Deskthority Wiki Contest 2012!
- 7bit
- Location: Berlin, DE
- Main keyboard: Tipro / IBM 3270 emulator
- Main mouse: Logitech granite for SGI
- Favorite switch: MX Lock
- DT Pro Member: 0001
Please write high quality wiki articles and illustrate them
with your best keyboard pictures or technical drawings!
Here is the link to start: http://deskthority.net/wiki/Main_Page
The wiki contest is about quality, not quantity!
The total number of articles is irrelevant!
However, the more quality articles a member writes,
the higher are the chances to win!
The Rules
Everybody who had an account at Deskthority before this contest started may participate.
If 2 or more members write at an article, the credits go always to the one
who contributed the main part. If there are more than one who contributed
significant content to an article, the price is split up.
There are 3 stages to find out the winners:
- Articles can be contributed until the 9th June.
- Then, everybody can nominate other members until the 14th June.
- A jury will decide who will be the nominees for the last stage of the contest:
The voting to find the winners out of the nominees will end on the 18th June.
All winners will be invited to the
International Deskthority Keyboard Party 2012 in Best.[1]
Prizes
The winners may choose from the following prices:
Group A
- NIB Bud Keypad (Hall Effect)
- Tipro KMQ-128 with some extra relegendable key caps
- MX 11800
- TypeMatrix JME-2020DE
Group B
- Round 3 key caps I will never use
- Spectravideo SV 328 (with thick doubleshots)
- Cherry G80-11900LTMUS
- Mystery prize
Group C
- Cherry G84-4400LPBUS-0
- 50 Cherry M7 switches
- Chery MX sample bag (red, green, blue, ..., black, lock)
- G80-2551 without key caps
Group D
- Nokia-Data with numpad
- Gateway 2000
- Ideazon Z-Board
- Mystery prize
The 1st prize is 4 items, 1 of each group.
The 2nd prize is 3 items, 1 of each group.
The 3rd and any other prize is 2 items, 1 of each group.
The 4th and any other prize is 1 item of any group.
The Jury
To become part of the jury, you must
a) contribute pizes which are related to input devices.
b) your contribution must be accepted by me!
All jury members (except me) may participate in the contest.
Jury members are:
- HaaTa
- webwit
- hoggy
- 7bit
Rules for nomination
Nobody may nominate her or himself.
People who bribe others to nominate them or set up a 2nd account
for that purpose are being disqualified from the contest. Same for
people who just copy&paste from other sites, even if it is content
they wrote themselves!
No pictures with water marks may be used! Uploading of these might
be according to the DT wiki policy, but leads to disqualification from
the contest!
Edit wars are not tolerated. Improvement of other's articles is allowed,
but does not count as contribution, unless really significant content is
added which is as valuable as the original content.
fine-print:
--------------------------
[1] Traveling to the Party is at the winner's own risk and costs!
with your best keyboard pictures or technical drawings!
Here is the link to start: http://deskthority.net/wiki/Main_Page
The wiki contest is about quality, not quantity!
The total number of articles is irrelevant!
However, the more quality articles a member writes,
the higher are the chances to win!
The Rules
Everybody who had an account at Deskthority before this contest started may participate.
If 2 or more members write at an article, the credits go always to the one
who contributed the main part. If there are more than one who contributed
significant content to an article, the price is split up.
There are 3 stages to find out the winners:
- Articles can be contributed until the 9th June.
- Then, everybody can nominate other members until the 14th June.
- A jury will decide who will be the nominees for the last stage of the contest:
The voting to find the winners out of the nominees will end on the 18th June.
All winners will be invited to the
International Deskthority Keyboard Party 2012 in Best.[1]
Prizes
The winners may choose from the following prices:
Group A
- NIB Bud Keypad (Hall Effect)
- Tipro KMQ-128 with some extra relegendable key caps
- MX 11800
- TypeMatrix JME-2020DE
Group B
- Round 3 key caps I will never use
- Spectravideo SV 328 (with thick doubleshots)
- Cherry G80-11900LTMUS
- Mystery prize
Group C
- Cherry G84-4400LPBUS-0
- 50 Cherry M7 switches
- Chery MX sample bag (red, green, blue, ..., black, lock)
- G80-2551 without key caps
Group D
- Nokia-Data with numpad
- Gateway 2000
- Ideazon Z-Board
- Mystery prize
The 1st prize is 4 items, 1 of each group.
The 2nd prize is 3 items, 1 of each group.
The 3rd and any other prize is 2 items, 1 of each group.
The 4th and any other prize is 1 item of any group.
The Jury
To become part of the jury, you must
a) contribute pizes which are related to input devices.
b) your contribution must be accepted by me!
All jury members (except me) may participate in the contest.
Jury members are:
- HaaTa
- webwit
- hoggy
- 7bit
Rules for nomination
Nobody may nominate her or himself.
People who bribe others to nominate them or set up a 2nd account
for that purpose are being disqualified from the contest. Same for
people who just copy&paste from other sites, even if it is content
they wrote themselves!
