with the following values:
We have the following license models at our choice. Which one should we use for any of our image content on the wiki page?
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Next question.
If you look at my test page, you can see that the license text, I copied from the set file and pasted into the info page is CC BY-NC-SA.
That though produces the warning text, you can see. How should we phrase this?
https://wiki.flightgear.org/Aw159_wildcat/
The info page is defined here: https://wiki.flightgear.org/Aw159_wildcat/info
For everyone, not able o edit the wiki, here is the source of that info page. It is the source for the info box on the right side of every aircraft page.
<includeonly>{{infobox aircraft | name = AW159 Wildcat | hangar = fguk | aircraft = Optica | image = Edgley_Optica_01.jpg | alt = AW159 Wildcat | image2 = Edgley Optica cabin 01.jpg | alt2 = AW159 Wildcat Interior | type = Military Helicopter | config = Helicopter | propulsion = Piston aircraft/Single-engine aircraft/Ducted fan-powered aircraft | manufacturer = AgustaWestland | authors = Alphasim (3d) Gerard Robin, StuartC (FG Conversion + FDM changes), Garry Brown (paintwork), Geed (sound) | fdm = YASim | fgname = wildcat | license = CC BY-NC-SA | navbar = 1 }}</includeonly><noinclude> This is the info sub page of the AW159 Wildcat. [[Category:Helicopter infobox documentation]] </noinclude>---
The wiki somehow knows about the hangar with the name "fguk". It included the link to the homepage of the hangar as well as a logo image.
Alex, where are these defined? The link is still wrong.
This wiki software somehow must have some sort of database where we can define the key/value pairs or something like that. Do you know, how this is done?
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Regarding images: I will produce new images if I cannot find a good one, we already have somewhere on our web spaces or drive.
I will add them to the wiki using the license model, you guys agreed upon. I will set the Author to me in those cases.
Also, where do we actually add our aircraft since you guys posted separate pages, where do these point to?
Should we add them here https://wiki.flightgear.org/Aircraft or somewhere else? Because when I wanted to add a helicopter for example it wouldn't let me because it's a template and we can't change those.
Best point people to the aircrafts own page in the website and not give a direct link to the zip file.
https://sites.google.com/view/fgukhangar/flightgear-uk-home-page/hangar
Each aircraft has a text file in its folder which should have the licence info. Its ether called "COPYING", or "Licence" depending who did it.
The main hangar page contains links to all the download pages. They are just hidden from view. Here is what is there (might save a lot of chasing around)
118 aircraft?