[mythtvnz] Mythkiwi.com - MythTV Wiki based site

[Steven Ellis]

On 30/10/2008, at 11:50 AM, Hayden Lovett wrote:

> So you can have copyrighted images if you don't copy it to your  
> site, just link a copy?  I will have to do the same.  Thanks.
>
> Those guides you have look great, but I'm building a community  
> maintained wiki here to centralise MythTV information in NZ.  Having  
> information locked away on a site that only a few people have the  
> key to limits the user interaction and the amount of information  
> that can be collected.  Just take a look at the amount of info  
> Wikipedia collects.  I'm not trying to compete with your sites, I'm  
> trying to make more information available to more people and give  
> MythTV the attention it deserves.

I have the same aims for mythtv.co.nz. A number of people have  
accounts, and they are easy enough to be requested.

As for Wikipedia, I actually spend a bit of time dealing with bad  
edits and abuse for a number of NZ and media related pages.

>
> How about converting some of those guides you have to wikis?  Might  
> help get more people involved with MythTV.
>

Might do.. Which wiki are you using under the hood?


> -Hayden Lovett
>
>
>
> 2008/10/30 Steven Ellis <steven at openmedia.co.nz>
>
> On 30/10/2008, at 10:51 AM, Hayden Lovett wrote:
>
>> I missed that one, I'll take the logos off the "Inserting Channel  
>> Icons" Wiki and leave a link to the freeview site so users can  
>> download their own.  I guess I will just recreate my own for the  
>> control panel, I made a couple of them last night in Blender and  
>> they came out nicely.  If you spot anything else just jump in and  
>> fix it up, thats the beauty of a wiki, anyone can edit it.
>
>
> At this page I make sure I'm liked to the freeviewnz.tv details - http://www.mythtv.co.nz/mythtv/digital-tv/
>
>>
>> Can someone fill in the missing part of the "TV Listings Grabber"  
>> Wiki in the "Using a Different Mythfilldatabase script".  I havn't  
>> used the python script from nice.net.nz before but feel it needs to  
>> be added in here.
>>
>> Does anyone have any ideas/suggestions of any more NZ specific How  
>> tos?
>
>
> There are some already up at www.mythtv.co.nz and at  
> support.mypvr.co.nz
>
> Steve
>
>
>>
>>
>> -Hayden Lovett
>>
>>
>>
>> 2008/10/29 Dean Pemberton <dean at deanpemberton.com>
>> And given recent moves in  NZ Copyright law you may find your ISP  
>> takes
>> your site down for you if TVNZ complains to them.
>>
>>
>> > I'd watch what you are doing with the TV channel logos. They are
>> > copyrighted and you need to make sure you have permission before
>> > hosting them on sites other than freeviewnz.tv.
>> >
>> > Steve
>> >
>>
>>
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