No pictures with water marks may be used! Uploading of these might
be according to the DT wiki policy, but leads to disqualification from
the contest!
Edit wars are not tolerated. Improvement of other's articles is allowed,
but does not count as contribution, unless really significant content is
added which is as valuable as the original content.
fine-print:
--------------------------
[1] Traveling to the Party is at the winner's own risk and costs!
Last edited by 7bit on 18 Apr 2012, 20:48, edited 7 times in total.
- webwit
- Wild Duck
- Location: The Netherlands
- Main keyboard: Model F62
- Favorite switch: IBM beam spring
- DT Pro Member: 0000
- Contact:
Good stuff! I want to contribute the following to the prize pool:
A TypeMatrix JME-2020DE
A Cherry G80-11900LTMUS
A Cherry G84-4400LPBUS-0
A TypeMatrix JME-2020DE
A Cherry G80-11900LTMUS
A Cherry G84-4400LPBUS-0
- 7bit
- Location: Berlin, DE
- Main keyboard: Tipro / IBM 3270 emulator
- Main mouse: Logitech granite for SGI
- Favorite switch: MX Lock
- DT Pro Member: 0001
Ah, thank you webwit! How honorable of you!webwit wrote:Good stuff! I want to contribute the following to the prize pool:
A TypeMatrix JME-2020DE
A Cherry G80-11900LTMUS
A Cherry G84-4400LPBUS-0
Consider yourself part of the jury.
- webwit
- Wild Duck
- Location: The Netherlands
- Main keyboard: Model F62
- Favorite switch: IBM beam spring
- DT Pro Member: 0000
- Contact:
I'm gonna win this anyway by writing the Definite Guide to the Fujitsu Peerless.
- 7bit
- Location: Berlin, DE
- Main keyboard: Tipro / IBM 3270 emulator
- Main mouse: Logitech granite for SGI
- Favorite switch: MX Lock
- DT Pro Member: 0001
Help yourself:ripster wrote:I'm more into Quantity than Quality.
It's the American Way.
- Attachments
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- 7bit
- Location: Berlin, DE
- Main keyboard: Tipro / IBM 3270 emulator
- Main mouse: Logitech granite for SGI
- Favorite switch: MX Lock
- DT Pro Member: 0001
OK, but if this goes on that way, we have more people in the jury than in the contest.hoggy wrote:I've got an iso mx11800 that I'd like to donate.
BTW: Jury members are allowed to participate in the contest, so there is no excuse!
- 7bit
- Location: Berlin, DE
- Main keyboard: Tipro / IBM 3270 emulator
- Main mouse: Logitech granite for SGI
- Favorite switch: MX Lock
- DT Pro Member: 0001
http://deskthority.net/wiki/Controller_matrix_tracesoff wrote:so change the title to 'random trade party, online only'
Carry on!
- off
- Location: the crapper, NL, EU
- DT Pro Member: -
)(@%*&(*&%)#$##7bit wrote:http://deskthority.net/wiki/Controller_matrix_tracesoff wrote:so change the title to 'random trade party, online only'
Carry on!
I was hoping you could leave that out Esp seeing how I'll have to start a post begging people to log their work there in a tedious format (also I'm not tracing more boards than I need to for personal use, at least not this way- i scanned the thing and drew every line manually.. paint.net didn't take to the worn down traces as one whole) and scour my bookmarks and generally search for those hidden posts with tracing info; I'd say that wiki is a work that grows with time and takes years to even be anywhere near complete/satisfying.
On that note, what's the preferred method of visualising matrices; this seemed most appropriate seeing this shows the original pcb lines for those that care, but it's not actually in matrix format
*Also there's that compendium on (diy)controllers that I'd started but not yet returned to (to make something useful out of); that at some distant point should prob be wikified, although mixing custom firmwares into the wiki.. I don't know :/
edit: now this seems like a b* to read xD
- 7bit
- Location: Berlin, DE
- Main keyboard: Tipro / IBM 3270 emulator
- Main mouse: Logitech granite for SGI
- Favorite switch: MX Lock
- DT Pro Member: 0001
off wrote:)(@%*&(*&%)#$##
Nobody forces you to contribute or to participate in the contest.
Also, I did not criticise you, "carry on!" I said, not "move on!".
- 7bit
- Location: Berlin, DE
- Main keyboard: Tipro / IBM 3270 emulator
- Main mouse: Logitech granite for SGI
- Favorite switch: MX Lock
- DT Pro Member: 0001
Why should I not play with the font size?mintberryminuscrunch wrote:please stop playing with the font size
Last edited by 7bit on 18 Apr 2012, 22:01, edited 1 time in total.
- off
- Location: the crapper, NL, EU
- DT Pro Member: -
Myeah, was trying to visualise the off-topicness by fontsize.
@7b (and what little Spy saved of before the edit ), I know I know, just saying that I will probably continue on that, but that, esp considering it a community project, that it has around 0.01% chance of being relevant here
edit: Relevancy I forgot: nice initiative!
