I've started cleaning up the
User Written Scripts wikia page a bit. As a first step, I moved it out from under the uBASIC Scripting page into the main wiki as it's just as much about Lua scripts as uBASIC.
But when I started looking at what was actually linked there, I realized it was likely to frustrate new users as most of the links were to old scripts they would not be able to use. And many of the best recent scripts were not linked there at all.
So one change I would like to proceed with is to separate what I will call
universal scripts (ones that will run on any CHDK camera) from
camera specific scripts (hard coded key presses / propset values etc). A simple way to do this would be to reorder each scripting section into two subsections labelled
Universal &
Camera Specific. A more contentious way would be to move older non-generic scripts to a sub-page.
Maybe one example script showing how to setup Canon functions with key presses in its own section would suffice ?
I've also started copying what I consider good scripts from the forum to their own wiki pages (with a link back to the forum). Not sure if this is better than just linking to the forum directly but it feels more permanent. With all due respect to acseven and the great job he has done providing this service for free for all these years, things have occasionally disappeared.
All of which tends to make me the default self declared editor of wiki script links at the moment - a position I'm not entirely comfortable with. But I guess, using whatever advice I'm given here, I will proceed carefully until somebody says "stop".
For example. do we really need links to 22 intervalometer scripts - about half of which seem to want to claim the title of being the most "accurate"?
