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I want to do a Wiki on a G4 iMac 700 MHz, 800 MHz, 1.0 GHz and repair guide on the 17" 800 MHz. I have pictures on the tear down of the 800 MHz. Also, I have a 700 15" and a 1.0 GHz 15" on hand to take pictures of the differences.

I updated the wiki on the 1.25 17" G4 iMac, but it appears to be that I need a Wiki in existence to do the other machines and start a repair guide on the 800 MHz.

I don't know how to create a Wiki page for these machines.

There are no EMC #s or Axxx numbers on these machines so I have no idea of how they would get listed in the "ID your Mac" section. I also noticed that a "family page" can be created, this might help on the G4 iMacs.

Also is something wrong with the Patrol? I set mine at about 10,000 but it shows 100m to patrol and there's another one with a user with a rep of 1 and it requires 99m

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Here's what I get. It's the link I gave.

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So what does the edit page look like for this device (click the link in the upper right).

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That's where where it was, thank you. Next is to try a repair guide but will I need to re-import my photos or do I expand the teardown or link to those somehow. In other words a prerequisite guide?

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The screenshot you gave was the guide view page. Is there a publish checkbox above the save button for you on the edit introduction page ?

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Well there are a few things here, so I will attempt to answer each.

First off, for ID Your Mac, that page is relatively hand built. Some day we would like to make it more automatic, but for now we have to add devices by hand.

As for creating a wiki, There are two main ways.

  • the first is to create a guide (http://ifixit.com/Guide/new) and put in the the device name you want to create. We definitely don't require a wiki page to do a guide on it, because we almost forgot to make a wiki device page for the iPad 2. Then, once you view your created guide, on the right there will be a link to create the wiki device page.
  • You can also just visit the page you want to create. So if you wanted to create the "iMac G12" device page, you could go to http://www.ifixit.com/Browse/iMac_G12 and click the create this page link.

For your patrolling question, I believe we have a hard minimum on device pages right now because we were getting a lot of spam. Could you link me to the specific pages where you can't change it? It could be a bug and/or a special case.

Hope that helps. Sorry this is kind of confusing, we are definitely working on ways to make this process easier.

Update: I missed your comment about family pages. There is currently one at http://www.ifixit.com/Browse/iMac_G4, If there are devices that should be showing up on that that aren't, post some links and I can look into it.

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Thanks Nat. On the Patrol, just go here and you'll see two that can't be dealt with: http://www.ifixit.com/Patrol

I'll email you as I create the G4 pages so you can add them to the family page. Thanks so much for your help.

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ahh. So for http://www.ifixit.com/Patrol/view/4642, you're changing the wiki area, which is what puts that device on the family page. So you don't actually want to change that. Also, wiki area changes require a 100m rep no matter what. Any other changes on that page will follow the rep limit you set.

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Which also leads me to another bug... I denied that change and it says accepted... awkward.

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Well Nat #1 why did you deny it? The part # listed is the 17" 1.25 machine? #2 I got docked 5 points for the denial, but I don't get anything if it's accepted. According to Kyle, with my reputation, I am the expert and no one should be able to deny my change.

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Nat - please take a look at the way I'm doing the 800 MHz. I also have the 700 and 1 GHz to add to the 1.25 that I attempted to label.

http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/iMac-G4-1...

Do I need to do this differently?

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