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::Right, but I mean, it's not like there's a page for everyone's big cube method, you know? I'm glad that you are making your own methods but does it really need six articles worth of coverage when there's only one person who uses it (and he isn't THAT fast as far as things go)? Also I don't think the wiki will grow as much as you think, there are only a few people who are really putting work into it, and I don't think anyone else is going to (for example) paste the entirety of Lars Petrus's website onto this wiki just to have the information here. I don't think the wiki should have extensively detailed information on everything - I'd prefer to explain the method in general, and then provide a link to a page that contains ALL the details (recognition of cases, a list of every algorithm, and so on). If you're just going to copy a huge list of algorithms from the forum, why not just explain the steps of your method and then link to the forum post? For example take a look at the Wikipedia page for a book or something, they don't write out the entire work (even if it's just a short story or a play), but rather write a synopsis of it so that you can understand what's going on, and then if you want to read the entire book you can do that somewhere else. By the way I really wish you would spend a bit more time on the formatting, for example the pages on [[PEG]] and [[KBCM_Step_6]] are very hard to read and don't look like a wiki article at all. Maybe you could add some pictures or something (or, again, just link to a forum post where you already have it all written down). [[User:Qqwref|qqwref]] 23:37, 8 November 2008 (UTC)
 
::Right, but I mean, it's not like there's a page for everyone's big cube method, you know? I'm glad that you are making your own methods but does it really need six articles worth of coverage when there's only one person who uses it (and he isn't THAT fast as far as things go)? Also I don't think the wiki will grow as much as you think, there are only a few people who are really putting work into it, and I don't think anyone else is going to (for example) paste the entirety of Lars Petrus's website onto this wiki just to have the information here. I don't think the wiki should have extensively detailed information on everything - I'd prefer to explain the method in general, and then provide a link to a page that contains ALL the details (recognition of cases, a list of every algorithm, and so on). If you're just going to copy a huge list of algorithms from the forum, why not just explain the steps of your method and then link to the forum post? For example take a look at the Wikipedia page for a book or something, they don't write out the entire work (even if it's just a short story or a play), but rather write a synopsis of it so that you can understand what's going on, and then if you want to read the entire book you can do that somewhere else. By the way I really wish you would spend a bit more time on the formatting, for example the pages on [[PEG]] and [[KBCM_Step_6]] are very hard to read and don't look like a wiki article at all. Maybe you could add some pictures or something (or, again, just link to a forum post where you already have it all written down). [[User:Qqwref|qqwref]] 23:37, 8 November 2008 (UTC)
  
lol, you forgot to read the first line of the page ([[KBCM_Step_6]]), I did a cut and paste and that's the only work I have done to it so far, like 2-3 minutes, in the background I am making images for the cases and when I'm done I plan to place them on the page and then also edit everything. After that the page will be of mabe 25% of the lenght it has now = much more compact and easy to follow. That is also why I move the stuff here, that original description is text only with no possibility to use tables (it was originaly a post in the Y-grop), here I can work on the layout as I like. The article about PEG is just the firts version, I plan to edit it more, but hey I can't do it all at once =) I don't have any personal page where I can put this stuff, and if I had one it would not have a wiki (you need a server for that) and the wiki is the reason for me having the energy to do this work at all, it's so much easier to create pages than in HTML, it's less than half the work. If I can't do it here the pages would newer exisist.
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lol, you forgot to read the first line of the page ([[KBCM_Step_6]]), I did a cut and paste and that's the only work I have done to it so far, like 2-3 minutes, in the background I am making images for the cases and when I'm done I plan to place them on the page and then also edit everything. After that the page will be of mabe 25% of the lenght it has now = much more compact and easy to follow. That is also why I move the stuff here, that original description is text only with no possibility to use tables (it was originaly a post in the Y-group), here I can work on the layout as I like. The article about PEG is just the firts version, I plan to edit it more, but hey I can't do it all at once =) I don't have any personal page where I can put this stuff, and if I had one it would not have a wiki (you need a server for that) and the wiki is the reason for me having the energy to do this work at all, it's so much easier to create pages than in HTML, it's less than half the work. If I can't do it here the pages would newer exisist.
  
 
And seriously, I can't see the problem at all, what if my pages are the biggest in the wiki?, what diffrence does that make? // [[User:Kenneth|Kenneth]] 06:06, 9 November 2008 (UTC)
 
And seriously, I can't see the problem at all, what if my pages are the biggest in the wiki?, what diffrence does that make? // [[User:Kenneth|Kenneth]] 06:06, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

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Your CxLL project is a great idea. I'll help out when I can. Good luck with it. --Kirjava 01:26, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

Thank's Thom, hope you can add up CMLL because I don't know that many algs for it // Kenneth 06:01, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

Request

Sounds like a good idea. If we made it so everyone could delete pages, that may get out of hand. Perhaps if we can undo deletion of pages, it wouldn't be that bad. I will see what I can do soon. This week and upcoming weekend will be very busy, but I will get to it ASAP. Great work so far, Kenneth.

