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Meteor app for coordinating solving for our MIT Mystery Hunt team
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Remove link to Wiki from Puzzle Page #124

Open nothorian opened 10 years ago

nothorian commented 10 years ago

I don't think anyone is actually putting content in the wiki, so this link can be removed and wiki pages can stop being created automatically on puzzle creation. Chat room + Google spreadsheet seems to be working well.

nothorian commented 10 years ago

Another idea is to replace the Wiki link with the link to the spreadsheet and remove the "Open Spreadsheet in new Window" link that currently hovers in the spreadsheet pane. Not sure if that will hurt discoverability of open spreadsheet in new window functionality which I assume is highly popular.

cscott commented 10 years ago

The wiki is there because a lot of puzzles seem like they need a free text or narrative field to summarize how the puzzle works. Historically that was done in the wiki. But now the wiki seems too clunky and purple are trying to write narratives in spreadsheet fields. Sigh. I've been hoping that Google would integrate Google docs and spreadsheets so you could have some sheets of cells and some of text.

But I should probably just have a doc associated with the puzzle, and maybe some sort of way to pick one or the other as the default. Events should default to narrative, for instance...

nothorian commented 10 years ago

I like the idea of having a Google Doc, it's way less overhead than a wiki and makes it much easier to coauthor. No editing conflicts and locks like with a Wiki.

I'm wondering if people would actually use it though. It seems easy enough to add the doc, we can always see for next year. I'd definitely like to have better notes on solving process and where people are stuck. I spent a lot of time repeating myself in the chat as new eyes came into the puzzle.

JeffJakubowski commented 10 years ago

Nothorian write: "I spent a lot of time repeating myself in the chat as new eyes came into the puzzle."

In the old jabber/wiki system, one could type WIKI at the beginning of their chat statement, and it would put that into a special section of the puzzle page. That seemed to be useful, see http://codex.hopto.org/codex/wiki/2011_R1P1

The mechanism was to simply query the chat database and display any lines that started with WIKI.

cscott commented 10 years ago

@JeffJakubowski The idea was that the puzzle tag system would serve this function, or else some free text field like #96 suggests. I wanted something editable; the WIKI tag scheme mostly worked, but sometimes some bad info got added and it was impossible to remove. But it is really powerful to be able to use chat directly to make changes, rather than have to switch to some other page. So maybe I should think about resurrecting something like WIKI.

Torgen commented 6 years ago

Note that wiki links are based on the current index of the puzzle in the round, but that can change when you reorder or delete puzzles. It should probably be based on the _id instead, if it remains at all.