A Wiki page for every Add-on, including from 3rd party repos!

Also can one post an image via URL and have it pull that in (e.g. a screenshot hosted on googlecode, so that I can change the screenshot and have it pulled in without a manual update, like on the forum)?

Yep, a standard HTML img tag should work.

bossanova808 Wrote:Ok cool - I have done two:

http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=XSqueeze

and

http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Oz_Weather

..it won't let me edit the index page, though, for some reason?

Looks awesome!

Index page?

Cool - screenshots added. By index page I meant this one:

http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Cat...C.org_repo

...but now they are there so either you added them or it's bot driven...

Ok, all good! Much better than the forum thread, hope this picks up traction with the various authors....

Aye, I added them. Categories are kind of weird, because you basically add a page by doing something like this:

[[Category:Add-ons not in the XBMC.org repo]]

which is how a link is formatted, but instead of a link it adds the page to that category. Kind of backwards, and I wish they had used a different syntax to make it clear, but it's been that away for as long as I can remember.

You can actually throw the "[[Category:Add-ons not in the XBMC.org repo]]" part anywhere, but they normally go at the very bottom of the page just for organization's sake.

If you ever want to make a link to a category, rather than add a page to a category, you just add a colon at the start like this

[[:Category:Add-ons not in the XBMC.org repo]]

Did I mention you can embed youtube videos? Use the tag

{{youtube|URLID}}

where URLID is the ID in the youtube url. For example:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcogPuSo-DU

becomes

{{youtube|NcogPuSo-DU}}

You an also make screenshot galleries. See the wiki code (press edit) on http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Add-on:Aeon_Nox for an example on how to do both galleries and youtube tags.

Hey Ned

I made a page - http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Add-on:XZen

...however this add on just moved into the master repo for Frodo. Can you remove this page so the automatic one gets generated?

Cheers!

No need, the bot automatically updates existing pages, http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Add...ldid=57734

Looks like it found the one you made manually just fine :)

Clever!