I'll bet that Je77 is writing answers right now, but I'll race him :-)
>Hi,
>
>I have a couple questions regarding Swiki use.
>
>1) I have large documents I want to stick on my swiki, it's a royal
> pain to do &star, >, <, etc for special case words. Is there a
> way around this? Like at the beginning of text say <sometag> and
> at the end </sometag> and it doesn't look for special characters in
> that space?
Put <html> </html>, and then all formatting is treated as raw HTML.
>
>2) I'm using Swiki for my personal site and I'm a bit worried about
> some malicious surfer coming along and screwing it up. However, I
> don't want to click "lock" on every new page I create and I'd
> rather not be inserting passwords all the time. Is there a way to
> lock all my pages so that only if someone goes to
> http://server/swikiname/admin and then logs in then they can
> add/change pages but no one else can?
Using the admin tool, you can prevent people from writing/editing
your pages unless they have a username/password. (Je77's new
AniAniWeb tool that he's building for EXACTLY this purpose -- Swikis
for personal sites -- has much more elaborated and easier security
mechanisms.)
>
> b) I do like the idea of people being able to add stuff to the site
> though, so, say some malicious person does come along and they
> delete all the pages, how long would it take me to fix? Is there
> an unlimited number of "roll-backs" so even if they changed it say
> 50 times I'd still not lose the content from presentversion - 50?
I don't know if ComSwiki has rollback tools. PWS Swiki had tools
that Ted wrote for rolling back everything to a given date and time.
My guess is that it wouldn't be hard to write such a tool.
>3) Is there a document about making new themes?
Not that I know of, but I do know that Je77 is working on admin
documentation this Summer which will include how to use the new Swiki
Browser that makes it easier to edit templates.
>4) When I upload an image to a site is there a way to make the default
> option "don't put a reference on the bottom of the page"?
Don't know.
>5) What's the proper method for deleting uploaded images or pages?
Not possible from within Swiki. If you delete them from the OS and
restart the server, that should do it.
>6) I wonder, can I run a nebraska server on the same server that runs
> the swiki, even if the squeak is running in -headless mode?
I think so -- Lex?
>
>--
>the sky is tired of being blue
Deep thought -- now, what color might it want to be? :-)
Mark
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