The following tips are much needed...please help.

I'd love to but I'm not really a great unicyclist. But if I get my
grindplates working I'll show how I made them and stuff.

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Yeh, that'd be ideal Robbie. But if you're willing to give some tips,
they'd be more than welcome. Since you haven't been unicycling for as
long as some others (although it has been a while now) the learning
process for some of the skills will be fresher in your mind. Use that
to your advantage if, you'd like to help.

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an drew_carter said:

If you've got anything to contribute the easiest way is probably just to
post it in this thread...

Questions about how the law relates to unicyclists in different
countries are quite common. I wonder if it might be worth "Law" having
its own section, rather than sticking it in miscellaneous.

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Could we use something like this to bring it all together?

http://wikibooks.org/wiki/Unicycling

I am no expert in this area but it looks like a good way to share the
development of documentation about unicycling.

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Danny,
I'll talk to Peter about that, but I'm not sure it's neccessary. Law
related information seems to me to fit well in miscellaneous given that
the site is mainly about tips and tutorials. I have absolutely no doubt
that law info is a really helpful addition to the site though. I'll
talk to Peter about it.

Mike,
This site is being created for an assignment that Peter is doing for
school. I don't see any major difference between that layout and
Peter's...am I missing something? Peter's site will also be able to be
formatted exactly how we want it to be and we'll probably have headings
in there and that sort of thing to group together video tutorials, photo
analyses, and text, and that sort of thing.

Just a general question, do you think it's okay to quote what people
have posted in r.s.u, etc (and give them full credit) without asking
permission first? Because it will require a lot of work otherwise.

Thanks,
Andrew

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andrew_carter said:

*Mike,
This site is being created for an assignment that Peter is doing for
school. I don't see any major difference between that layout and
Peter's...am I missing something? Peter's site will also be able to
be formatted exactly how we want it to be and we'll probably have
headings in there and that sort of thing to group together video
tutorials, photo analyses, and text, and that sort of thing.
*

The big difference is that a wiki, like what mike is pointing at, can be
edited by anyone, rather than needing to be maintained all the time.
Maintaining sites is great when you're enthusiastic and starting off on
a site, but not so when you've had it for a couple of years and need to
update something.

They don't need to be bare and nasty, you can use stylesheets to make
your wiki look nice, like this -
http://www.unu.nottingham.ac.uk/~pineapple/
and they support things like headings and formatting.

We use one at work to track hard to document information, useful tips
etc. and it's really useful for that, because it's so quick to update.

To put in videos or images, once they're in the gallery you can put them
into wiki pages. The combination of a gallery and a well setup wiki is
pretty similar in power as a full html website and much much easier to
add updates to.

The difficult thing about a wiki is that it requires some cgi scripts,
so on unicyclist.com would require you to get gilby to install them.

Joe

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Thanks Joe, I didn't notice that. They do seem very useful, but like I
said, the design of an original website is part of Peter's assignment.
I know I wouldn't mind updating the site for many years if Peter can
tell me how to do it (once it's all finished).

John Glazer sent me some great tips on a few different areas. I'm sure
they didn't take him very long to do and they will most likely really
help somebody trying to learn those skills. Is nobody else willing to
spend two minutes to write tips on something? There are lots to choose
from. 🙂

Thanks,
Andrew

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Check your PM's. 😉.

greets,
Tassilo

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andrew_carter wondered:

Quoted message said:

Just a general question, do you think it's okay to quote what people
have posted in r.s.u, etc (and give them full credit) without asking
permission first? Because it will require a lot of work otherwise.

If someone doesn't set their headers to prevent their posts being cached
by Google then I think it's fair to assume that their posts are intended
to provide a permanent source of information to others. So yes, I think
it's OK to quote what people have posted, with credit.

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andrew_carter said:

*Thanks Joe, I didn't notice that. They do seem very useful, but like
I said, the design of an original website is part of Peter's
assignment. I know I wouldn't mind updating the site for many years
if Peter can tell me how to do it (once it's all finished).
*

A wiki is an original website, just one that happens to be editable once
it is done. It would be more of a technical challenge to do though,
because he'd have to learn a bit about server side stuff and learn what
a wiki is and how to integrate one into a website effectively.

unicycling.org is a perfect example of a site that would be better off
as a wiki. It's something like ten years old, it's got loads of data on
there, but pretty much any part of it that can be is a bit out of date,
for example the airseat instructions are only for miyata seats, there
are no videos of anything, the equipment suggestions are way out of
date, there's practically nothing relating to muni/trials etc. I've got
some mounting videos in my gallery, if it was a wiki, I could just click
on edit this page on the mounting page and then add a link to them. If
anyone finds a description that isn't clear, they can quickly fix it.

