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| ===== About Teh Guide ===== | ===== About Teh Guide ===== |
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| Teh Guide is a little wiki that [[user/rsheyd]] created around 2023/09/05 to document things he learned, in a single organized source of information. He hoped to make it a public wiki that anyone can edit, kind of like Wikipedia. | Teh Guide is a little wiki created around September 5th, 2023, to document things in a single organized source of information. |
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| He always liked the idea of having [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrases_from_The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy#The_Answer_to_the_Ultimate_Question_of_Life,_the_Universe,_and_Everything_is_42|a guide to life, universe, and everything]], and this little wiki is an homage to that. | It was also inspired by a fictional [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrases_from_The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy#The_Answer_to_the_Ultimate_Question_of_Life,_the_Universe,_and_Everything_is_42|guide to life, universe, and everything]]. |
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| ==== Info Not Found Elsewhere ==== | ==== Info Not Found Elsewhere ==== |
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| Additionally, this wiki served as a repository of information that Roman hasn't been able to find on the internet, or if he found it, the information was significantly obscured by ads, access restrictions, or an unclear interface. | Additionally, this wiki serves as a repository of information that Roman hasn't been able to find on the internet, or if he found it, the information was significantly obscured by ads, access restrictions, or an unclear interface. |
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| In the past, he would write a blog post on his blog, www.coderoman.com. That worked fine, but didn't seem like the best way to share reference-style information. | In the past, he would write a blog post on his blog, www.coderoman.com. That worked fine, but didn't seem like the best way to share reference-style information. |
| === StackOverflow / StackExchange === | === StackOverflow / StackExchange === |
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| Later on, he started using stackexchange websites like www.stackoverflow.com to share the questions he was researching and the answers he found. However, the editors on those sites were overzealous with blocking the information provided, and after a few occasions of my question + answer being closed or incorrectly marked as off-topic, he decided that it wasn't worth his time trying to contribute to those websites. | Later on, he started using stackexchange websites like www.stackoverflow.com to share the questions he was researching and the answers he found. However, the editors on those sites were overzealous with blocking the information provided, and after a few occasions of his questions + answers being closed or incorrectly marked as off-topic, he decided that it wasn't worth his time trying to contribute to those websites. |
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| * An example of this was his question about how to create a chat group without a 2nd participant in WhatsApp, as described in the [[WhatsApp]] article. The question was marked as off-topic in the webapps stackexchange, and the editor said it should be sent to the WhatsApp developers as a feature request. This prevented Roman from finding, or being able to share, a workaround that people can use to accomplish this need. | * An example of this was his question about how to create a chat group without a 2nd participant in WhatsApp, as described in the [[WhatsApp]] article. The question was marked as off-topic in the webapps stackexchange, and the editor said it should be sent to the WhatsApp developers as a feature request. This prevented Roman from finding, or being able to share, a workaround that people can use to accomplish this need. |
| === Wikipedia === | === Wikipedia === |
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| Roman thought Wikipedia was amazing. He wished it wasn't so [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_not#Wikipedia_is_not_a_manual,_guidebook,_textbook,_or_scientific_journal|against being a guidebook]], or so strict in so many ways. If that was the case, he would have contributed there instead of creating and updating this website. | Roman thought Wikipedia was amazing (and probably still does). He wished it wasn't so [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_not#Wikipedia_is_not_a_manual,_guidebook,_textbook,_or_scientific_journal|against being a guidebook]], or so strict in so many ways. If that was the case, he would have contributed there instead of creating and updating this website. |
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| [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Five_pillars|Wikipedia's five pillars]] included the following directives that he had issues with: | [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Five_pillars|Wikipedia's five pillars]] included the following directives that he had issues with: |
