Brian, We are currently running courses with no issue using the "old" implementation
http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/wiki/ (which has proved VERY robust. We often have classes of 50 students all hammering pages with 10 or more embedded Jmols, with no issues). but have also been struggling to implement the new version http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/wiki2/index.php/Mod:jmol I currently have it down to a "silly mistake" somewhere, probably a variable in LocalSettings.php. The correct source code is being generated, including the Jmolinitialize script etc, but it just does not start (if someone CAN spot a mistake in the source for the page above, I would be very grateful!) The current environment is as usual at http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/wiki2/index.php/Special:Version Perhaps its an issue with the combinationin of Jmol and StubManager? Although I love Mediawiki (and its use HAS revolutionalized how we grade student "molecular modelling"), it remains a very fragile environment. Thus a single misbehaving extension and mediawiki has a propensity for displaying NOTHING. I am very keen to extend our course so that the wiki can start to display eg MO surfaces, vibrations, etc, but all this is predicated on being able to update the Jmol. Oh, and I need to get all this working, since I hope to present on this topic at the ACS next spring! One final question. Students are asked to paste a boiler plate 3 lines to include their own molecules. Inevitably, they sometimes truncate this, missing out either the start or the end of the syntax. MediaWiki contrives to accept this without issue, but then complains inevitably that the XML is broken and will refuse to allow the broken page to be edited. One then has to access the history list manually, and revert to a working version. Its messy. But why cannot the php parser validate the XML in the first place, and refused to deposit it into the MySQL if it does not validate? On 29 Nov 2008, at 01:41, Brian Salter-Duke wrote: > The question of having Jmol used on wikipedia has again been raised on > the commons email list. On contributor to the discussion says that the > jmol mediawiki extension now only works with an older version of > mediawiki. Certainly my examples at:- > > http://wiki.jmol.org:81/index.php/User:Bduke > > are not working. I still very much want to get jmol working on > wikipedia > and would like to also get it on wikiversity for some teaching > materials > I have started to add there. However, I have been very much out of > touch > recently. Could someone please update me on what the situation is with > the jmol mediawiki extension and point me to an example of it working, > so I can point the wikipedia technical folks to have a look at the > examples? > > Also, last time I tried to get jmol on wikipedia I was told there were > security issues with the extension. Have these been addressed? > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Jmol-users mailing list Jmol-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users