The other cool thing about wikis is that things get automatically linked
around, for example if you've got a page called "Standard Mount" and you
put standard mount into your list of freestyle skills, it automatically
links it to that page.

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*

A wiki is an original website, just one that happens to be editable
once it is done. It would be more of a technical challenge to do
though, because he'd have to learn a bit about server side stuff and
learn what a wiki is and how to integrate one into a website
effectively.

unicycling.org is a perfect example of a site that would be better off
as a wiki. It's something like ten years old, it's got loads of data
on there, but pretty much any part of it that can be is a bit out of
date, for example the airseat instructions are only for miyata seats,
there are no videos of anything, the equipment suggestions are way out
of date, there's practically nothing relating to muni/trials etc. I've
got some mounting videos in my gallery, if it was a wiki, I could just
click on edit this page on the mounting page and then add a link to
them. If anyone finds a description that isn't clear, they can quickly
fix it.

The other cool thing about wikis is that things get automatically
linked around, for example if you've got a page called "Standard
Mount" and you put standard mount into your list of freestyle skills,
it automatically links it to that page.

Joe *

I think there is something very compelling about being able to instantly
correct any errors you find on a web site.. However I do understand
that in Andrew's case he is trying to assist Peter with a school poject
of creating a web site so this thread is more concentrated on helping
provide new content for that project (fair enough). I do hope however
that a wiki Unicycling book (or what ever it should be called) could
grow out of this project.

I also think that the Wiki structure might lend its self to gathering
some of the information for Andrew & Peter to use.

Anyone fance giving it a go? Then we can all see what has been
contributed & be encouraged to help... Please give it a try anyway
here:
http://wikibooks.org/wiki/Unicycling

Thanks,
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Quoted message said:

I also think that the Wiki structure might lend its self to gathering
some of the information for Andrew & Peter to use.

Sounds like a great idea to me.

Andrew

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Wow, whoever has written those tips that are up at
http://wikibooks.org/wiki/Unicycling , thanks a lot.

Andrew

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YES - everybody add lots of tips to wiki books so me and andrew can link
to it on our site, the more tips on there the better our site will
get!
TIPS TIPS TIPS

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hey andrew.
i'd be willing to do some of the tutorials for street stuff. am i the
one you were referring to about no footers? cause im not really doing
those down sets yet, just flat ground. i've hit some one footers though
down 5 and 6 sets. and im pretty good at the footplants and grinding...
and footplant to grinds (in jeff groves video spaced out there will be 2
i think). so if you want me to do a few, i probably could. just email me
at kevin_mcmullin(at)hotmail(dot)com.

see ya, Kevin

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Quoted message said:

would you mind if i transalate some of your contents to my web??

Not at all. It's all for the benefit of the unicycling community. Go
ahead. A lot of the written tips on our site will be taken from the
unicyclist.com forums anyway. I've just borrowed about 6000 words of
tips from unicyclist.com and given the writers credit underneath each
one. I hope nobody has any strong objection to this...it would take far
too long to ask each individual person permission and they have written
it on a public forum anyway.

So yes, please use any of the content on our site that you want.

I just had a look through your site - it's fantastic! I'm surprised at
how similar Spanish is to French. I could make sence of a lot of what
was written. 🙂

I love the background in the 'Monociclistas' section. Is there anywhere
we can see the original of this picture? It's really nice.

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Quoted message said:

would you mind if i transalate some of your contents to my web??

Not at all. It's all for the benefit of the unicycling community. Go
ahead. A lot of the written tips on our site will be taken from the
unicyclist.com forums anyway. I've just borrowed about 6000 words of
tips from unicyclist.com and given the writers credit underneath each
one. I hope nobody has any strong objection to this...it would take far
too long to ask each individual person permission and they have written
it on a public forum anyway.

So yes, please use any of the content on our site that you want.

I just had a look through your site - it's fantastic! I'm surprised at
how similar Spanish is to French. I could make sence of a lot of what
was written. 🙂

I love the background in the 'Monociclistas' section. Is there anywhere
we can see the original of this picture? It's really nice.

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