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09 Feb 2011, 18:14

Texas (porn) flood

09 Feb 2011, 18:16

daedalus wrote:I'll gladly write the Alps plate spring article. Maybe the low-profile Alps switches if poked enough. Does this count?

Any content is good content. Now that ripster signed up here too, maybe HE will write the ALPS bigfoot article. He loves writing articles. Oh yes.

09 Feb 2011, 18:52

Changed one of the overview pages to a Category:

wiki/Keyboard_manufacturers_and_brands

Please add the according tags where missing, though I think I got em all for now.

Edit: Also does anyone know how accurate the Model M table is on wikipedia? Sincie that stuff is public domain, we could use it as is, if its good and accurate? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_M_ke ... art_number

10 Feb 2011, 07:15

Frontpage changed around a bit once again.

10 Feb 2011, 13:01

Nice I like it!

13 Feb 2011, 19:24

sixty wrote:
daedalus wrote:I'll gladly write the Alps plate spring article. Maybe the low-profile Alps switches if poked enough. Does this count?

Any content is good content. Now that ripster signed up here too, maybe HE will write the ALPS bigfoot article. He loves writing articles. Oh yes.

Haha - fat chance. I tried to offload the ALPS wiki at Geekhack but nobody is crazy enough to take it. Plus it keeps me ever so humble.

Have you guys seen the latest Dutch Keyboard Forum? Say hi to Princess if you register.

http://clickykeyboards.tk/phpBB3/index.php

13 Feb 2011, 19:29

Oh, forgot to mention. I added the animated gifs to the Cherry MX wiki. Before you accuse me of stealing that idea I had it first but seeing yours reminded me to do it.

Just don't be like these guys in our friendly competition and sue me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdDeui011iA

Holland won. CLEARLY fictional.

13 Feb 2011, 20:06

ripster wrote:http://clickykeyboards.tk/phpBB3/index.php

Yes, I think he made it so he can become the official KBC distributor and get free samples, too. I wish him best of luck!

ripster wrote:Oh, forgot to mention. I added the animated gifs to the Cherry MX wiki. Before you accuse me of stealing that idea I had it first but seeing yours reminded me to do it.

I think you are taking this whole thing a bit too serious. Don't we all have better things to do than going around asking for permissions and accusing other people the whole day? Anyway, while you are on the topic of stealing, is it okay if I crop your pics, add a sharpen filter and then add my own watermarks? That seems to work for some people.

Excellent!

14 Feb 2011, 04:42

OOoops. Sorry about that. I resized the pic for the Wiki since the Wiki module doesn't resize for some odd reason. Since I do my work in Lightroom it popped out with the watermark automatically and I didn't catch it.

Fixed.

14 Feb 2011, 04:50

Darn, just when I was about to recruit Tator Tot as moderator, for punishment.

17 Feb 2011, 19:54

The pain has arrived.

wiki/Category:Cherry_MY

DUN DUN DUNNNNNNNNN

17 Feb 2011, 20:20

The Pain Train. Wooo, wooooo!!!

17 Feb 2011, 21:12

Gotta love the "Keyfeel" description.

Also shouldn't it be an article and not a category?

17 Feb 2011, 21:58

I suppose it could be. Original plan was to make white/black sub articles. Then I realized that there is basically little difference between the two, and no known data on either. So I guess it should indeed be an article now.

19 Feb 2011, 17:33

sixty wrote:The pain has arrived.

wiki/Category:Cherry_MY

DUN DUN DUNNNNNNNNN

Keyfeel : "like prodding a dead octopus" Whahahahahahaha

25 Feb 2011, 21:48

Started a bit on the ALPS wiki, mostly translating Korean stuff. If anyone wants to continue with the 394843 color variants, please do.

25 Feb 2011, 21:53

Where did you learn to speak Korean anyway?

25 Feb 2011, 21:55

bugfix wrote:Where did you learn to speak Korean anyway?

I can only read a few keyboard related terms. When I need stuff like this, I bug friends for a proper translation

25 Feb 2011, 22:03

sixty wrote:Started a bit on the ALPS wiki, mostly translating Korean stuff. If anyone wants to continue with the 394843 color variants, please do.

One thing about the CM name, according to the Geekhack wiki (I think it's a section originally written by Chloe) the tactile switches were officially called SKCM whereas the linears were called SKCL. I'm not sure as to the context in which CM was used.

25 Feb 2011, 22:04

I'm gonna mail ALPS and see if we get an answer

25 Feb 2011, 22:06

I hope you enjoyed the placeholder I had on that page

25 Feb 2011, 22:15

Just mailed ALPS and asked them kindly if they still have any type of information regarding their long discontinued keyboard switches. Lets see what we get, if anything.

26 Feb 2011, 22:42

Be sure to add the finer details concerning all types and colors.

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27 Feb 2011, 06:44

I actually asked ALPS in my email if they have a list of all the colors they ever used and their meaning. I suppose they will just say no

27 Feb 2011, 13:11

If they don't know, you could ask IBM's Watson.

I'm just afraid this might happen.

27 Feb 2011, 14:15

I devised a new Infobox template for switches. I left the old one as is to not break other people's articles. You can see an example of it the buckling spring page

http://deskthority.net/wiki/Buckling_Spring

27 Feb 2011, 14:49

Wow that article starts to look really good!

27 Feb 2011, 15:06

Good job everyone who is working on the wiki! It seems that it is finally growing.

I went ahead and categorized some articles. I'm not sure how to categorize images, but I'll try that next.

27 Feb 2011, 15:07

The use of " in the title of the Alps Bigfoot article. I went to rename it back to Alps CM switch, but I can't seem to be able to do that...

27 Feb 2011, 15:17

I guess we can always put up redirects or something.

I accidentally edited your post again before, we really gotta add text to the icons, lol.

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