How about making it so only registers users can delete pages? I think you can undo this anyway... --Kirjava 12:18, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

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I'll try setting that up soon. -WikiAdmin

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Sorry about that. Fixed now. I was messing around with making TeX work, and apparently messed with the image paths. Thanks for letting me know.

Deleting the picture

I did it because this wiki is very unencyclopedic at the moment, and I was doing cleaning up.

An image should not be in the heading of a section, and I did not find it at all appropriate.

I don't know why it was in the header but I think it should be images of the most common puzzles at the main page. // Kenneth 19:45, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Your Methods

Hey Kenneth, I've noticed you've put a bunch of your methods up (KBCM, PEG, PORT, E15/E35). I don't mean to offend you but the pages you write are kind of difficult to understand, and since you're the only one who really understands the methods it would be very hard for other people to edit the page. It is also weird to see so much information on those pages when the articles for much more common methods like Petrus and EG have much less information. What I'm trying to say is that the pages for your methods seem like something you would put on your personal web page. Perhaps instead of writing all of the information and algorithms on the Wiki article, it would be better if you put the details on your personal webpage (or on a personal article - did you know you can create articles 'under' your username, like User:Kenneth/KBCM/Step_1? That would be a better way to organize your stuff, especially the methods you have not completely written up yet.). When you put so much specific and detailed information in the main directory it says to others that (a) your method is more popular/important, because the article is longer, and (b) the articles about your methods represent the knowledge of the community (even though they are actually just updated by you). qqwref 20:30, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

I don't agree, there is room for my pages here. The problem you see is mainly caused by the fact that it is only me who has written much into the wiki. The unbalance will be a lot better when the wiki grows. I have not planned to write about more of my methods than those I have placed here now, all planned from start, not that I get an idéa and start to write an article about it, these are methods I developed during several years, methods I know are really good, methods I have written long treads about earlier, I just try to collect that writing here, makeing the important parts easier to look over. So the space I use here will not grow much more than that I will compleate the pages that I have started. The pages about PEG and PORT I listed under experimental methods but nowhere else, I think that is OK, maybe it was a stupid idéa to put the algs in the CxLL pages but man, it was no work, just putting the algs there, it was so easy =) I can move out that and put the algs at the pages about the methods instead. The pages about my big cube method, it's pretty obvious it's mine =) // Kenneth 21:14, 8 November 2008 (UTC)
Right, but I mean, it's not like there's a page for everyone's big cube method, you know? I'm glad that you are making your own methods but does it really need six articles worth of coverage when there's only one person who uses it (and he isn't THAT fast as far as things go)? Also I don't think the wiki will grow as much as you think, there are only a few people who are really putting work into it, and I don't think anyone else is going to (for example) paste the entirety of Lars Petrus's website onto this wiki just to have the information here. I don't think the wiki should have extensively detailed information on everything - I'd prefer to explain the method in general, and then provide a link to a page that contains ALL the details (recognition of cases, a list of every algorithm, and so on). If you're just going to copy a huge list of algorithms from the forum, why not just explain the steps of your method and then link to the forum post? For example take a look at the Wikipedia page for a book or something, they don't write out the entire work (even if it's just a short story or a play), but rather write a synopsis of it so that you can understand what's going on, and then if you want to read the entire book you can do that somewhere else. By the way I really wish you would spend a bit more time on the formatting, for example the pages on PEG and KBCM_Step_6 are very hard to read and don't look like a wiki article at all. Maybe you could add some pictures or something (or, again, just link to a forum post where you already have it all written down). qqwref 23:37, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

lol, you forgot to read the first line of the page (KBCM_Step_6), I did a cut and paste and that's the only work I have done to it so far, like 2-3 minutes, in the background I am making images for the cases and when I'm done I plan to place them on the page and then also edit everything. After that the page will be of mabe 25% of the lenght it has now = much more compact and easy to follow. That is also why I move the stuff here, that original description is text only with no possibility to use tables (it was originaly a post in the Y-group), here I can work on the layout as I like. The article about PEG is just the firts version, I plan to edit it more, but hey I can't do it all at once =) I don't have any personal page where I can put this stuff, and if I had one it would not have a wiki (you need a server for that) and the wiki is the reason for me having the energy to do this work at all, it's so much easier to create pages than in HTML, it's less than half the work. If I can't do it here the pages would newer exisist.

And seriously, I can't see the problem at all, what if my pages are the biggest in the wiki?, what diffrence does that make? // Kenneth 06:06, 9 November 2008 (UTC)