@7b (and what little Spy saved of before the edit ), I know I know, just saying that I will probably continue on that, but that, esp considering it a community project, that it has around 0.01% chance of being relevant here
edit: Relevancy I forgot: nice initiative!
- webwit
- Wild Duck
- Location: The Netherlands
- Main keyboard: Model F62
- Favorite switch: IBM beam spring
- DT Pro Member: 0000
- Contact:
What if someone joins tomorrow and writes the best wiki article ever?Everybody who had an account at Deskthority before this contest started may participate.
- 7bit
- Location: Berlin, DE
- Main keyboard: Tipro / IBM 3270 emulator
- Main mouse: Logitech granite for SGI
- Favorite switch: MX Lock
- DT Pro Member: 0001
He will be a good candidate to win the Deskthority Wiki Contest in 2013.
ps: If nobody is as good as me in writing wiki articles, there will be no winner and all items belong automatically to my collection.
ps: If nobody is as good as me in writing wiki articles, there will be no winner and all items belong automatically to my collection.
- HaaTa
- Master Kiibohd Hunter
- Location: San Jose, California, USA
- Main keyboard: Depends the day
- Main mouse: CST L-TracX
- Favorite switch: Fujitsu Leaf Spring/Topre/BS/Super Alps
- DT Pro Member: 0006
- Contact:
Btw, if someone wants to write an article but doesn't know what to write about. PM me or ask me on IRC. I can provide an initial brain dump
Got loads of content for potential articles, and most of them require external research to substantiate my opinions (e.g. patent browsing, product lineage) or just straight research because I actually know very little. And there is no way I'll be able to get to all of them, even over the next year. Especially as my collection is still growing...
Some day, I might do a section on keyboard protocols...but that is a long ways away. And will require me to draw lots of diagrams...
Got loads of content for potential articles, and most of them require external research to substantiate my opinions (e.g. patent browsing, product lineage) or just straight research because I actually know very little. And there is no way I'll be able to get to all of them, even over the next year. Especially as my collection is still growing...
Some day, I might do a section on keyboard protocols...but that is a long ways away. And will require me to draw lots of diagrams...
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- Location: Ugly American
- Main keyboard: As Long As It is Helvetica
- Main mouse: Mickey
- Favorite switch: Wanna Switch? Well, I Certainly Did!
- DT Pro Member: -
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- Location: London, UK
- Main keyboard: Filco TKL Black
- Main mouse: Logitech G700
- DT Pro Member: -
That article is kind of broken and severely lacking in content. I thought you'd have more to say about fonts since you're Mr. Typography. Also, did anyone other than yourself nominate you? 'Cause you know you're not allowed to do that, right?
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- Location: Ugly American
- Main keyboard: As Long As It is Helvetica
- Main mouse: Mickey
- Favorite switch: Wanna Switch? Well, I Certainly Did!
- DT Pro Member: -
Thanks!
I was wondering that....
Font CONTENT is all at Geekhack. Getting it out of there is my current problem.
http://geekhack.org/showthread.php?2931 ... ge-Ranking
http://geekhack.org/showthread.php?2817 ... ont-Lesson
Can one of you be so kind as to give this guy
http://geekhack.org/showthread.php?3226 ... to-Ripster
this link?
http://deskthority.net/off-topic-f10/ba ... tml#p49283
I was wondering that....
Font CONTENT is all at Geekhack. Getting it out of there is my current problem.
http://geekhack.org/showthread.php?2931 ... ge-Ranking
http://geekhack.org/showthread.php?2817 ... ont-Lesson
Can one of you be so kind as to give this guy
http://geekhack.org/showthread.php?3226 ... to-Ripster
this link?
http://deskthority.net/off-topic-f10/ba ... tml#p49283
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- Location: Ugly American
- Main keyboard: As Long As It is Helvetica
- Main mouse: Mickey
- Favorite switch: Wanna Switch? Well, I Certainly Did!
- DT Pro Member: -
In America we nominate ourselves. Such an arrogant young country.ped wrote:That article is kind of broken and severely lacking in content. I thought you'd have more to say about fonts since you're Mr. Typography. Also, did anyone other than yourself nominate you? 'Cause you know you're not allowed to do that, right?
Anyway I ignored this one.No pictures with water marks may be used! Uploading of these might
be according to the DT wiki policy, but leads to disqualification from
the contest!
Last edited by ripster on 10 Jun 2012, 03:54, edited 1 time in total.
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- Location: Ugly American
- Main keyboard: As Long As It is Helvetica
- Main mouse: Mickey
- Favorite switch: Wanna Switch? Well, I Certainly Did!
- DT Pro Member: -
Yeah, but the image manager in the wiki truly sucks.
Plus I have no HTML Skillz.
A simple copy/pasta for example moved this over to OCN.
http://www.overclock.net/t/1255538/help ... t_17215757
Except for the Attachment images. Those are borked in my subforum for some unknown but suspicious reason.
Plus I have no HTML Skillz.
A simple copy/pasta for example moved this over to OCN.
http://www.overclock.net/t/1255538/help ... t_17215757
Except for the Attachment images. Those are borked in my subforum for some unknown but suspicious reason.