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After a great deal of work, the OSFAQ wiki has been converted and merged to this site.

Now, free ASCII champagne (and diet cola for those who still have to drive)

I'd like to make a toast to those who helped, including but not limited to:
Solar, John Hawthorn, Alboin and Yayyak

Cheers *raises glass*

Well, you can have your ASCII champagne. I'll go open a real bottle (although technically I can't call it champagne, I have to call it white sparkling wine instead).

Now, what should we focus on next?

Yayyak wrote:Well, you can have your ASCII champagne. I'll go open a real bottle (although technically I can't call it champagne, I have to call it white sparkling wine instead).

How 'bout some ASCII tea?

*Raises cup of tea*

Yayyak wrote:Now, what should we focus on next?

There's always the wishlist. Personally, I think I might work on the memory management section. (Oh, yes, do please ignore that little snippet under paging for the moment.... )

All the while I've been working on my OS, and using the wiki, I've been keeping mental notes on areas I think need improvement, so I might eventually write that down somewhere.....

Please, do write them down. The only problem I find is that all the high-priority things on the Wish List I haven't got to in my project yet, so I can't write about them.

*brews a pot of ASCII tea*

We can start on the wish list, I at least plan to complete the pages I started long ago to lower the number of in-progress pages (mainly, VGA Hardware. I did the others earlier today)

And there's solar's remark that every question should either be a request for the wiki or beg for a link. I have been poking around some internals, and I figured that you can put pages under a different name in a category. (i.e. questions in the FAQ category linking to the page holding the answer). If that sounds like a plan, I can document the method and rework the FAQ page.

I've been keeping mental notes on areas I think need improvement

I keep random knowledge in my userpage scratchpad. I work out new things around there as well. If you see something useful, drop a note and I'll move it into the main namespace.

I have to call it white sparkling wine instead

I can't afford real champagne, hence the ASCII variant A cup of tea isn't a bad idea either... hmm what taste shall I use today...

Thanks for the toast, but I feel I contributed little since the move from MT.

Combuster wrote:I have been poking around some internals, and I figured that you can put pages under a different name in a category. (i.e. questions in the FAQ category linking to the page holding the answer). If that sounds like a plan, I can document the method and rework the FAQ page.

Erm... huh?

Sorry, I didn't get that...

As for drink, I'm a Diet Coke addict.

Sorry, I didn't get that...

What I was referring to was to change the page here to look like this:

FAQ
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How do I boot my kernel?
I get PE operations on non-PE file. Help?
etc

instead of having those page titles which have little meaning to newbies (quote):

FAQ
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Library Calls
Plug-and-play
Unreal Mode
etc

that would save us from remembering those long titles while keeping them accessible as such.

I put a "FAQ redirect" link in there to illustrate the idea.

So no objections if I pull the plug on the old wiki and replace it with a redirect?

No objection here. Congrats everyone who helped in the merge - it's a good job! Hopefully it will be a while until it needs migrating to the next system

Cheers,
Adam