User:Fabartus/temp1

=TOL Wiki project DLS fixups=

This is a demo project to show how the Trainzer user community can help one another using the Project namespace of the TrainzOnline wiki. I have an unusual perspective on the whole Auran/N3V community having more time editing wiki's (since I discovered both Trainz and Wikipedia back in 2004) than I do fixing Trainz Errors under the new data model, and whilst I find N3V Games a company worthy of sympathies, there are things that we the user community can do to assist one another more easily than they with their numerically challenged and overworked staff can possibly do to help us as easily.

We all know how poorly the N3V staff communicates, this wiki project is spurred by the short-sighted establishment of the DLS clean-up project and the failure of N3V to do more than make a feeble attempt to have some kind of wiki... and because it was feeble, I figure they and we in the community must be nearly as dissatisfied with the results as the other. In the last couple of weeks, I've taken to begin fixing the wiki so all of us can be as comfortable as the typical 11 year-old with making contributory edits.

Part of what I'm proposing here is an expansion of the (challenged) base DLS cleanup paradigm to incorporate a discussion of community standards&mdash;using this wiki and it's projects pages to have community consensus in how different fields in our content should be fixed up going forward. The programmers and we users have different focus. When making a route, we need different information, they merely consider whether an asset is a problem in their data model and rendering software needs. When it is, they change the model, usually with their typically poor prior announcements in advance of the new changes. Hence the establishment of this wiki to have a dynamic place where they can 'publish' (albeit with insufficient consultation or notice to the user community) changes they need to evolve the Trainz simulators.

Welcome to our DLS fixups!
Did you know you can keep up with unheralded data model changes using this wiki? It's fairly easy. When we are looking at a page you or I can add it to our wiki 'Watch list' using the tab 'Watch tab' and further, can set up our Preferences to send us an email when a page has been changed. When and if, the Programmers change the model&mdash;when they make the change without discussing the fact with the user community first, or update the model without commenting out the older tag name with an annotation as to the last valid "Trainz-build" tag tech level it was valid for, it gives us two things as users: In the near future, all the Official reference pages in the TrainzOnline wiki will be tagged with ORP-top and ORP-bot tags, enabling one to access all programmer maintained pages from a single category: Reference pages. When that process is complete, we'll be initiating a text page listing all the pages to watch as a text asset. Any one of us can then cut and paste that document into their own watch page editor's applet, and voila', instant watch list monitoring of all changes to the geek-speak of our programmers references. In the meantime, I invite the many to join those of us in Yesterdayz Trainz to 'dumb down' the Official reference pages. Documenting when a tag becomes invalid by commenting the line with a REM statement is and should be the standard practice in all versions of Trainz, yet according to that inexperienced Trainzer Jcitron, that most needed tag has mysteriously disappeared from the TrainzBaseSpec as did the prior ability to have "//..." end of line comments, and the defacto ability of using ';' (semi-colon) on a line to delimit a comment as was once possible back from Trainz 1.x and through in the many versions TRS2004-TRS2006. NOT PROCESSING these as comments any more is out and out creation of bugs, and putting them onto the user communities backs.
 * A way of being alerted the change is in the works or part of the (hopefully) forthcoming release; not something the geeks are back documenting.
 * A valid reason to gripe about the N3V staff communication to us all. Point being we're the one's likely to get burned, and their track record for auto-fixing assets with set up to auto-update the DLS is dismal, putting it kindly as possible.

The ability to comment in a text file is absolutely necessary when all the file names are 'config.txt', one standard we will propose here is a standard block of comments up in the first lines of the config.txt files &mdash; among other possible fields, are the several just above the English language description documenting the the file kuid, region, era, and especially the username fields... the very folder name the asset should be opened for edit when viewed. An important datum when a user is fixing multiple download issues and might have ten or more Windows Explorer windows open at once. The programmers have little appreciation for that condition we all see when downloading older routes and sessions.

