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Help wanted: the FAQ system

The wiki ( http://wiki.xda-developers.com ) contains a tiny start of what could become a very nice FAQ. I do not have time over the next weeks to expand what's there, and appeal to any and all with some time on their hands to please see if they can add structure, or just questions and their answers. Feel free to change it until it's good, that's what wikis are for.

Nice post peter
Question for you
How would you feel if you had spent over 2 months building a wiki for the blueangel, posting the files to the ftp site, to find that they got deleted on the 16 .
Pm 2 admins, one picking up the pm but not repliying, the orher not picking up the pm.
Rebuilding the trashed ftp site, re linking the wiki links, Posting to the ftp non public thread, reading that it will happen soon, watching the ftp site getting trashed again (today) and then reading your reqest?
Ps you have a pm from me datedted 16 march, feel like picking it up?

Why this beautifull FAQ (http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=HTC_Blueangel) is not visible for ordinary people? I found it by accident.

But it is!
Top of screen to the right is the link wiki.xda-developers.com
On that page under HTC Device you will find Blueangel
The Blueangel Link gets you to that page

Never thought that behind these WiKi activities this FAQ is hidden - put another link under this WiKi.XDA-devloppers.com link with something like "How Blue Angel works" or "Blue Angel FAQ" or "Knowledgebase". So a person who visits for the first time immediatly sees this fine product of hard labor.

What happen to the Magician section ? Are we being ignore ???
Well, I really love your job, however, my device is being left out !!

Wiki like the forum is user driven. In short if no user feels the need or want to update wiki then it just does not happen.
You dont need to be a moderator to add pages in wiki, you dont even need to be good in english for somebody down the line will add or correct your page.

I have to say - that's a real shame.
There's a lot of information requested on these forums that has been requested before - but often it's buried deep in a confusing thread (most recently the splash image tweaks for the HTC Wizard - I have no idea what util tweaks what splash).
I just created a Wiki page (search for my username, I guess - it's not really linked from anything much yet), and I plan to create more related to the Wizard as time becomes available.
Wikis are inherently much better at giving concise information than an open-discussion forum... wish people would use it.

Help with the SiteManagement Project
Please see the following forum topic to see how you can further help with the FAQ Wiki Project:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?p=226744#226744
We need as much help as possible to create a sustainable platform in order to further create a workable and informative website, so please check out this topic and see what you can do to help!

Hi guys, is it possible to have access to google-analytics results? Since we need to know for what the users are looking for - the most common search, how they act in site (in wiki! and so on)
Then we can make THE wiki.

Posting to the ftp non public thread, reading that it will happen soon

how change the nick?

numaverick said:
how change the nick?
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Ask a Mod or Admin, only they can make that.

orb3000 said:
Ask a Mod or Admin, only they can make that.
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Only the admin (Flar) can change them.
Please send a PM request it.
Ta
Dave

New File Sharing site - perhaps we can use this for ROMs?

I found this site while browsing reddit:
http://filevo.com/
Reddit discussion:
http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/c70zv/hi_reddit_ive_made_a_filesharing_site_which_i/
Perhaps the devs can start uploading to this site and see how well it works
PS: I am in no way affiliated with this site. I just want to get the best experience for all XDA users.

[Q] How do I unsubscribe from a *forum* (not a thread)?

As I've progressed through devices, I've added subscriptions to device forums. Some of these I'd like to remove from my list of subscriptions, but I can't find any way to do this.
When clicking Forum Tools in said forums, I am only given the option to subscribe (again?).
Looking forward to any hints you may give.
Cheers, and thanks for a fantastic community!

ugumba said:
As I've progressed through devices, I've added subscriptions to device forums. Some of these I'd like to remove from my list of subscriptions, but I can't find any way to do this.
When clicking Forum Tools in said forums, I am only given the option to subscribe (again?).
Looking forward to any hints you may give.
Cheers, and thanks for a fantastic community!
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Looks like the link is missing, it's a bug in the new theme
You can either hand craft the URL like so http://forum.xda-developers.com/subscription.php?do=addsubscription&f=263
or
use the XDA Classic theme (theme selector is bottom left) - this has the Unsubscribe menu option.
Dave

Now fixed (by the admins )

[Q] Where is the HTC Mega: Touch2 section?

I can't see it on the main forum page. Where it go?
Ouch I found the way for see it:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/filter.php?cat=Windows-Mobile
Sorry...

It's on the Legacy Template
http://www.xda-developers.com/announcements/eight-forums-going-to-legacy-template-today/

legacy template

i have the same problem too. i subscribe to the forum. and it is not listed any more on my subscription list. i know its there as on the thread i subscribe. it still shows that i am subscribe to the forum. i have to go long way just to get to the forum main page i.e search mega, click thread, click to main forum link.
is there a way to solve this?

Forum RSS feeds

Sorry for the stupid question, i'm sure the forums had RSS links for each individual section of the forum but I can't seem to find it any more.
Could someone point me in the right direction or have they been removed?

anyone?

For some reason we don't have an icon for it.
Here's the URL for this forums' RSS feed:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/external.php?type=RSS2&forumids=263
Just replace the forumids=xxx with the forumId of the one you want to subscribe to.
Thanks
Dave

thanks, just what I was after

I've searched through the XDA archives but can't find any way to subscribe to an individual thread (not just forum ID) via RSS. Is this something that currently works?
Thanks.

"feeds.feedburner.com/xda-developers/ShsH"

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"feeds.feedburner.com/xda-developers/ShsH"
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Hi lio, thanks for that. I'm still trying to generate an RSS feed for within a thread though. So for instance I'm trying to get a feed for the following thread data:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/external.php?type=RSS2&forumids=765
... and feedburner gives me the following two feeds:
Code:
xda-developers - Desire HD Android Development - RSS Feed: [url]http://forum.xda-developers.com/external.php?type=RSS2&forumids=765[/url]
xda-developers RSS Feed: [url]http://forum.xda-developers.com/external.php?type=RSS2[/url]
... both of which are not generating from within the thread, they're just listing the different forums themselves. If you see what I mean?

These links no longer work
Is there some other link that we can use?

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I know this is an old thread, but I'd settle for an RSS of my "Subscribed Threads & Forums" page. That alone would be enough for me...

General_Mayhem said:
I know this is an old thread, but I'd settle for an RSS of my "Subscribed Threads & Forums" page. That alone would be enough for me...
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I agree rather read on pc .

Hello i was wondering if someone will reenable the main rss because i was trying to use rss and it will not worl at all
THANKS
Sent On A Android Froyo Phone
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Seems no viable solution exists...

I too would like this. I see XDA has their own feed reader app for the forum. Maybe they disabled RSS feeds so that we'd be forced to use their app so they can make $$? Kind of gay, RSS feeds allow me to check multiple forums from one list on one app.
Closest thing I found searching the forums is this: https://feeds.feedburner.com/xda-developers/ and maybe it can be modified to show the forum that you want?