Hi, It's great that the new wiki is up and running, nice to see all that activity (I'm having a laziness crisis at the moment, hope it won't last long :)) But how about 0.96 RC1 ? It's tagged for 2 days, needs to be packaged I guess, so where is everyone?
Shall I start by uploading somewhere all I can do (tarball + Slackware package) ? On Sun, 18 Jun 2006, Youness Alaoui 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 > Amsn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amsn-devel > --- "Where is the life that we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom that we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge that we have lost in information?" OEO; _______________________________________________ Amsn-devel mailing list Amsn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amsn-devel
