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Welcome to Darren's new wiki!

My main purpose for creating this page is to learn about OddMuse. I’m considering installing a wiki on my personal home page. OddMuse is one of my candidates for wiki engine. Before I go through the trouble to install it and configure it, I figure I can mess around here a lot easier. I think this use of OddWiki is in line with their stated purpose.

It sure is. :)Main:AlexSchroeder

Okay, here’s what I want to do. I want to set up my wiki similar to a blog. I want diary-like pages (I think they call them “day pages” around here). I want to aggregate them on the front page, the most recent n articles. I want to be able to title and/or categorize the day pages, so I can see all the day pages related to a certain topic. I also want to be able to have pages that are not necessarily tied to a particular day. I’ll probably link to them from a day page, but the article would stand independent of day pages. I think the wiki engine has an advantage over a blog engine in this regard.

I want to be able to protect my writing from modification by others. From what I’ve read, that will be impossible on OddWiki. However, my wiki here is really just a practice session for installing my own. I haven’t decided whether I want a talk-back or comment capability. I’m not really expecting a large readership outside of family. I don’t want to spend large amounts of time defending against spam and repairing damage from vandals. If this wiki effort of my follows the familiar path of my other hobbies, it will likely fall into neglect within a year or two. I don’t want to return after an extended absence to find that my entire wiki has become a series of Viagra advertisements.

I would really like to use the same markup language as that used by Wikipedia. We use the same engine at work for ad hoc documentation and I’ve grown used to it. The markup language of OddMuse is a little different. Perhaps there is a module I can plug in. I also miss the “gadget bar” that Wikipedia provides on their edit window. Perhaps there is a module for that, too.

2008-08-11

Another day, another dollar (or so).

My local lan admins block access to blog sites, but so far this one hasn’t been blocked. Not that that really matters, since I’ve only been visiting this site once every few months, anyway.

2008-02-26

I haven’t had much time to mess with this lately. I’m afraid this may be like my many other hobbies where I start out enthusiastic, but as time goes on I gradually lose interest. I hope not.

I’m trying to wrap my head around Mattis’ comment on my last post, back in December. My interpretation (and if Mattis wanders back here, maybe he can correct me) is that the page I’m editing right now (2008-02-26) is an “unspecified” date page, as in, it has not been assigned a category or subject. Whereas if I named the page 2008-02-26-Talk or 2008-02-26-Ramblings, then this page would have a category or subject (“Talk” or “Ramblings”), and so could also be searched by those terms, and not only by the date. It seems to me, though, if it were a pure diary entry, then I may not have a particular subject, and so a date may be all I want to name it.

I need to spend some more time reading some of the tutorials and help pages, I suppose. This may all be explained somewhere. For all I know, I may have read all about it and then forgot in the interval. That’s the problem with doing something “hit or miss.” By the time I get back to do something, I’ve forgotten how.

Darren

MattisManzel?:
Well, Darren, you describe a problem I know as well - loosing interest, I mean. Just do as you feel and find out later what you persist on. ;)

It’s not about category or subject. “Specifying” a day-page-set by adding _WhatSoEver? simply gives you the possibility to create a page that includes all day-pages with that particular specification, the youngest day-page on top. The line

 <journal 30 "^\d\d\d\d-\d\d-\d\d_WhatSoEver">

does it. Only _WhatSoEver? day-pages get included into it. When using the unspecified

 <journal 30 "^\d\d\d\d-\d\d-\d\d">

all day-pages get included, unspecified or how ever specified ones.

The rss-feed for a specified day-page-set adds new entries on top.

 http://www.communitywiki.org/odd/DarrensWiki?action=rss&full=1&days=90&match=%5E%5Cd%5Cd%5Cd%5Cd-%5Cd%5Cd-%5Cd%5Cd.*WhatSoEver

I hope this helps. Cu.

2007-12-20

Only five more shopping days until Christmas!

Do I have my shopping done? I don’t know, I’ll have to ask my wife!

MattisManzel?:
Hi Darren. Welcome to odd-wiki. Nice to see you interested in Oddmuse and also in day-page-sets. If you want to create several day-page-sets, like talk, “who helps here?”, wiki-idea (for example) you must not use the unspecified type of day-pages (which is for example this page) ending only on the date - here 2007-12-20. You have to use specified day-pages - such end on 2007-12-20_Talk for example or 2007-12-20_WhoHelpsHere? or what ever you name the set. Using the unspecified day-page-set means that all specified day-pages show up in it - to me that didn’t make much sense ‘til now. Greets to your wife and have a nice xmas.

2007-09-30

This is my seventh wedding anniversary.

It’s easy to remember which anniversary, since we got married in 2000. Just take the last two digits of the current year, and voila! you know the anniversary. No math involved.

2007-09-17

Really, I’m just playing with the calendar module for the SideBar.


Today is September 17, 2007.

A day that will not live in infamy.