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New Wiki needs editors
Posted: Sun 19 Jul 2009, 09:47
by Lobster
Just got this email from Raffy
Hi Ed,
Good news - I've set up puppylinux.org/wikka (same URL since 4 years
ago
. You are the admin:
You can decide on and insert the categories and then we can fill in
with the relevant pages from pupweb and Drupal wiki.
It looks like upgrading pupweb.org/wikka will take too much time and
trial-and-error (we are many upgrades away), so I made a fresh
install.
Cheers.
Raffy
Good news - I suggest Coolpup is also made an admin
he does a great deal of work on the Drupal wiki site
Initial suggestions
register and familiarise
http://puppylinux.org/wikka/UsingThisWiki
eh -it's a wiki start editing . . .
admin
Posted: Sun 19 Jul 2009, 10:16
by raffy
Lobster is the big fish (super admin) so please make it known here that you want to share admin work. Do I get it right that admins can upload files (the settings say so)?
EDIT after Lobster's post (see below): OK, will wait for Lobster's email of names to be included as admins.
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So much to share, so little time.
- life of a puppy
Posted: Sun 19 Jul 2009, 11:26
by Lobster
Hi raffy,
I have created a wiki name for CoolPup
but I think only you can make him an admin like so:
http://docs.wikkawiki.org/WikkaAdmin
If not how do I make other admins?
OK
Posted: Sun 19 Jul 2009, 11:47
by raffy
OK, so that's the way to do it. CoolPup is now admin and you can send more names in my inbox. Thanks!
Posted: Sun 19 Jul 2009, 14:21
by Lobster
Thanks raffy
Have sent Coolpup a private message
about this
If you want to be an admin contact Raffy
Posted: Tue 21 Jul 2009, 11:03
by Lobster
We got our first spam comment ) - so we need more eyes and updaters
- you can help with updating pages from our Drupal page or the slightly older Wakka Wiki
links are here
New page
http://puppylinux.org/wikka/HomePage
old page
http://pupweb.org/wikka/PuppyLinuxMainPage
blue
Posted: Thu 23 Jul 2009, 00:39
by raffy
The new wikka wiki is a good community site for Puppy Linux, and we expect most contributors to be writing there.
To somehow blend it with the other sites, I've tried changing the colors and logo to hues of blue. Comments are welcome.
Posted: Thu 23 Jul 2009, 04:49
by Lobster
Very nice raffy
any chance you can get rid of these lines at the base taking up space?
Valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional :: Valid CSS :: Powered by WikkaWiki 1.1.6.7
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Posted: Thu 23 Jul 2009, 05:14
by Lobster
Posted: Thu 23 Jul 2009, 12:49
by Lobster
Lobster wrote:Very nice raffy
any chance you can get rid of these lines at the base taking up space?
wait a minute - you seem to have added a line
hope this is temp
am getting:
Valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional :: Valid CSS :: Powered by WikkaWiki 1.1.6.7
/* Hidden by Lobster's request, July 23, 2009 */
Page was generated in 0.0194 seconds
hidden
Posted: Thu 23 Jul 2009, 13:58
by raffy
That must be hidden code.
You're too quick - it shows that you've been up all the time attending to the wiki.
Yes, that code showed up - I wrongly posted it outside the PHP code (it must be posted inside). But it showed for a minute or two only.
Now only one line remains at the bottom. This is the usual HTML check (the editor can check his/her page with that) and the backlink to the WikkaWiki site.
We hope to go online with the new wiki by the end of this month. Thanks for your efforts.
Posted: Fri 24 Jul 2009, 04:09
by Lobster
thanks raffy
the spammer bots are already here
(that is why we need more admins for a wiki)
already deleted spam comments
now notice a lot of gmail accounts have registed as users with what seem like real names, repeated twice.
So if you are a genuine register with a name like BarryBarry
with a gmail address and you have disappeared
- eh that is the reason
this will be the new wiki
Posted: Wed 29 Jul 2009, 11:38
by raffy
For everyone's guidance, we are moving information from Drupal (including the Drupal wiki) to the new
news site and
wikka wiki. The relevant discussion is here:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=44576
News and articles should go to the news site and manuals and documentation should go to the wikka wiki.
Apologies to everyone if this was not made very very clear. We've been having outages because of the "heavy" nature of the Drupal CMS as implemented at the site, so we are moving to light-and-fast version of things.
Prit is putting finishing touches to a "Puppy Dynamic" that will take in screenshots, puplets and comments. This will be useful for many ordinary users.
Most contributors should find the wikka wiki a good place to post technical information.
Posted: Wed 29 Jul 2009, 15:53
by J_Rey
The
new Wikka Wakka Wiki install has been unacceptably slow and often gives a different Query Failed errors depending on the page I'm
trying to load but has (MySQL server has gone away) at the end.
What specifically would/could cause problems
upgrading the
(mostly) original wiki?
pages
Posted: Wed 29 Jul 2009, 18:10
by raffy
Some pages may not be there yet as Lobster is doing the transfer manually.
We're several versions away from the most recent one, and I doubt a really clean upgrade.
Both Drupal and WikkaWiki employ URL rewriting, so that is one possible reason for problems, as Drupal is in the root directory.
Anyway, Lobster has done a lot of page editing, so let's hear from him about his own experience.
EDIT: Something strange is happening at the site right now. Will get back here soon.
Posted: Wed 29 Jul 2009, 20:55
by battleshooter
Hello,
An admin is different from a regular Wiki contributor right? It's like the Wiki equivalent of a forum moderator?
I would like to contribute to the Wiki, but I'm still trying to make sense of it... Call me dense, but I still don't understand everything about it.
Edit:
but I'm still trying to make sense of the Wiki...
Battleshooter
Posted: Wed 29 Jul 2009, 21:48
by darrelljon
May I recommend
Wikibooks.
Posted: Wed 29 Jul 2009, 23:38
by battleshooter
Thanks for the link Darrelljon, but it doesn't quite cover what I meant. I suppose I should have made myself a little more clear, what I don't understand is how a Wiki works, mostly the terminology and arranging of pages.
quick
Posted: Wed 29 Jul 2009, 23:49
by raffy
A wiki is quick to use. Type the name of the page on the URL (preferably CamelCase) and the page is done! Next you edit it using simple, intuitive markup.
Many people can edit a page so the page is always uptodate. But the owner is in control through ACL (access control), so you can set editing to yourself only or to all registered users (not good to let the general public edit it).
Posted: Thu 30 Jul 2009, 00:05
by battleshooter
Ok, I'll have to have ago at it Raffy. You make it sound easy
. Could you register me as battleshooter, please?
Battleshooter