HDV wiki? at DVinfo.net

Jack Zhang · May 20th, 2005, 09:13 PM

I heard someone talk of starting a DV wiki but what about a HDV wiki? We could know more through independant research and everything HDV! It would be great!

Radek Svoboda · May 21st, 2005, 12:28 AM

What is wiki?

Radek

Robert Young · May 21st, 2005, 02:37 AM

In Hawaiian wiki means "quick"
In Canadian it might mean "humble aboriginal dwelling" ???
Just guessing here.

Armin Obersteiner · May 21st, 2005, 06:12 AM

go ahead: http://hdv.xos.net/

If it's not adopted, I'll have to remove it after a few months.

Daniel Lundmark · May 23rd, 2005, 02:26 PM

A Wiki is a collaborative collection of information.

It differs from a forum in that it is not based on posting questions and answers based on time.

Instead, for example, on a Wiki one person may post an explaination of "HDV interlacing". This article can then be edited and improved by others. In a forum like DVinfo, people cannot edit other's posts, only respond in another post with corrections. Wikis are designed to be a cleaner presentation of collective information that is constantly improving.

The biggest wiki style site I know of is www.wikipedia.org . They do have a sparse page for HDV at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDV . However, WikiPedia has great pages describing optics, focal length, depth of field, film techniqes, and other useful information, see here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focal_length
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depth_of_field
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_film_techniques

Certainly, a dedicated Wiki for HDV would be great. I will try and submit something helpful at http://hdv.xos.net/ . Thanks Armin.

Armin Obersteiner · May 23rd, 2005, 04:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Daniel Lundmark

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focal_length
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depth_of_field
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_film_techniques

Certainly, a dedicated Wiki for HDV would be great. I will try and submit something helpful at http://hdv.xos.net/ . Thanks Armin.

We could use wikipedia links for common words like Focal_length etc. There are already good explanations for those standard terms in WIKIPEDIA.

A WIKI is a self/user maintained website/information store/faq. No direct discussion happens there, but solutions found maybe posted there and links to important threads to e.g. this board could be made.

It's an addon - no competition to this board.

Anybody interrested can register there. Please use your real name (like here) and a valid email adress (in case of problems). Any logged in person can edit nearly everything.

Read: How to use that site - at the bottom of the page.

Everyone is invited...

Chris Hurd · May 23rd, 2005, 07:15 PM

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links to important threads to e.g. this board could be made

Links to this board could be made, but under no circumstances shall any of our message board content or articles be lifted from here and duplicated there or elsewhere.

Daniel Lundmark · May 23rd, 2005, 08:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chris Hurd

Links to this board could be made...

Hi Chris, I'm new to the board (at posting - been reading for several months now). Thanks again for the great resources available through DVinfo.

Regarding an HDV wiki, If you want to create a wiki as part of DVinfo.net, there are several great wiki open-source server software packages. One good one is available at http://wikipedia.sourceforge.net/ ...

There is no reason to have only one wiki out there! The more collaborative resources for digital filmmaking, the better.

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My tools: SONY FX1 and Vegas+DVD 6

Chris Hurd · May 23rd, 2005, 08:59 PM

Thanks Daniel,

I'm not opposed to adding a wiki for HDV or DV or anything else here at DV Info Net (or its sub-sites). The only thing that bothers me about the wiki process is that *anyone* can make changes to it -- including certain nay-sayers who for whatever reasons are compelled wage their self-serving propaganda campaigns against this or that format. If there was a way to weed out these trolls and their hidden agendas, then I'd have more support for it. Limiting the ability to add or change content to only those dedicated members whom we know we can trust would be one such agreeable compromise as far as I'm concerned.

Meanwhile I'm still convinced that individual FAQ sections for each of our areas, especially including HDV, would be just as beneficial as a wiki if not more so. All it takes is a dedicated community effort to assemble one.

Armin Obersteiner · May 24th, 2005, 03:50 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chris Hurd

Links to this board could be made, but under no circumstances shall any of our message board content or articles be lifted from here and duplicated there or elsewhere.

You are right here. I'm thinking of a FAQ as a starting point. No message should be copied. Duplication of content, while illegal (copyright) or immoral (competition) is useless too. If this WIKI works, maybe new articles/reviews are created there later...

The answer to anyone can edit: I immediatly switched from media-wiki (wiki-pedia) to moinmoin, beacause you need to be logged in.
Furthermore any author can lock their pages, so noone else can edit them. Admins can revert to any version anytime. If the WIKI gets too large it may be a problem, but not one that other sites have not solved yet...

May 20th, 2005, 09:13 PM	#1
Jack Zhang Inner Circle Join Date: May 2005 Location: Burnaby, BC, Canada Posts: 3,053	HDV wiki? I heard someone talk of starting a DV wiki but what about a HDV wiki? We could know more through independant research and everything HDV! It would be great!

May 21st, 2005, 06:12 AM	#4
Armin Obersteiner New Boot Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Vienna, Austria Posts: 24	go ahead: http://hdv.xos.net/ If it's not adopted, I'll have to remove it after a few months. Last edited by Armin Obersteiner; May 21st, 2005 at 11:19 AM.

May 23rd, 2005, 02:26 PM	#5
Daniel Lundmark New Boot Join Date: May 2005 Location: Long Beach, CA Posts: 12	What a wiki is... A Wiki is a collaborative collection of information. It differs from a forum in that it is not based on posting questions and answers based on time. Instead, for example, on a Wiki one person may post an explaination of "HDV interlacing". This article can then be edited and improved by others. In a forum like DVinfo, people cannot edit other's posts, only respond in another post with corrections. Wikis are designed to be a cleaner presentation of collective information that is constantly improving. The biggest wiki style site I know of is www.wikipedia.org . They do have a sparse page for HDV at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDV . However, WikiPedia has great pages describing optics, focal length, depth of field, film techniqes, and other useful information, see here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focal_length http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depth_of_field http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_film_techniques Certainly, a dedicated Wiki for HDV would be great. I will try and submit something helpful at http://hdv.xos.net/ . Thanks Armin.

May 23rd, 2005, 08:59 PM	#9
Chris Hurd Obstreperous Rex Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: San Marcos, TX Posts: 27,366 Images: 513	Thanks Daniel, I'm not opposed to adding a wiki for HDV or DV or anything else here at DV Info Net (or its sub-sites). The only thing that bothers me about the wiki process is that anyone can make changes to it -- including certain nay-sayers who for whatever reasons are compelled wage their self-serving propaganda campaigns against this or that format. If there was a way to weed out these trolls and their hidden agendas, then I'd have more support for it. Limiting the ability to add or change content to only those dedicated members whom we know we can trust would be one such agreeable compromise as far as I'm concerned. Meanwhile I'm still convinced that individual FAQ sections for each of our areas, especially including HDV, would be just as beneficial as a wiki if not more so. All it takes is a dedicated community effort to assemble one. __________________ CH Search DV Info Net \| 20 years of DVi \| ...Tuesday is Soylent Green Day!

May 21st, 2005, 12:28 AM	#2
Radek Svoboda Major Player Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Prague, Czech Republic Posts: 500	What is wiki? Radek

May 21st, 2005, 02:37 AM	#3
Robert Young Trustee Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Coronado Island Posts: 1,472	In Hawaiian wiki means "quick" In Canadian it might mean "humble aboriginal dwelling" ??? Just guessing here.