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Svengali, are you happy for me to hand over the task of finding and filling in all of that information for authors who don't have wiki accounts? The more columns you have in the table the more maintenance it requires. I've already had it suggested to me that I could make a wiki page for every OXP fo...

Regarding size of download: One problem is there may not be one size. System Redux 2 has low res textures and high res textures. BackgroundSet consists of various parts and you don't have to download them all. The constore has various ad packs. I think what low bandwidth users want is for large down...

By the way: "deprecated" in computer slang means the same as "is currently working perfectly, but will stop working at some point in the future". Therefore it doesn't even make sense to mark something as "deprecated" which has stopped working. Yes true, deprecated is n...

The goal is noble but I think we might need more options than only author contact. When 1.74 was released there was a lot of discussion on the BB about which OXPs work and which don't. These discussion are also a source of information that I would consider even if an author doesn't reply. Or just p...

On the other hand it might deter someone who, for whatever reason, still uses an older version then the min version of the latest release, from digging deeper. If the OXP page offers an older version for download which has a lower min version than the latest release then I would go for the lowest m...

Good point, till one year ago I only had an isdn connection. And any oxp > 4 MB I downloaded only when I was sure I really wanted it. At that time it would have found it useful. A problem are of course the pages that also contain a slimmed down version. Which size should be presented. Probably the ...

maik wrote:

One option to not loose this information is to include it in the Wiki OXP template.

You learn something new every day. What does the Wiki OXP template do?

One small comment, as soon as you put multiple authors/contacts etc then you'll partially cripple your sorting. For example the BigShips OXP is by Eric and me, but I'm the one who hosts and keeps it (on Box). But if the list is then sorted by author and the author for BigShips is "Thargoid &am...

My setup is here: http://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/XBox360_Controller I use: left stick: left-right for roll up-down for front view, rear view right stick: up, down, left, right for pitch and yaw joypad: up, down, left, right - mapped to arrow keys to allow navigating in menus etc. and also arrow up...

Author and contact are different. For oolite I would describe Giles as the Author, and Ahruman as the maintainer (or contact). Which do you think would be most useful on the OXP page? (Keep in mind that the detailed information about an OXP will be on an external site or wiki page so I don't think ...

maik wrote:

Since I see value in having them maintained I volunteer to help with this.

Very much appreciated.

Does anyone have any objection to me changing column heading "Author" to "Contact", the idea being that there would be one contact for a multiple-authored OXP?

For OXP authors who do not have a wiki account, please PM me details of any OXPs that need to be updated or are missing using the format:
|Category
|OXP Name and Brief Description
|Author
|Min Version of Oolite
|Max Version of Oolite

Since https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?t=8366 long strayed from the original topic, let's continue discussion here. Do ask them if spammers are a problem or not... ;) Please don't, the flashbacks have finally started to settle down... :wink: In light of this, of course the wiki remains editable...

it's not terribly easy to get a wiki account That kind of defeats the purpose of a wiki doesn't it? I've updated the Max Versions to 1.74.x. Thargoid, thanks for taking the trouble to update your entries. If I want to find all your OXPs, I just sort by author - nice :wink: If anyone can get the app...

I agree that the pages ought to be auto-generated. Big problem - they can't. Ahruman already said that Winston will not install Mediawiki addons that might allow some of the clever autogen functionality you suggest. So for the time being unless someone rebuilds the wiki somewhere else, I don't see a...