Oolite Wiki

[montana05]

But in more splendid news:

Winston was at it this morning. He had set it at 200MB, but there are so many configurations to keep aligned, he chased down the last one.
I just successfully uploaded a 10MB test oxz

Splendid news indeed, with a limit of 200 MB I might add another texture to my next package. Thanks to Murgh and Winston, this was solved fast.

[UK_Eliter]

Murgh: thank you, and Winston, very much.

montana05: I hope you joke about the next texture! For, as I said above, I have just tightened my belt, so to speak!

[Old Murgh]

Murgh: thank you, and Winston, very much.

You're welcome, but it's all Winston. I have no skillz to contribute with in what needed to be done. But of course, the messenger also deserves a pat on the back.

[montana05]

Murgh: thank you, and Winston, very much.

montana05: I hope you joke about the next texture! For, as I said above, I have just tightened my belt, so to speak!

Very noble of you to tighten your belt, but it doesn't mean that all of us need to follow.

[UK_Eliter]

Montana

I was merely being light-hearted! To be more serious: sometimes, an expansion pack has good reason to be large.

[montana05]

Montana

I was merely being light-hearted! To be more serious: sometimes, an expansion pack has good reason to be large.

My bad, since I am not a native English-speaker once in a while I confuse some meanings. My apologies. The only reason why some of my packages are pretty large are the textures, most of them included just as eye-candies and not because they are necessary.

[Cholmondely]

Has anybody tried searching for the word "poet" in our wiki?

The results are, quite literally, terrifying!

What on earth were Bell and Braben up to?


I've just added a poetry section here: https://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/Oolite_Literature


I wonder if rather than playing Oolite or writing oxp's for it, we should really be writing poetry about it?

[Old Murgh]

Has anybody tried searching for the word "poet" in our wiki?

The results are, quite literally, terrifying!

The only good poet is an edible poet!

[Old Murgh]

Huzzah. Winston wrote that he has implemented the greater format upload.
"Permitted file types: png, gif, jpg, jpeg, webp, oxz, zip, oxp."

[Cholmondely]

Musings

The Category:Oolite

I suspect that this category has now passed its sell-by date.

Originally it used to act as a clear divider between the Elite:Frontier:Oolite material on our wiki, but that time has long passed. I do think that our wiki serves as one of the major remaining sources for Elite & Frontier, but its primary use will inevitably be for Oolite.

Current Category:Oolite contents include :
Running Oolite-Fedora Core 5, Running Oolite-Windows etc
Like ship shipdata.plist example
Dealing with Thargoids
Mission One - FAQ
Daemon Class Cruiser

For some of these this is the only category.

I feel that some of us should go through these pages and reclassify them, and decide on a core of what belongs in this category (maybe just stuff for beginners, or just stuff about the Vanilla game...).

There is a Category:Help for beginners. But I think that there is nothing for the core vanilla game.


Comments?

[montana05]

Huzzah. Winston wrote that he has implemented the greater format upload.
"Permitted file types: png, gif, jpg, jpeg, webp, oxz, zip, oxp."

Great, some movement. However, file oxp is useful how ? I could upload now dictionary or just a file ?

[Old Murgh]

Great, some movement. However, file oxp is useful how ? I could upload now dictionary or just a file ?

Not sure how widely used it will be, obviously not for the download manager, but at least now it's possible to simply archive a naked oxp if it's someone's decision.

It would be preferable to zip an oxp (along with readme). I think many of the old historic oxps, the capnhack.com files and other orphans on various box.com accounts, are worthy candidates for preservation for their wikipages.

[phkb]

While the wiki declares it will accept file uploads up to 2GB in size, my attempts to load a 200MB zip file keep failing with the error "413 Request Entity Too Large". I did manage to load a 123MB file though. I'm trying to load the previous Oolite versions onto the wiki for ease of access.

[Cholmondely]

While the wiki declares it will accept file uploads up to 2GB in size, my attempts to load a 200MB zip file keep failing with the error "413 Request Entity Too Large". I did manage to load a 123MB file though. I'm trying to load the previous Oolite versions onto the wiki for ease of access.

Suggestion: add date of version & platform details (AppleMac etc) to the wiki page.

For coding reference purposes I doubt that we need all 3 versions, but I'm just a dumb pilot!

[Cholmondely]

Huzzah. Winston wrote that he has implemented the greater format upload.
"Permitted file types: png, gif, jpg, jpeg, webp, oxz, zip, oxp."

Has anybody yet uploaded an .oxp to the wiki? There was a notice some years ago about how .oxp's just being a folder with stuff inside could not be uploaded to the wiki. I've not been able to find it again - but that would have been for an older version of the wiki software.