Talk:Welcome to the Sugar Labs wiki

This site is a wiki. It can and may be edited by anyone. Please edit responsibly. We hope that people can contribute their knowledge to the site. Sugar labs hopes to expand and explore with the Sugar UI and OS.

Reflection

What is reflection? It isn't discussed anywhere in this Wiki?--Mokurai 22:37, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Nothing too complicated: simply the idea that reflecting upon one's work--asking oneself questions such as what, how, and why, is a valuable part of the learning process. We should back this assertion up with a literature search. --Walter 13:01, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

News Updates

I know this is just the beginning, but I think a lot of other people might be as curious as I to know what is happening here on a more regular basis. I also know that most people are used to using email mailing lists for this sort of thing. However, since I maintain a general disdain for email, I thought it might not be too audacious to suggest a News page for the wiki here.

It would be nice to know more about where things are going and follow discussions in HTML. It might also be nice to have regular updates on what Walter and other luminaries are thinking about the direction of this whole thing. I am quite excited about the direction this is taking (although it scared me quite a bit until this site appeared), but the general lack of information makes one uncomfortable. Thus, I am making this request.

LuYu 18:55, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

See Walter's message from two days ago to the its.an.education.project mailing list. This wiki didn't exist more than about a week ago, but you can read the list archive via HTML here. Cjl 23:17, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

Wiki Theme

Can I get a copy of this mediawiki theme anywhere? I love it. Will Sugar Labs release it to the public?

We are happy, that you like our Shikiwiki-theme: You can download it here. --Helga 15:12, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

ParserFunctions needs to be installed

Although the templates for translations have been copied over from laptop.org, they do not work correctly, since they depend on the MediaWiki extension ParserFunctions, which is apparently not installed/enabled for the Sugar Labs wiki. The symptom of this is stuff with {{#if: in the displayed text (e.g. in the translation box on this main welcome page. This needs to be enabled by an administrator, and may even require installing software on the server.

You can see that no extensions have been installed on this MediaWiki instance by looking at Special:Version and comparing it to version at laptop.org. Dupuy 15:22, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

On my todo list. --Walter 22:50, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

Should be all set. --Walter 02:37, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

Time to block unregistered page creations?

We are getting multiple spam attacks per day now. --Walter 17:50, 20 July 2008 (UTC)

I am afraid so. The mediawiki manual at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Preventing_access#Restrict_anonymous_editing explaines how. dfarning 17:55, 20 July 2008 (UTC)

Write link

The write activity FLOSSmanual link on the front page should go to http://en.flossmanuals.net/write_activity (the manual) instead of http://en.flossmanuals.net/write (the editing portal) --Bcjordan 16:21, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

Good catch. Thanks. --Walter 16:57, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

Key features Listing

I'm not sure I like the new layout of our key features list, with the icons intermixed with the quips. Maybe we could let the icons float on the right? bernie

I am not crazy about it either. Perhaps people could experiment in their sandboxes with some alternatives. --Walter 14:10, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

Sugar HDTV

Fedora 10 Sugar-spin with Sugar 0.82-2 GUI on my Hyundai HD Ready TV.--Kozuch 21:21, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

Is it running on the processor in the TV itself? --Walter 21:28, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

Hi Walter! It is a low-end LCD TV, it has only a crappy flash card reader... I uploaded some more photos - see my Sugar gallery! However, I want to make Sugar running onAlix.1C board... I will be fiddeling with it very soon - I appreciate any advice! Kozuch 23:43, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

Sugar solutions

Does someone know, whether there are any other applications of Sugar rather than its use in OLPC? So far I read it was only ported to Classmate PC 2, but I did not hear about any solutions that might "compete" with OLPCs mission. Kozuch 00:24, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

Crazed Wiki Editor Feature Request Rampage

1. the logo on the wiki should take you to the wiki main page, not sugarlabs.org
2. the automatic timeout on logged in users is short, and anons can't edit. this is a BAD combination. I've lost two edits that way, as I have been auto logged out while composing an edit, and didn't notice after saving. Please turn on "edits by anons" for at least the Talk: and User_talk: namespaces. And double or triple the timeoue.
3. the black background is very nice. this is a feature preservation request. :-) However, the tabs at the top of each page have extra space at the bottom which should be filled in with gray --> css fix.

+sj + 22:00, 17 May 2009 (UTC)

potential XO purchasers

We should not be advertising any one vendors' products on our home page. --Walter 12:54, 21 June 2009 (UTC)