P2P Foundation Wiki Installation Maintenance and Upgrade

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Help Users, Help Category Leaders

Make a pretty wiki that works for everyone!

See what we have installed now and how to use it here at Special:Version.

Contents 1 Mediawiki core 2 Proposed Extension upgrades 2.1 Users and Registration 2.2 Categorization and Organization 2.3 Usability 3 Maintenance areas 3.1 Layout, user-friendliness 3.2 Changes to the navigation menu

Mediawiki core

• Our Mediawiki version can be seen here: Special:Version
• With an upgrade we get new skins, better db functionality, and some user level improvements.
• Instructions for upgrade and current version download: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Upgrade

Proposed Extension upgrades

To see currently installed extensions visit Special:Version

Users and Registration

• ConfirmAccount
  • http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmAccount
  • Allow users to create accounts on the site, again, and let Admins approve the accounts.
  • Decrease confusion of requirement to send an email to Michel or admins?
  • Choose a user group for empowering? Special:ListGroupRights

• Email Account Verification before editing
  • This is included with the core of mediawiki from version 1.6+

• Anti-Spoof usernames/registration controls
  • http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AntiSpoof

Categorization and Organization

• Category Tree
  • http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CategoryTree
  • Fact: There's a way to display this category tree if we add an extension. We can embed it where we like so show it off. Very cool.
  • Fact: With a visualization extension 'tagging' articles to multiple levels in a tree will be possible and less and less interesting.
  • Fact: With the ability to visually traverse categories we'll be able to see what edits we need to make a lot easier.

• Semantic Wiki
  • http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Introduction_to_Semantic_MediaWiki
  • Let's us add semantic tags that allow automatic list generation

• Network Analyzer
  • See visual relationships between articles, categories, and authors.
  • http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Network_Analyzer

• Collections
  • http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Collection
  • Allow users to collect pages together. Very useful for sets of documents that support each other. Our only alternative is to use categories, with altogether too many subcategories.
  • Collections can be printed together, exported as pdf, or printed as a book at http://pediapress.com/
  • Extensive install and use docs [1]

Usability

• AutoLink
  • http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AutoLink#version_which_matches_all_pages_giving_preference_to_longer_matches

It is possible to never use double []'s for internal pages, and just allow any page title to automatically 'link' whenever it happens to appear in written text. --Ownut 22:07, 27 January 2008 (PST)

Pretty cool. I'd be happy to install it if more people agree :) --Guaka 01:50, 27 July 2008 (PDT)

I support that idea --- FranzN 07:15, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

I think this may be dangerous, and create many false positives for common words, perhaps we can first see an example of a wiki where this is applied?--Mbauwens 14:50, 19 April 2009 (UTC)

This sounds neat - is it possible to add it here, and if it is not liked - turning it off - or does it make changes that would need to be reverted? MarkDilley

• Wikieditor
  • http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:UsabilityInitiative#WikiEditor
  • The editor use on wikipedia. Extra buttons, can be used to remove formatting.

Maintenance areas

• i18n, g10n
  • Developing and maintaining language-specific pages, which introduce the topic, and alert readers to resources in their language
  • Developing country-specific pages: what's happening around P2P, participaton, the 'open' paradigm and the commons in your country?
  • Just start by creating wikilinks for all countries that are mentioned, e.g. France, Netherlands, United States
  • Translators: I would really love to have the basic CTheory essay (in English), or Revue du Mauss essay, both good summaries, translated into many different languages

• Encyclopedia, Wikipedia*
  • Formalising the existing encyclopedia entries, in a way that is compatible with the Wikipedia format.
  • Guaka will do some work on this.
  • See how our own encyclopedia and Wikipedia can enrich each other.
  • Problem: Wikipedia's license (GFDL) is totally not compatible with this wiki's license (CC-BY-NC-SA).
  • Match every encyclopedia article with a 1) Wikipedia article; 2) associated books; 3) recommended blogs and websites
  • Work on the internal referrals, i.e. matching the encyclopedia articles with the who's who, the podcasts and webcasts, other topics, etc...

• Re Categorize mass amounts of content at the database level
  • http://www.mediacollege.com/computer/database/mysql/find-replace.html

  • update [table_name] set [field_name] = replace([field_name],'[string_to_find]','[string_to_replace]');

Layout, user-friendliness

1. Working to make the lay-out of the Wiki much more user-friendly
2. help with making this standard MediaWiki look different, nicer. (tweaking colors, etc.)
   • Check MediaWiki:Monobook.css and MediaWiki Talk:Monobook.css

Changes to the navigation menu

1. figure out if MediaWiki can put Recent Changes on the side of the front page.