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WikiBlast! 1000+ entries by TypeCon

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Submitted by Jared Benson : 5.Jul.2005 12.47pm

Join us in our push to get over 1000 entries in the TypoWiki before TypeCon!

Now that you can see which entries need content (look for the red "w") let's pull together to populate the wiki for TypeCon.

The TypoWiki currently holds 433 entries (and innumerable revisions of those entries) - this means 38 new entries per day between now and TypeCon to make our goal. Add hundreds of authors, and it should not be a problem, right? Right?

Well, we want to offer an incentive. The top five (5) wiki authors will receive our new Typophile t-shirt, originally designed by Christopher Simmons. The rest of you will be able to get this tee with your membership(s).

Important Note! Make your entries QUALITY. Creating a swarm of one-line entries will only work AGAINST you. While all input is welcome, only entries with at least 20 words will be factored toward a position in the top 5.

Thomas Lowry

Awesome stuff.

I still get alot of access denied’s while browsing the wiki, and some wikis from the past don’t show up under the track feature (unless thats new?) whats the scoop on that?

paul d hunt

i think there should be some kind of counter that shows how many wiki entries there are on the wiki home page.

James Grieshaber

OK, about the “access denied” thing, this is what I have figured out so far. It appears that the Wiki is making up incorrect addresses for some of the links, and the addresses are case sensitive. For example, when you click on the “Indices” link, it uses this address - http://typophile.com/wiki/indices. But it should be this - http://typophile.com/wiki/Indices. The difference is the cap “I” on “Indices” in the address.

Another example: This link to Blackletter - http://typophile.com/wiki/Blackletter, should have a lower case “b”. So there doesen’t seem to be any rhyme or reason to the link names case.

I have also found this kind of link - http://typophile.com/wiki/sans%20serif, which dosen’t work. the “%20” part of that address represents a “space”, so that is OK. But if I change the first “s” to a “S” then it works. Hmmm.

I have also found this oddity. In a Wiki link to a string like ” Barnhart Brothers & Spindler”, it will truncate it to “Barnhart Brothers”,

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