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<big>'''Welcome to the Cumulus Wiki'''</big>, this community Wiki is for sharing knowledge of the [[About Cumulus|Cumulus]] Weather Station software. [[CumulusWiki:About|This Wiki]] was originated to document the (original) Cumulus (1) software Steve Loft developed. ''The vast majority of the original content used Steve's own words, and he was a key contributor.
Other contributors reviewed what Steve said in answers in the support forum, and collated that material into pages in this Wiki, so Steve's knowledge could be shared more systematically. When Steve Loft developed other flavours, the content here also covered those. This Wiki retains content for the legacy original Cumulus software that people still use, some of that legacy content has been locked against further editing. Steve Loft deleted the material on Cumulus 2 when he abandoned that development, but his [[Cumulus 3 (MX) beta documentation|MX 3.0.0 beta]] documentation remains. This copy of the original Cumulus Wiki was cloned on 26-Oct-2018, just before Steve Loft ended his association with Cumulus, and all user credentials from the deleted original Wiki hosted by ''sandaysoft.com'' should be valid here.
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'''You do not need a userid to READ any of the content on this Wiki.''' ▼
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▲This Wiki retains content for the legacy original Cumulus software that people still use, although they are encouraged to [[Migrating from Cumulus 1 to MX|Migrate from Cumulus 1]] to the vastly different Cumulus MX developed by Mark Crossley (from Steve's original). Please see the bottom of this page for how you can contribute to this Wiki.
▲<big>'''''You do not need a userid to READ any of the content on this Wiki.''''' </big>
Brian Underdown (weather34) has allowed us to host his [[HomeWeatherStationTemplate|Home Weather Station template for Cumulus]] on the Wiki.▼
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If you are new to Wiki's we suggest you spend a few minutes reading basic articles about this Wiki. Familiarise yourself with:
*How to [[Help:Contents#Reading|read]]
*How to [[Help:Contents#Searching|search]]
'''''When requesting a Wiki account, please quote the user name you use on the Cumulus support forum, or provide other evidence of you being a genuine Cumulus user
Do be aware there are many spammers attempting to gain access, and any request that does not comply with above instruction makes it impossible for the admins to identify genuine account requests from spammers.'''''
(Please note, the support forum and this Wiki are hosted by different people, on different web hosts, so do use a different password!)
▲Brian Underdown (weather34) has allowed us to host his [[HomeWeatherStationTemplate|Home Weather Station template for Cumulus]] on the Wiki.
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If you have any questions please raise them on either the [https://cumulus.hosiene.co.uk/viewforum.php?f=38 Cumulus forum] or [https://www.wxforum.net/index.php?board=105.0 Cumulus board at WXForum.net].
* <big>The MX of today, thanks to Mark Crossley leading development (with small contributions from others), is totally different from that early MX beta; do you use/understand any of the new functionality (not documented for legacy software) meaning you can document it for those new to that functionality?</big>
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▲'''''When requesting a Wiki account, please quote the user name you use on the Cumulus support forum, or provide other evidence of you being a genuine Cumulus user, it makes it easier for the admins to identify genuine account requests from spammers.''''' (Please note, the support forum and this Wiki are hosted by different people, on different web hosts, so do use a different password!)
▲*If you plan on '''CONTRIBUTING''' to the Wiki, then you will need a userid.
▲**The quickest way to get a new account is to put a request via the support forum (see pink background text there)
▲**Otherwise use the [[Special:RequestAccount|Request Account]] form to apply for a userid (you may have to wait some time for an administrator to have spare time to wade through loads of spam requests to find any real Cumulus users)
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