Just a thought, is there any chance the devwiki could be migrated to mediawiki at some point (I'd be willing to help) I dislike tiki-wiki... and mediawiki is so nice :)
Tom On 6/18/06, Youness Alaoui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > As it was discussed in here : > http://amsn.sourceforge.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1177 > A new WIKI for the users has been created. This means that we need to > update all our links, the website link to the wiki, the redirect in > faq.php, etc... > What I did for now is move the current wiki (that we'll still use) to > devwiki and have the new one in userwiki... > now let me explain it better : > the tikiwiki that we currently use will be kept for developers only, where > only the developers can edit pages, its new URL will be > http://amsn.sf.net/devwiki > the mediawiki that I've just set up (same wiki as wikipedia) will be used > and maintained by our users. It will mainly contain explanations on how to > do stuff, which means that we'll have an article for almost anything we > can think of, so no more "search the forums", it will be a "search the > wiki" which our super-power users (Elias, NoWhereMan, and soon Gus-Arg and > Fenix-TX) will be able to answer.. Elias and NWM are ready to rewrite most > of the things already answered, and we'll be able to have a real, huge FAQ > where everyone can help, article-based, where our users will feel > confortable! :) > Now, that new wiki has been placed in http://amsn.sf.net/userwiki > as you can see from > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Eliminating_index.php_from_the_url we can > have a shorter name for the wiki, which means instead of having > http://amsn.sf.net/wiki/index.php?title=Tcl > we could have > http://amsn.sf.net/wiki/Tcl > for this, we need two dirs, one for the actual wiki, the other for the > rewrite rule, which is why the wiki has been placed in htdocs/userwiki so > the rewrite rule will rewrite /wiki into /userwiki > Now, I didn't want to screw up our current system, so the htdocs/.htaccess > file contains a rewrite rule for : > http://amsn.sf.net/userwiki_short > so, once everything has been set up, we'll just modify the .htaccess and > put it into wiki/ remove the symlink from wiki/ to devwiki/ and we'll need > to modify the wiki's article path so it doesn't get rewritten into > userwiki/index.php?title= > > Now, if you'll notice, we have 3 new symlinks, the > htdocs/wiki/ -> htdocs/devwiki > htdocs/userwiki/ ->/tmp/persistent/amsn/mediawiki-1.6.7 > wiki_sessions/ -> /tmp/persistent/amsn/mediawiki-1.6.7/sessions > > the wiki_sessions symlinks are normal, I made them so we can actually log > on and log out of the wiki (maybe that's why we can't log into tikiwki > without the remember me option... the web server can't write the session > files!!!!) > but the other odd thing you'll find is that I made the whole mediawiki > installation into /tmp/persistent instead of puttin it into > /home/groups/a/am/amsn/htdocs and that's not because of a read/write > permission issue, it's only because it allowed us to save 11MB of space > from our 100MB limit on /home/groups/a/am/amsn :p > so, in case you're lost, you know that the file's you're looking for are > in /tmp/persistent/amsn/mediawiki-1.6.7 > I made sure everyone has write permissions... > btw, I kept the -1.6.7 in the dirname so we can easily know which version > is installed and whether we need to upgrade... I also subscribed to the > mediwiki release mailing list, so we should be fine... > > As you can see, as soon as you go into that new wiki.. we need a new > logo!!!! so if Tom or Lee can make us a real nice logo that would blend in > with the wiki (I tried to crop the logos we have on the website but the > blue background makes it not blend at all), that would be terrific. > > Tell me when you've done the changes. > > Thanks! > -- > KaKaRoTo > > > _______________________________________________ > Amsn-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amsn-devel > _______________________________________________ Amsn-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amsn-devel
