Hi! Thanks for the response
 

Hi!

Thanks for the responses concerning the Wiki (http://openfoamwiki.net/index.php). So far they were good, so I'm moving on with that.

From a technical point of view everything is in place. This means:

- the URL won't change anymore
- the problem with pages having timeouts should be solved
- the rendering of formulas works
- files can be uploaded

What doesn't work is everything that has to do with the Wiki sending mail (sending forgotten passwords). I'll have to drill a hole in our firewall for that.

I'll write the Guidelines for submitting stuff by next week. When this is done I will declare the Wiki as being open to the public. One topic in the Guidlines will be "How To Name My Stuff In Order To Avoid Clashes" (the reason for this becomes clear if we think about a filename "velocity.jpg" or a page name "MySolver").

If you want to, you can create yourself an account with the Wiki (2 people have already done so: A big "Hello" to you)

Those who want to comment on the Wiki, propose changes etc can do so at the discussion pages (each page in the Wiki has one).

If there are any problems please contact me (EMail can be found in the User-Profile on this message board)

Hello! The Guidelines for t
 

Hello!

The Guidelines for the Wiki are written (they may be extended a bit). So I declare the Wiki to be officially opened.

I'll start adding content in the next day and so can anyone who's interested.

The next things I'll work on are:
- adding some content to the FAQ
- insert some example content in every section

Something that I'd be most interested in would be a contribution to http://www.cdlact.unileoben.ac.at/non_cdl/OpenFOAMWiki/index.php/Main_CodingConv entions from the guys who are involved with OpenFOAM. I noticed that the code has a rather consistent style and I was wondering if you have any written document about that?

Comments/Suggestions/Complaints are most welcome.

Thank you for your work Bernha
 

Thank you for your work Bernhard.

I have some problem to log in however. I created my account, but when I try to log in again after the log out, I'm addressed to a blank page.

Regards,
Alberto

> I noticed that the code has
 

> I noticed that the code has a rather consistent style and I was wondering if you have any written document about that?

As far as possible I have implemented and encouraged the use of a consistent style. Some of these style elements go back to the earliest days of FOAM 1989-1990 when I was working with Charlie Hill who was studing GUI development, but most have evolved and been tuned since. I am not entirely happy with all the coding conventions or layout styles that I have settled for but I think consistency is more important than small localised improvments so unless we are prepared to make such changes throught the code we probably shouldn't make them. I have made a couple of coding convention changes consistently throught the code for the 1.2, and these I will document in the release notes. Such changes are very time consuming to make given the current size of this project but I considered these to be important enough to warrant the effort.

So far we have not wirtten documentation for the coding style and conventions but we have released scripts which create templates for new classes and applications which conform, e.g.

foamNew H newClass
foamNew C newClass
foamNew IO newClass
foamNew I newClass
foamNew App newApp

We intend to extend this principle further by writing scripts to create templates for new run-time selectable modules e.g. boundary-conditions, thermophysical models, turbulence models etc. etc. but we haven't had time so far and have decided to make these and documentation of the coding style and conventions part of the programmers guide which we will start writing as soon as we find sponsorship for this work.

@Alberto: Could you try again?
 

@Alberto: Could you try again? The time of your posting matches the time at which the our Webserver got updated (without my knowledge) which broke the Wiki (which had a downtime of 2 hours. Not a good start)

@Henry: May I cite your answer on the relevant page?

Sure, you can transfer anythin
 

Sure, you can transfer anything from the discussion forum to the Wiki as you consider appropriate.

I tried just now. The system t
 

I tried just now. The system tells me the password is wrong. I tried to obtain a new one, but I don't receive the e-mail.

Regards,
Alberto

@Alberto: I logged in just now
 

@Alberto: I logged in just now without any problems.

There was some delay in receiving my passwd though.

Mattijs

The EMail-feature is still sub
 

The EMail-feature is still subject to change (we're moving to a more secure mailer), but should be finalized today. I'll post it here.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

No problem. Thank you Bernhard
 

No problem. Thank you Bernhard.

Alberto

Everything's working fine now.
 

Everything's working fine now. Ty again.

Alberto

Mail works now. So the Wiki is
 

Mail works now. So the Wiki is fully operational and I can concentrate on content (and everyone else can start adding).

If you have any problems with the Wiki please contact me by EMail (we don't want to polute the message board with that)

Hello! Is the wiki down? I
 

Hello!

Is the wiki down? I get a "Refused connection" answer from my browser.

Alberto

Sorry we had a thunderstorm la
 

Sorry we had a thunderstorm last saturday as a result the webserver was rebooted twice. The second time he decided it wasn't worth the effort and decided to switch off (and stayed so because nobody was in the office).

It's running now.

My major activity with the Wik
 

My major activity with the Wiki in the last two months was to remove spam that was added by SpamBots. As a result I installed an extension that analyzes the behaviour of clients accessing the Wiki and blocking bots. It seems to be successful (no spam was added since then).

The only problem is that it is possible in rare cases that this extension mistakes a regular user with a SpamBot and blocks him (sad but true: it happened to me because my RSS-Reader seems to be badly programmed).

So if anyone gets locked out of the Wiki by mistake, please contact me and I'll try to find a solution.

Hello! At The Workshop in Z
 

Hello!

At The Workshop in Zagreb two suggestions were made which are now implemented:

- Pages for Special Interest Groups (SIG). The starting page for that can be found at
http://www.cdlact.unileoben.ac.at/non_cdl/OpenFOAMWiki/index.php/Main_Special_In terest_Groups
I have already added pointers to the groups for which interest was articulated during the Workshop. If you think a SIG is missing and you want to contribute, feel free to add it. For the structure of the SIG-pages I have no idea and will rely on the creativity of the people in these SIGs.

- Tagging information for OpenFOAM releases: It was suggested to me that the information on the Wiki should carry an indication for which versions of OpenFOAM they are relevant (for instance some of the utilities I posted don't compile with 1.1 and this isn't notified on their pages; shame on me) Now I've introduced a category for every version of OpenFOAM. To tag the page for version 1.1 add the Templates {{VersionInfo}}{{Version1.1}} to the start of the page. This adds a Version Icon to the page and adds the page to the correct category.

PS: I mentioned in this thread the Spam-Bot-Filter working on the Wiki and the possibility that legitimate users might be locked out. I now got a report by one user that this happened to him. If it happens to you please contact me and I'll try to find a solution. (Removing the filter is not an option because I don't want to spend the whole day removing links to porn-sites from the wiki)

Just an idea ... yes sometimes
 

Just an idea ... yes sometimes I have some ...

Is there a simple and automatic way to create a pdf file of the Wiki site every n days ? If this file is available for download, we will be able to print it for reading without printing each page of the Wiki site...

Perhaps this could made a good paper reference/documentation for newbies like me !

Francois

The server known to the world
 

The server known to the world as http://www.cdlact.unileoben.ac.at will cease to exist some time in the next 6 months. To ease the transition of the Wiki we have aquired the domain http://openfoamwiki.net which is now pointing to the same Wiki as http://www.cdlact.unileoben.ac.at/non_cdl/OpenFoamWiki/

Advantage ist that the URLs become a lot shorter (http://www.cdlact.unileoben.ac.at/no...x.php/Main_FAQ becomes http://openfoamwiki.net/index.php/Main_FAQ).
Disadvantage is that I'll have to ask everyone with Bookmarks and Links to the Wiki to change them accordingly (Don't know what to do about the references on the MessageBoard)

Until the old address disappears both addresses will point to the same database (so changes made under the old name won't be lost)

I changed all the message boar
 

I changed all the message board Wiki refs to point to the new address (by hand so there might be some mistakes - please let me know)

@Mattijs: Thanks. I'll try whe
 

@Mattijs: Thanks. I'll try whether I find problems. (But I think I won'T)

@all the others: One of the problemes is that leting two domains point to the same Wiki leads to some strange results (something related to the problems of caches on SMP-machines. Similar, but not the same). I hope I fixed that problem for the new address (but I'm afraid not totally for the old address, it was not intended, but it should speed up the transition ;) )

(to make a long story short: some people using the openfoamwiki-address will experience URLs that have parts saying /non_cdl/OpenFOAMWiki which are surplus to requirements but give the correct results. For the old address things are more complicated (and not as easily fixable) )

Sorry. I should have tested that stuff more before making it public

I was trying to reach the wiki
 

I was trying to reach the wiki-site (http://openfoamwiki.net) , but I could not get access. Is the site out of the air? Or is it at another location?

