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| + | I guess I should acknowledge that the wiki, as of October, has been up for a year. It's our first birthday! And what a great first year. Our statistics page reports that there are 446 pages that are legitimate content pages. I am particularly happy to see that as of this moment there are listed 72 steam locomotives, 18 diesels and 11 Dayliners not to mention all the passenger, freight and MOW equipment! I had always hoped it would be one of the first things that would happen and obviously you all felt the same way and made it happen. | ||
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| + | Our stats also report that 581 files have been uploaded and there have been a total of 95,284 page views, and 9,183 page edits since DARwiki was setup. The file upload number when you thing about it is incredible that that many photos of the D.A.R. have been uploaded. I know in the next year we'll have that many again because there are almost that many that have been contributed and are waiting to be put on by yours truly! | ||
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| + | We are still hoping to find one or two more brave individuals to help edit the wiki on various specialty subjects. With just 2 or three of us right now, we'll only continue to progress at a rather slow rate. | ||
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| + | And with that, I shall close out this update and wish us all another fun D.A.R. year. | ||
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Passwords and usernames for the wiki are now the same as the forum. If you change your password there, it will change here too. However, registering on the forum DOES NOT automatically give you edit access to the wiki. You still must drop a line to the admininstrator and he will enable your access for the asking. See the very last paragraph on this page for more info. | Passwords and usernames for the wiki are now the same as the forum. If you change your password there, it will change here too. However, registering on the forum DOES NOT automatically give you edit access to the wiki. You still must drop a line to the admininstrator and he will enable your access for the asking. See the very last paragraph on this page for more info. | ||
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| + | NOTE: The underlining of links in this wiki is a User Preference for registered users. Please turn it on if you prefer your links always underlined. [[http://dardpi.ca/wiki/index.php?title=Special:Preferences Click here.]] and select the "Misc" tab. | ||
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Revision as of 23:15, 19 November 2008
The Dominion Atlantic Railway Digital Preservation Initiative Wiki Project
The entire DAR DPI web site including this Wiki is my personal donation to the study and preservation of the D.A.R. This railway has always held a fascination for me yet it's history has been elusive; confined to a few words in most publications and lacking in breadth and depth. Thankfully a few authors have taken the time to truly wade in, yet there is a much larger folklore component to the D.A.R. that keeps it's memory alive. By harnessing the technology of the internet and software like this Wiki, I hope we may eventually assemble the bits and pieces that everyone seems to have; their own little "slice" of the D.A.R.; and together hopefully we can build a true panorama of the railway everyone holds dear.
Image Gallery Tours
Although the DARDPI wiki is a serious historical project there are many visitors who just want to cruise the site and enjoy the train photos. Under "Bibliography" you can see many photos grouped together under either the "Photographer" section or the "Collections" sections but the images are grouped by the owner and not subjectively. To accomodate you, we have added additional categories to support grouping the images into broader subject groups, so please enjoy these new categories of train photos.
Wiki Status
November 18, 2008
I guess I should acknowledge that the wiki, as of October, has been up for a year. It's our first birthday! And what a great first year. Our statistics page reports that there are 446 pages that are legitimate content pages. I am particularly happy to see that as of this moment there are listed 72 steam locomotives, 18 diesels and 11 Dayliners not to mention all the passenger, freight and MOW equipment! I had always hoped it would be one of the first things that would happen and obviously you all felt the same way and made it happen.
Our stats also report that 581 files have been uploaded and there have been a total of 95,284 page views, and 9,183 page edits since DARwiki was setup. The file upload number when you thing about it is incredible that that many photos of the D.A.R. have been uploaded. I know in the next year we'll have that many again because there are almost that many that have been contributed and are waiting to be put on by yours truly!
We are still hoping to find one or two more brave individuals to help edit the wiki on various specialty subjects. With just 2 or three of us right now, we'll only continue to progress at a rather slow rate.
And with that, I shall close out this update and wish us all another fun D.A.R. year.
October 27, 2008:
Passwords and usernames for the wiki are now the same as the forum. If you change your password there, it will change here too. However, registering on the forum DOES NOT automatically give you edit access to the wiki. You still must drop a line to the admininstrator and he will enable your access for the asking. See the very last paragraph on this page for more info.
NOTE: The underlining of links in this wiki is a User Preference for registered users. Please turn it on if you prefer your links always underlined. [Click here.] and select the "Misc" tab.
Contributions
I would like to assure contributors that unlike other forums and groups on the internet, the images and text contributed will never be reduced or culled to save space. The whole idea to this wiki is to save absolutely everything possible! This wiki is backed up regularly as well to protect these images and text and the investment in time put in to it by all.
Picture Preferences
All contribution are gratefully accepted but if possible, we would like photos in JPG format saved at 100% quality with no smoothing with a the largest dimension (either H or W) at 1500 pixels. At this size, it is not suitable for publication yet allows enthusiasts a great deal of detail when examining the photos.
A Special Thanks
As the image contributions continue to come in from people's personal collections by uploads and CDs in the mail, I feel a special thanks is in order. Without these contributions the DAR Wiki would just be empty space but as the image database continues to grow, so does the history of the railroad continue to unfold. A special thanks to eBay people who outbid me but shared their winning images with the DAR Wiki as well.
John A. MacIntosh Photographer
This photographer's exceptional collection began selling in January of 2008 on eBay, being sold by his son. There may not exist another collection so broad that defines the 1950's and 60's, the period during the transition from wood and steam to metal and diesel. What is even more exceptional is that it is all in colour. Please enjoy the contributions of many eBay members who have made scans of their purchases available for all to enjoy. I can't thank you enough.
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User Policy
Our policy to eliminate Spam robots and control Spam "content" will be:
1. The Wiki can not be edited by guests. Interested individuals will be allowed to contribute to the Wiki with no questions asked. If you are interested, make sure you have created a user name on the forum and then send an email on the forum by going to your User Control Panel, private messages, to user "STEM" explaining your interest and I will put you on the wiki with your forum username and password right away. Should you have problems with signing up in the forum, please direct your email to me at "Webmeister *at* DARDPI *dot* ca".----
