Posted in Wikis on Aug 11th, 2006 1 Comment »
I’ve been following a discussion on Web4Lib concerning wikis and access control and was struck by the following post by one of the list members:
I am repeatedly impressed by how often, when librarians consider wikis, their first thought seems to be of access control. The idea of “just anybody being able to edit our [...]
Posted in Wikis on Jun 5th, 2006 1 Comment »
Today was another Mediawiki day. I’ve been working on giving wiki owners permissions to update the sidebar, and add users to their wikis. It isn’t really a problem to give owners this kind of permissions. Basically I added the following lines:
$wgGroupPermissions['owner']['block'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['owner']['createaccount'] [...]
Posted in Wikis on May 25th, 2006 2 Comments »
A while ago I wrote about adding a WYSIWYG editor to Mediawiki and lamented that at the time one problem with the FCKEditor implemention of the WYWISYG was that you had to modify the base Mediwiki code. A royal pain when you have to upgrade. However, the creator of that hack has created a full [...]
Posted in Wikis on May 17th, 2006 2 Comments »
Today I got the Mediawiki-based wiki farm I’ve been testing move to our production open source webserver. Overall it was a fairly simple process but I wanted to share a few things that I learned from the experience.
First, being able to do this type of thing quickly and easily relies on being able to create [...]
Posted in Wikis on May 8th, 2006 10 Comments »
I spent the better part of the end of last week working on extending Mediawiki for our institution. One thing that was really important to me was being able to add users to Mediawiki from our Active Directory user and assign them to specific group. Normally, the way Mediawiki works I would have to wait [...]
Posted in Wikis on May 1st, 2006 9 Comments »
One of the things that I wanted to get set up in our wiki test-bed was a WYSIWYG editor for wiki pages. You might find yourself asking “why would you want to have a WYSWIYG editor in a wiki when there is wiki-markup”? The reason I wanted to install a WYSIWYG editor is that although [...]
Posted in Wikis on Apr 20th, 2006 6 Comments »
So I’ve been working on and off for a week and a half trying to figure out how to run a large scale wiki farm for the UH Libraries where all the Wiki’s would have the same basic template. The problems are similar to what I encountered when I worked on the UH Libraries weblogs [...]
