Sorry John, but when I was trying to find out how to register on bitchin100, the create-account page didn't work, and there was no way to even find out who to contact to even ask for an account. Total utter dead end. (Barring something like consulting whois to see if you can find out who owns the domain)
I know it's obviously running mediawiki, but that is just software, not functionality. If all you can do is look at it, then it's a web site, regardless what it's running on. If you actually intend the wiki to be community edited then I suggest a couple things: * Visible contact info for the wiki admin. * Create-account page that isn't entirely disabled. At the very least, it should present the instruction you wish people to follow, such as email you, including your email. * Ideally, if it doesn't utterly swamp you, better than mere directions, mediawiki has an option where users register themselves, but each account must still be activated by you. So mediawiki sends you the email itself and you just OK it. * If that does swamp you, then add a few more admins to recieve those emails and any admin can accept or reject them. I don't think I would rely on captcha either. If you can do that, I would immediately work on bitchin100 instead of my own for the 100-related stuff. I just got tired of putting stuff in google drive and google photos, or getting whined at if I posted to facebook. I want a wiki that actually provides collaboration and living documentation. But I won't demand it of anyone else. If no one else is providing it, and I want it, then I'll make it. I'm quite sure I'd get clucked at if I had instead complained that someone else's thing they were providing for free didn't do what I wanted. They'd tell me to put up my own site! -- bkw On Mar 5, 2017 9:35 PM, "John R. Hogerhuis" <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 5, 2017 at 6:04 PM Brian White <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Over time I'll be fleshing that out and improving it. >> >> In fact, I just registered tandy.wiki and trs-80.wiki and set up a >> digital ocean droplet to host mediawiki. >> >> Club100 is derelict, and bitchin100 is basically just a web site rather >> than a wiki. It's implemented in mediawiki software, but you can't add to >> it or edit it, so it's not a wiki and not really a living document. So I >> plan to set up an actual wiki. Still requiring an account to edit, to curb >> spam, but with self-registration so anyone actually can. >> > > > Bitchin100 is not just a web site. It's literally a wiki apparently the > same software you're planning to set up. > > It was constantly coming under spam attack and captcha's weren't > sufficient so I create accounts manually. I'm not the only one who has > edited articles. > > But you know... do what you want, just please don't spread mistaken > assumptions about other's projects. > > > -- John. >
