Hi, I'm going to be away from an internet connection for a few weeks at a time over the next few weeks but would like to be able to carry a snapshot of my Wiki to reference so I can work on some materials while I'm on the road. I've been looking around via Google and I'm finding a number of projects that look promising but everyone I've looked at so far seems to fall into the vaporware category. Does anyone know of a workable solution? Something that runs in either Linux or XP would be good. Or maybe there's something out there that'll let me take an export of a bunch of page from my wiki and produce a pdf or something?
Anything that'll let me carry and comfortably view a bunch of articles from the wiki would be helpful.
Hi,
On 28/03/2009, P. Hightower sgriobhadair@gmail.com wrote:
Hi, I'm going to be away from an internet connection for a few weeks at a time over the next few weeks but would like to be able to carry a snapshot of my Wiki to reference so I can work on some materials while I'm on the road. I've been looking around via Google and I'm finding a number of projects that look promising but everyone I've looked at so far seems to fall into the vaporware category. Does anyone know of a workable solution? Something that runs in either Linux or XP would be good. Or maybe there's something out there that'll let me take an export of a bunch of page from my wiki and produce a pdf or something?
Take a look at MoWeS from CH software (www.chsoftware.net). They offer a free standalone MediaWiIki (i have 1.13), MySQL, PHP and Apache installation that can be run without install (off an USB stick or from the hard drive). You can use the supplied Mediawiki or install your perferred Mediawiki version and copy the entire wiki onto it (provided enough disk space is available of course).
Naturally, you are left on your own to copy any modifications you made back to the original Wiki.
What is the easiest why to let all users register, to get a username and password, and then they will be able to change or edit articles on a wiki.
Currently all articles are 'open' and anyone, without logging in, can change these articles. But the risk involved in that is getting bigger everyday.
Should we change all articles protection to 'block new and unregistered users'?
Thanks.
Regards, Sarel www.agriwiki.co.za
Hi Sarel,
2009/4/9 Sarel Wesssels (Agri Wiki) swessels@agriwiki.co.za:
What is the easiest why to let all users register, to get a username and password, and then they will be able to change or edit articles on a wiki.
Currently all articles are 'open' and anyone, without logging in, can change these articles. But the risk involved in that is getting bigger everyday.
Should we change all articles protection to 'block new and unregistered users'?
No. Please read:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Preventing_access
That should get you on track.
P. Hightower wrote:
Hi, I'm going to be away from an internet connection for a few weeks at a time over the next few weeks but would like to be able to carry a snapshot of my Wiki to reference so I can work on some materials while I'm on the road. I've been looking around via Google and I'm finding a number of projects that look promising but everyone I've looked at so far seems to fall into the vaporware category. Does anyone know of a workable solution? Something that runs in either Linux or XP would be good. Or maybe there's something out there that'll let me take an export of a bunch of page from my wiki and produce a pdf or something?
Anything that'll let me carry and comfortably view a bunch of articles from the wiki would be helpful.
I'd use DumpHTML - http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:DumpHTML
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 9:48 AM, Platonides Platonides@gmail.com wrote:
I'd use DumpHTML - http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:DumpHTML
Hmm...That looks like it'll work very well. Thanks. Still I wonder if there's any thing yet to dump a wiki to PDF maybe organized by categories or something.
With the collection extension you can collect arbitrary wikipedia articles and export them to a PDF.
The extension is live in the following language versions: German, French, Polish, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish. On the english wikipedia the feature is currently in its testing phase - which means that it is only available to logged in users.
A collection can be created by clicking the "Add wiki page" link in the navigation bar in the "create a book" box.
Complete categories can be added in the same way if a category page is displayed.
P. Hightower wrote:
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 9:48 AM, Platonides Platonides@gmail.com wrote:
I'd use DumpHTML - http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:DumpHTML
Hmm...That looks like it'll work very well. Thanks. Still I wonder if there's any thing yet to dump a wiki to PDF maybe organized by categories or something. _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
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