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About the Ogre Wiki and how it's organised.
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!Introduction
This page tries to explain what this wiki is, how it's organised and the thought behind it.
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!Motivation
The MediaWiki powered Ogre Wiki is a great resource, but it suffers from several problems:
* The information is hard to find: pages get lost and its not easy to get an overview.
* The information therein is not kept up to date.

Wouldn't it be nice to have a structured wiki instead?
Where each and every page is part of a hierarchy?

There's a lot of quality content in our wiki, so why not take maximum advantage of that wealth of information?

And, in the end, make it easier to update and even extend that resource?

The new Ogre Wiki tries to satisfy those questions.

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!Structure
The best answer to disorder is order.(:smile:)

Picture a room full of randomly arranged books, and imagine trying to find the information you need.
You realise that you spend an inordinate amount of time trying to keep them organised - and one day you become fed up with it.
After much thought, you decide to get six bookshelves to help you organise them.
That would serve as the first, and most important, step towards a total overview.

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!!The Main Sections
The wiki is divided into 6 sections: '''Tutorials''', '''Cookbook''', '''Libraries''', '''Tools''', '''Development''' and '''Community'''.

Those are - under the hood - ordered, hierarchical structures, where each page is either a child, parent or both.

A birds eye view of the sections and what's in them:
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{BOX(class="Layout_box6",width="100%")}{DIV(class="bigBold")}1) Tutorials{DIV}
* Basic Tutorials
* Intermediate Tutorials
* In-Depth Tutorials
* External Tutorials
* Older Tutorials
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{BOX(class="Layout_box6",width="100%")}{DIV(class="bigBold")}2) Cookbook{DIV}
*Codebank
*Snippets
*Experiences
*Articles
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{BOX(class="Layout_box6",width="100%")}{DIV(class="bigBold")}3) Libraries{DIV}
*Libraries
*Assembling a Toolset
*Alternative Languages
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*Tools
** Exporters
*DCC Tutorials
*DCC Articles
*DCC Resources
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{BOX(class="Layout_box6",width="100%")}{DIV(class="bigBold")}5) Development{DIV}
*Roadmap
*Building Ogre
*Installing An SDK
*Setting Up An Application
*FAQs
*Summer of Code
*Core Ogre Articles
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{BOX(class="Layout_box6",width="100%")}{DIV(class="bigBold")}6) Community{DIV}
*Project Using Ogre
*Contractors
*Recommended Reading
*Wiki
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!!!Tutorials

!!!Cookbook

!!!Libraries

!!!Tools

!!!Development

!!!Community
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!!The Main Decisions
!!!All pages must belong to a structure
!!!Ogre Lexicon page names are prepended with a dash

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!!Where To Put It
This wiki has been carefully organised to ensure a logical and intuitive structure, but even so, some things are not easily categorised and could belong in more than one section.

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!!!Pages

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!!!Files and Images

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!Features

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!!Productivity

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!!Overview

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!!Nothing Gets Lost

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!!Hot Out Of The Oven

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!!!The Ogre Wiki Tracker

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!!!The Codebank

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!!!The Ogre Lexicon

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!Plusses And Minuses
!!More Power More Responsibility
!!The Inevitable Tiki Versus MediaWiki
Let's put it this way:
{QUOTE()}Where MediaWiki is C, Tiki is C++.{QUOTE}
That sums it up nicely.

To elaborate a bit, let's look at the differences:
Categories Tags
HTML CSS
Speciality Versatility

!!!Tiki Contributions
!!!!phpBB Authentication
!!!!Plugin Toc Improvement
!!!!Alternative Center Tag
!!!Ogre Wiki Specifics
!!!!Plugin LEX
!!!!Plugin WIKIPEDIA
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!!!!Custom Structure Administration Templates
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!Conclusion

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!What Now?

!!Use Cases
((Ogre Wiki Use Cases))

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