Attempting to build a searchable list
source page1

KUID 	Name 	Description 	Repairer  	DR_US_2H0F2A_045 	DR-Bahn€ng 2-gleisig mit 5,0 m Abstand f€ amerikanische Strassensystem.I 	Claim for repair  	DR_US_2H0F2A_135 	DR-Bahn€ng 2-gleisig mit 5,0 m Abstand f€ amerikanische Strassensystem.I 	Claim for repair  	DR_SW_2H0F4A_090 	DR-Bahn€ng 2-gleisig mit 4,0 m Abstand f€ schwedische Strassensystem.I 	Claim for repair  	DR_SW_2H0F4A_045 	DR-Bahn€ng 2-gleisig mit 4,0 m Abstand f€ schwedische Strassensystem.I 	Claim for repair  	DR_SW_2H0F4A_135 	DR-Bahn€ng 2-gleisig mit 4,0 m Abstand f€ schwedische Strassensystem.I 	Claim for repair  	DR_SW_2H0F2A_090 	DR-Bahn€ng 2-gleisig mit 4,0 m Abstand f€ schwedische Strassensystem.I 	Claim for repair  	DR_SW_2H0F2A_045 	DR-Bahn€ng 2-gleisig mit 4,0 m Abstand f€ schwedische Strassensystem.I 	Claim for repair  	DR_SW_2H0F2A_135 	DR-Bahn€ng 2-gleisig mit 4,0 m Abstand f€ schwedische Strassensystem.I 	Claim for repair  	DR_US_2H0F4A_090 	DR-Bahn€ng 2-gleisig mit 4,0 m Abstand f€ amerikanische Strassensystem.I 	Claim for repair  	DR_US_2H0F4A_045 	DR-Bahn€ng 2-gleisig mit 4,0 m Abstand f€ amerikanische Strassensystem.I 	Claim for repair  	DR_US_2H0F4A_135 	DR-Bahn€ng 2-gleisig mit 4,0 m Abstand f€ amerikanische Strassensystem.I 	Claim for repair  	DR_US_2H0F2A_090 	DR-Bahn€ng 2-gleisig mit 4,0 m Abstand f€ amerikanische Strassensystem.I 	Claim for repair  	DR_US_2H0F2A_045 	DR-Bahn€ng 2-gleisig mit 4,0 m Abstand f€ amerikanische Strassensystem.I 	Claim for repair  	DR_US_2H0F2A_135 	DR-Bahn€ng 2-gleisig mit 4,0 m Abstand f€ amerikanische Strassensystem.I 	Claim for repair  	DR_SW_2H2F4A_090 	DR-Bahn€ng 1-gleisig f€ schwedische Strassensystem.onplatI 	Claim for repair  	DR_SW_2H2F4A_090 	DR-Bahn€ng 2-gleisig mit 4,0 m Abstand f€ schwedische Strassensystem.I 	Claim for repair <KUID:104001:60583> 	DR_SW_2H2F4A_090 	DR-Bahn€ng 2-gleisig mit 5,0 m Abstand f€ schwedische Strassensystem.I 	Claim for repair <KUID:104001:60584> 	DR_SW_2H2F4A_090 	DR-Bahn€ng 3-gleisig Typ A (3 Gleise nebeneinander) mit 4,0 m Abstand f€ schwedische Strassensyst... Claim for repair <KUID:104001:60585> 	DR_SW_2H2F4A_090 	DR-Bahn€ng 3-gleisig Typ A (3 Gleise nebeneinander) mit 5,0 m Abstand f€ schwedische Strassensyst... Claim for repair <KUID:104001:60586> 	DR_SW_2H2F4A_090 	DR-Bahn€ng 3-gleisig Typ B (2 Gleise nebeneinander, 1 Gleis frei, 1 Gleis) mit 4,0 m Abstand f€ s... Claim for repair <KUID2:104722:1042:5> 	Ortner 3-bay Auto MFX-2 Hopper v3 AG3 	One of the most distinctive cars in service today, the Ortner 100-Ton Aggregate Cars are built fo... Claim for repair

Pages 1-6 <kuid:-1> and (-1)
Pages searched by 'unclaimed' and <kuid:-1>

Kuid's mixing begins

 * Interesting, search is now picking up '-1' in non-kuid fields

Pages 1-6 <kuid:-2>
This search new, using <kuid:-2> and so some items are redundant. e.g. the first item below should be listed above as well.

Pages 1-2 <kuid:-3>
All pages with <kuid:-3> and '-3' in names

Pages 1-4 <kuid:-4>
Searches finding <kuid:-4> and '-4' 

Group-23 <kuid:-7> and (-7)

 * Pages 1-3 combined

 NOTE on formats:  At this juncture, having verified the above groups can be put into a table format, revising presentation into longer combined table instead of accepting the short list pages of the https://www.auran.com/planetauran/dls_cleanup_list.php.

Searches finding <kuid:-7> and '-7' in names:

group-24 (-8's)
&npsp;

Missing on DLS
The second list below is an add to list... assets called for when something has been downloaded that includes the asset on the route or session as a dependency, but which has not been uploaded to the DLS by the asset creator. The first list is an index to those sites which provide Trainz content, and usually, host downloading services of their own. Several listings therein however make it policy to place their content on the DLS for free access by all.

Content source sites
This section will give new Trainzers a www-web-wide Kuid indexed searchable source page to quickly find where an asset might be located, should they have that hated missing dependency' after downloading a asset such as a session or route. Asset creators and users should feel to update the page reflecting a newly discovered missing asset and delete those which are no longer 'missing' on the DLS.
 * Assets missing on the DLS