Ext Wiki is back!

[brian.moeskau]

Back by popular demand, it's the new and much improved Ext Wiki (or more accurately, the new community-driven learning center)! If you click on the Learn (http://www.extjs.com/learn) link at the top of the site now, you'll see that ALL content that was there is now wiki-fied, providing full integration with the site. This includes:



All existing tutorials
All existing screencasts
A brand new FAQ (ported from the old wiki)
A brand new community wiki manual (somewhat ported from the old wiki)


You have spoken, we have answered. It's only a start, but I think it's a great start. I expect to see people adding tutorials left and right, and filling up the new FAQ and manual now! No excuses! :)

Note: For those of you who have added content to the old wiki, you'll notice that I did not port everything over. I just grabbed a few pages to provide some guidelines, so if anyone wants to pull over anything that I didn't, feel free. Some of it was out of date anyway and does not need to be brought over.

A big thanks to Ext webmaster Jon Whitcraft for helping to make this happen.

[HuyDung]

It's really a good news! I'll check it right now :)

[IGx89]

I actually have an excuse for not filling up the FAQ... it isn't editable ;)

[brian.moeskau]

Try now -- should be editable for registered users who are logged in. Thanks for the heads up :)

[Rowan]

Is anyone going to write a Drag and Drop tutorial? I think myself and quite a few others would be very interested in one.

Thanks though, it's got some good bits in there already

[JorisA]

There was a drag and drop 'tutorial' on this forum somewere, maybe the author can add it hisselve?

[Rowan]

I seem to have figured it out by the power of deduction...

My code is here if you want to add it to the Wiki, it may not be exactly as it should but it works better than any of the other tutorials I've looked through, I'll work on it next week.

http://extjs.com/forum/showthread.php?p=37768#post37768

[JorisA]

Hm I thought the wiki would be a nice place to keep user created add-ons together (for example the navigation menu and the Collapsible InfoPanel) So a Unofficial Widgets namespace would be cool (also keep development somewere central)
Is it possible to upload a html page with a demo?

[KRavEN]

One thing I would like to see added to the wiki is a Snippets: namespace.

Would be a good place to stick little code snippets you've worked out to do certain things. Then people can search on them instead of creating another thread in the help forum asking how to do it.

[IGx89]

And maybe a place for people to post links to sites that use Ext, so potential users can get a better idea about what full-fledged Ext sites look like.

[jon.whitcraft]

Is it possible to upload a html page with a demo?

No, Not at this time.

[jon.whitcraft]

One thing I would like to see added to the wiki is a Snippets: namespace.

Would be a good place to stick little code snippets you've worked out to do certain things. Then people can search on them instead of creating another thread in the help forum asking how to do it.

There is an examples namespace already but let me talk with Brian and Jack to see if snippets make more sense.

[ben.tremblay]

Back by popular demand [...]heh ... now we know where to tickle to get our way.
;-P


A big thanks to Ext webmaster Jon Whitcraft for helping to make this happen.Anybody and everyone who's willing to dig into wikedom deserves some kinda hero button!

thanks, y'all

[ben.tremblay]

Nice synchronicity here:

My code is here if you want to add it to the Wiki, it may not be exactly as it should but it works better than any of the other tutorials I've looked through, I'll work on it next week.
http://extjs.com/forum/showthread.php?p=37768#post37768I'm looking at the print version of two popular forum posts, one of them with something like 50 comments (2 pages in "print" view).
What I'm thinking is, if I redacted those items, rapporteur style, integrating the iterative discussion and then pasted the whole into a wiki page ...
... perhaps the wiki could support some sort of co-authoring, to generate learning materials from forum threads.

It's convoluted ... deff simpler to write from scratch, but there's something about the discussion process that teases out salient details.

If there are threads that come to mind as deserving that treatment (I have a short list of 3 now, with Rowan's added as proof of concept) please message me.

[efege]

I have initiated a Forum Index project (http://www.extjs.com/learn/User:Efege:Forum_Index) on the wiki.

It is still a proof of concept, and the motivation is explained in the same page:


As some people have already expressed, the current size of the forum database is an obstacle for finding the required answers, even when those answers might already be there. People need a quick way to filter the "most important" threads (or posts). Also, if we have the goal of porting the accumulated community knowledge from the forums towards this wiki, then we first need to organize and select the most valuable information posted on the forums. That's why I think this project could be helpful.

If this is considered important, and other people start collaborating, then the page could be moved to the wiki's Main namespace.

I'd like to get some community feedback about this initiative. What do you think?

[jon.whitcraft]

Ooo nice job Efege..

I do think that the manual page for each item should also in there have a Forum Post or something like that section so that way when you reading about said item in the Manual section you can have quick access to the forum posts there too.

Just an idea but I think it might be useful instead of keeping a separate page..

Just my 2 cents..

[efege]

Just an idea but I think it might be useful instead of keeping a separate page..

I agree with you Jon. A well organized manual, which includes links to relevant forum discussions when appropriate, would be great. I see the separate page (i.e., the concept of a Forum Index) as an intermediate, temporary step to help us select useful stuff from so many forum posts.

[jon.whitcraft]

Ya, i do agree..I was thinking more of a end point rather than right now.

[mystix]

I have initiated a Forum Index project (http://www.extjs.com/learn/User:Efege:Forum_Index) on the wiki.

It is still a proof of concept, and the motivation is explained in the same page:



If this is considered important, and other people start collaborating, then the page could be moved to the wiki's Main namespace.

I'd like to get some community feedback about this initiative. What do you think?

good idea! and perhaps an index for "Events" as well?

[ben.tremblay]

Ooo nice job Efege.Really, ehh? Right thing done well ... gotta luv it.

Maybe our illustrious webmyster will agree that it deserves its own category? I think /learn/User:Efege:Forum_Index is not semantically optimal. You know, "URLs should be meaningful".

[jon.whitcraft]

Oh I do think it needs it's own page but for now since it's concept it's fine where it's at...

[efege]

Before moving it to a more conspicuous [1] position, perhaps we should discuss how to go on developing this index: ways to categorize things, some basic rules as to what to include or exclude, etc.

I have nothing particular to suggest at this point; maybe some of my friends in library-land can show me the right approach to this task. (BTW, I work as a hybrid librarian/developer, and this is our homemade library catalog (http://inmabb.criba.edu.ar/catalogo/).)

[1] I like that word very much ;)

[efege]

Well, I created a new thread for this forum index project (http://extjs.com/forum/showthread.php?t=8518). Let's see if we get some collaboration... :)