Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

battleshooter · Joined: 14 May 2008 Posts: 1006 Location: Australia

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. Confused

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darrelljon · Joined: 08 Apr 2007 Posts: 527

May I recommend Wikibooks.

battleshooter · Joined: 14 May 2008 Posts: 1006 Location: Australia

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.

raffy · Joined: 25 May 2005 Posts: 4636 Location: Manila

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).

battleshooter · Joined: 14 May 2008 Posts: 1006 Location: Australia

Ok, I'll have to have ago at it Raffy. You make it sound easy Smile

. Could you register me as battleshooter, please?

Battleshooter Smile

raffy · Joined: 25 May 2005 Posts: 4636 Location: Manila

Good idea. Smile

You will need an email address for that, please PM or email it to me.

Lobster · Posted: Thu 30 Jul 2009, 00:33 Post subject:

Anyone can register and start editing
Here is FAQS info on editing
http://puppylinux.org/wikka/UsingThisWiki

growler · Posted: Thu 30 Jul 2009, 03:41 Post subject: Spam on wiki

Lobster - you can set an invitation code which make's life a bit more tricky for robot wiki spammers to register - there is also a captcha? on some such name that creates an image of a series of characters required to authenticate a registration as a real person. This is an "action" extension to wakka wiki I believe. I haven't gone to those lengths since the invitation code did it for us at http://www.weberp.org - the invitation code is listed on the login page so it is clear for folks - but rarely get spam now.

You can also set the default ACLs for comments to only allow registered users I think its a $ sign - you have to do this in the wakka.config.php to make it the default

Lobster · Posted: Thu 30 Jul 2009, 04:32 Post subject:

there is a capcha here - maybe Raffy can add it Smile

http://wikkawiki.org/FreeCap

raffy · Joined: 25 May 2005 Posts: 4636 Location: Manila

Live spammers also read captcha and invitation codes. Laughing

Adding users to the wiki is fast, so it's no problem if I handle it.

So far comments are for everyone, but admins can watch out for spam comments.

hillside · Posted: Thu 30 Jul 2009, 20:24 Post subject:

I've been looking through the formatting page, but I can't find how to force a CamelCase entry to NOT be a link. I'm sure there's a way to do this. Sometimes names of applications use CamelCase in their name and you don't want it to link back to itself.

DOH!! I just figured it out. Double quotes are the trick. ""TeXt""

Lobster · Posted: Fri 31 Jul 2009, 01:05 Post subject:

Hillside have added instructs here:
http://puppylinux.org/wikka/UsingThisWiki

also check here in future Smile

http://demo.wikkawiki.org/FormattingRules

droope · Joined: 31 Jul 2008 Posts: 814 Location: Uruguay, Mercedes

Hi, is this updated?

Cheers!

J_Rey · Posted: Sat 01 Aug 2009, 09:16 Post subject: New wiki problems

OK. I guess I was not clear enough before but the new Wikka Wakka Wiki install has been unreasonably slow and often gives different Query Failed errors with "MySQL server has gone away" at the end. For example when the page won't load it gives me an error like this:

Lobster · Posted: Sat 01 Aug 2009, 09:32 Post subject: