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2006-02-05

Currently seeding a new Oddwiki here [1] for our french internet fiesta (next march). Happy and excited to discover we can test easily the famous green CSS. Still don't know if it's the good way to drop that here{{Is there any Feedback page ?}} …

Let's say for the moment, I could be interested to know more about some features to make small groups test wikis. First impressions very positive and questions :

Is this possible ? May be it requires the admin passw. Thanks in advance.

ChristopheDucamp

MattisManzel: Agree, the green rocks, I just copied over the css page on Mattis-Manzel-wiki and - surprisingly, as it is like often on computers - it works. Else I have no answer for any of your interesting questions, xtof.

I felt tempted to try changing colors but there is a

 /* Copyright (C) 2004  Murray Altheim
    Copyright (C) 2004  Alex Schroeder
 
    Public Domain
 */

on the top. Would it be legaly justified to make changes on the css?

Answers by Alex

We collect feedback on the Forum page. Nobody has yet asked so many questions. :)

NearLinks for other wikis. Look at the Community:InterMap and Community:NearMap, and you'll see that the list of pages is retrieved via a different script. This script translates Latin-1 encoded titles on Crai to UTF-8 encoded titles on Community and UTF-8 encoded links on Community to Latin-1 encoded URLs on Crao.

The admin password for the Oddwiki farm is secret. It is the same for all farms, and rarely needed. My idea was that people would migrate their wikis to their own servers if they really need admin rights.

Denoting authors is a module I could install; if I do, it will be installed for all wikis – I'm not sure this is the right thing to do. The module makes a wiki quite a bit more complex because of all the weird rules and defaults and setup required.

The same is true for the customization of the goto-bar. Currently OddWiki is monolingual: English only. I'm not sure how I would add multilingual wikis without adding complexity and more work for simple tasks. Perhaps the best idea would be to just hide the goto-bar using CSS and rely on the sidebar alone? This won't work for all the edit/history/etc links at the bottom, however.

The same is true for indexed search and tagging: Those modules are not installed because I wanted this farm to be simple. If anybody needs these features, they should migrate their pages to a separate site.

The same is true for the front page aggregation and footnotes. These are module that are not installed.

As for changing the CSS files: They are in the public domain. The copyright message is bogus, since it contradicts the public domain dedication. I will remove it.

I really think we need to consider carefully what kind of features we would like to see on OddWiki. The more Oddmuse-specific features we add, the harder it will be to migrate the pages to a wiki that doesn't run Oddmuse. More moduels also means that migration targets will have to setup all these modules if they want all the features to work after migration. If people don't know much about wikis, all these modules also mean a steeper learning curve.

I'm not sure what to do. – Alex.