Guido

I'm looking into the problem.
 

I'm looking into the problem. It seems like the university is playing around with the firewall and is blocking our webserver (I can reach the Wiki from inside the university net but not from outside)

Oke thanks Bernhard! I'll try
 

Oke thanks Bernhard! I'll try later.

Should be working again. T
 

Should be working again.

Thanks for your feedback. I would have lived in blissful ignorance about the state of the Wiki without it.

Indeed it is working again, th
 

Indeed it is working again, thx for the fix!

Hi! Seems there is a problem
 

Hi!
Seems there is a problem on one of the main page of the Wiki :

http://www.cdlact.unileoben.ac.at/non_cdl/OpenFOAMWiki/index.php/Main_Page#The_a pplications

On my browser, most of the links on this page produce an error message , like that one for example :
"Not Found
The requested URL /index.php/Main_OFSolvers was not found on this server."
(when requesting http://www.cdlact.unileoben.ac.at/in...Main_OFSolvers )

Does any other user notice a similar error?

Otherwise I would like to express all my thanks to the webmaster and the authors for this very useful website!
Regards,
Jonathan

Are you accessing it through:
 

Are you accessing it through:

http://openfoamwiki.net/index.php/Main_Page

?

Hi Jonathan! Mattijs is rig
 

Hi Jonathan!

Mattijs is right, you should access the Wiki through the openfoamwiki.net-URL (the other one happens to be the machine the Wiki lives on, a fact which might change). What you are seeing is that the Wiki-engine tries to rewrite parts of the URL - for the openfoamwiki.net-address, which won't work for the cdlact-address.

BTW: I have been told that the university had a 2 hour internet-downtime today. I apologize if the Wiki wasn't reachable in that time (I wasn't in the office so I don't know for sure whether that was the case)

Hi! Ok I did not know for the
 

Hi!
Ok I did not know for the correct url, by default I was always using the one provided on the openCFD website! (cf. http://www.opencfd.co.uk/openfoam/di...tml#discussion ) Maybe will this page be updated soon!

Anyway, I have an other error with the openfoamwiki.net adress, the issue is different. When I'm requesting the page indicated by Mattijs I get a timeout message from my browser. This is quite funny as the ping of this domain, even if long (1 second!), is successful (cf. below).

Could be just a matter of time/network... ;-) or could be something else! ;-)
I will try from home tonight, maybee will that be more successful!
Cheers,
Jonathan
ps : -for information- even after having change the default seting for the timeout on my browser (to 1.5second) I keep having this problem.


S:\>ping www.openfoamwiki.net

Pinging www.openfoamwiki.net [213.229.60.9] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 213.229.60.9: bytes=32 time=1029ms TTL=50
Reply from 213.229.60.9: bytes=32 time=1103ms TTL=50
Reply from 213.229.60.9: bytes=32 time=1157ms TTL=50
Reply from 213.229.60.9: bytes=32 time=1157ms TTL=50

Ping statistics for 213.229.60.9:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 1029ms, Maximum = 1157ms, Average = 1111ms

Hi, Today everything is fine
 

Hi,
Today everything is fine regarding the access to openfoamwiki URL! This was a network issue then!
Thank you very much all!
Jonathan

Hi, This morning I try to f
 

Hi,

This morning I try to find a way to convert my LaTeX files to the MediaWiki syntax found on openfoamwiki.

Perhaps such a tool will help TeX users to post some useful info on the Wiki ...

So far I have found:

http://wikisophia.org/wiki/Wikitex
http://qwiki.caltech.edu/wiki/Converting_LaTex_To_Wiki

Any way, hope this will be usefull ...

Hi! Bad news. The machine t
 

Hi!

Bad news. The machine that hosted the Wiki decided that this world is no longer worth living in.

There exist backups (and the hard-disk still seems to work) and I'm setting up a different machine with them, so I'm hoping to have it back online by the end of the week. For obvious reasons the Wiki will not be available till then.

I apologize for any inconvenience caused.

Bernhard

Hi! The Wiki is back online
 

Hi!

The Wiki is back online .... kind of.

The server moved to a new location, but half of the nameservers (amongst them mine) still refer to the old location. So please be patient.

The Server died on the 19th at approx 9am (MEZ), the last backup was at the 17th approx 4am. Any edits done between these dates will be lost. Sorry.

Also the Wiki got moved to a new version of the Wiki-software. The only downside to this move is that characters with "exotic" encodings (German Unlauts for instance) got garbled. I guess we have to live with that.

Should you experience any other problems (and I suspect here still might be some), please contact me.

Bernhard

PS: As the server is quite new I might have to do some modifications. Expect unanounced downtime (but not longer than a few minutes)

After sitting on these changes for some time I finally changed the front page of the Wiki.

The redesign was done by Jason Hoogland who felt that the old design of the front page was not very user friendly as finding stuff involved a lot of scrolling and he felt it would be nice if there were links to the forum, the doxygen etc right on the first page.

The new design was presented at the Workshop in Montreal and the feedback there was quite positive (and minor changes suggested)

There are further changes planned that would make it easier to update the New and other sections without editing the front-page itself but the plugin that should do this is broken and I currently haven't got the time to fix it.

Feedback is appreciated (either here or on the discussion-page)

Thanks again to Jason Hoogland for the re-design and Henrik Rusche and all the others who suggested or contributed adjustments

Bernhard

Hello Bernhard,

A Good Morning to you :-)!

I was looking through the "new and improved" OpenFOAM Wiki, and I must say.... it does look cool :-)! Nice work and thanks to everyone who was involved in the rework effort....!

The wiki has grown by a decent proportion in the last few years.... nice to see a multitude of "How-to"s... tips... contributions, etc...! I was wondering if it would be possible to have a link to the Wiki at some prominent... easily visible location on the OpenFOAM CFD-Online forum.... something like a Sticky-post in large red (or maybe blue is a little less aggressive !!) bold font :-) !?

One question though.... what did you people use to create the front page of the wiki? Was it purely hand-crafted by some mediawiki "super-dude" ? Or are there some tools that normal people can use to come up with such a slick interface?

Anyway... all in all.... nice work... :-)!

Have a great day!

Philippose

Again: cheers to Jason

I didn't find such sticky-posts in the forums of the other CFD-software, so I'm not sure what the policy is on such things. And this could also lead to discussions "Why is this Website advertized and this one is not"

There is no magic involved in that layout . More impressive: hard work

To have a look at how it is done just click on the "View Source"-Tab on the top and you will see it was done

Bernhard

Hi!

Due to a hardware problem the machine that hosts openfoamwiki.net is currently down. We're working on it, but I can't promise anything before next week

Bernhard

The Wiki is back!
 

The Wiki is running again. Excuse tad longer downtime. I blame national holiday on Tuesday, burned out motherboard and power supply that had to be ordered and finally my apprentice administration skills.

For record: Bernhard promised me Toblerone as a reward.
Note: Clarify with Bernhard "We're working on it, but I can't promise anything before next week". Does it make the second Toblerone negotiable?

[QUOTE=pvita;239688]The Wiki is running again. Excuse tad longer downtime. I blame national holiday on Tuesday, burned out motherboard and power supply that had to be ordered and finally my apprentice administration skills.
/QUOTE]
Thanks again.

One more remark: AFAICT (As Far As I Can Tell) no edits were lost. I apologize again for the downtime.

Bernhard

It would have been, yes. But because you're discussing sensitive internal topics (distribution of chocolate) externally I deduct it. So only one.

Hi Berhard,

I have noticed that the link to the 'NETL wiki' on the OpenFOAMWiki site is currently not being found. (This is in section 3.2 Tutorials)

Do you know whether this is a temporary situation on the NETL site or has the content been moved?

Cheers,

Paul.