Thanks to everyone who's been helping.
As I get closer to my goal, I have some more complex questions regarding templates, protected pages, transclusions, pre-loading, etc.
It would be really useful to have a "test wiki" I could point people to to show them what I've done so far, and why it doesn't work.
Ideally, this would be one where any registered user could protect/unprotect pages (of course, giving any user the power to protect/unprotect pages makes protection meaningless, but this would be more to experiment with protected pages, not actually protect them).
Is there such a "test wiki" out there?
I realize I could create test pages and even templates on ANY wiki (even mediawiki.org or wikipedia.org), but it would be wrong to
You could set up such a test wiki pretty easily: Just set it up on a separate webspace from your main one (testwiki.lspace.org, or whatever), and add: $wgGroupPermissions['user']['protect'] = true; To LocalSettings.php. Then users could protect and unprotect pages when logged in, and log out to see how they would be without the protection permission.
On 1/30/07, Kelly Jones kelly.terry.jones@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks to everyone who's been helping.
As I get closer to my goal, I have some more complex questions regarding templates, protected pages, transclusions, pre-loading, etc.
It would be really useful to have a "test wiki" I could point people to to show them what I've done so far, and why it doesn't work.
Ideally, this would be one where any registered user could protect/unprotect pages (of course, giving any user the power to protect/unprotect pages makes protection meaningless, but this would be more to experiment with protected pages, not actually protect them).
Is there such a "test wiki" out there?
I realize I could create test pages and even templates on ANY wiki (even mediawiki.org or wikipedia.org), but it would be wrong to
-- We're just a Bunch Of Regular Guys, a collective group that's trying to understand and assimilate technology. We feel that resistance to new ideas and technology is unwise and ultimately futile.
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Thanks, Emufarmers. I don't own wiki.lspace.org, I'm just a user. I don't really own any wikis or server space. I tried setting up a MediaWiki on awardspace.com (free webspace like geocities/tripod/etc), but it's so slow + works so poorly that I can't really use it for testing.
Thanks also to Ittay for answering my earlier "Annotating a protected document on a per-user, per-section basis" question. Since I don't own wiki.lspace.org, I can't install my own extensions. The wiki owner might install any "standard" extension on request, but probably won't install anything experimental.
Perhaps we could set one up on Wikia?
On 1/31/07, Kelly Jones kelly.terry.jones@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks, Emufarmers. I don't own wiki.lspace.org, I'm just a user. I don't really own any wikis or server space. I tried setting up a MediaWiki on awardspace.com (free webspace like geocities/tripod/etc), but it's so slow + works so poorly that I can't really use it for testing.
Thanks also to Ittay for answering my earlier "Annotating a protected document on a per-user, per-section basis" question. Since I don't own wiki.lspace.org, I can't install my own extensions. The wiki owner might install any "standard" extension on request, but probably won't install anything experimental.
-- We're just a Bunch Of Regular Guys, a collective group that's trying to understand and assimilate technology. We feel that resistance to new ideas and technology is unwise and ultimately futile.
On 1/30/07, Emufarmers Sangly emufarmers@gmail.com wrote:
You could set up such a test wiki pretty easily: Just set it up on a separate webspace from your main one (testwiki.lspace.org, or whatever),
and
add: $wgGroupPermissions['user']['protect'] = true; To LocalSettings.php. Then users could protect and unprotect pages when logged in, and log out to see how they would be without the protection permission.
On 1/30/07, Kelly Jones kelly.terry.jones@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks to everyone who's been helping.
As I get closer to my goal, I have some more complex questions regarding templates, protected pages, transclusions, pre-loading, etc.
It would be really useful to have a "test wiki" I could point people to to show them what I've done so far, and why it doesn't work.
Ideally, this would be one where any registered user could protect/unprotect pages (of course, giving any user the power to protect/unprotect pages makes protection meaningless, but this would be more to experiment with protected pages, not actually protect them).
Is there such a "test wiki" out there?
I realize I could create test pages and even templates on ANY wiki (even mediawiki.org or wikipedia.org), but it would be wrong to
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Perhaps this would sort of work: http://scratchpad.wikia.com/wiki/Testingwiki
I just created it. Templates are shared between all 'mini-wikis' though, and you dont have access to the configuration files or anything.
On 1/31/07, Schuyler Thompson thekid7590@gmail.com wrote:
Perhaps we could set one up on Wikia?
On 1/31/07, Kelly Jones kelly.terry.jones@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks, Emufarmers. I don't own wiki.lspace.org, I'm just a user. I don't really own any wikis or server space. I tried setting up a MediaWiki on awardspace.com (free webspace like geocities/tripod/etc), but it's so slow + works so poorly that I can't really use it for testing.
Thanks also to Ittay for answering my earlier "Annotating a protected document on a per-user, per-section basis" question. Since I don't own wiki.lspace.org , I can't install my own extensions. The wiki owner might install any "standard" extension on request, but probably won't install anything experimental.
-- We're just a Bunch Of Regular Guys, a collective group that's trying to understand and assimilate technology. We feel that resistance to new ideas and technology is unwise and ultimately futile.
On 1/30/07, Emufarmers Sangly <emufarmers@gmail.com > wrote:
You could set up such a test wiki pretty easily: Just set it up on a separate webspace from your main one (testwiki.lspace.org, or
whatever), and
add: $wgGroupPermissions['user']['protect'] = true; To LocalSettings.php. Then users could protect and unprotect pages
when
logged in, and log out to see how they would be without the protection
permission.
On 1/30/07, Kelly Jones kelly.terry.jones@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks to everyone who's been helping.
As I get closer to my goal, I have some more complex questions regarding templates, protected pages, transclusions, pre-loading,
etc.
It would be really useful to have a "test wiki" I could point people
to to show them what I've done so far, and why it doesn't work.
Ideally, this would be one where any registered user could protect/unprotect pages (of course, giving any user the power to protect/unprotect pages makes protection meaningless, but this would be more to experiment with protected pages, not actually protect them).
Is there such a "test wiki" out there?
I realize I could create test pages and even templates on ANY wiki (even mediawiki.org or wikipedia.org), but it would be wrong to
MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
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later, Schuyler
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I can set up a domain or subdomain on my own hosting so you can do whatever you'd like..
(except SSH access, unless I get a public key)
Let me know if you want to go that route..
But experimenting might be just as easy with something like xampp on your personal computer.
On 1/31/07, Sy Ali sy1234@gmail.com wrote:
I can set up a domain or subdomain on my own hosting so you can do whatever you'd like..
Oh crap, I just realized that that hosting is stuck on php4 still. =/
Please don't use Wikia's Scratchpad for test wikis. It for real projects which are too small to have their own wiki, not for making a mess. :)
I suggest http://test.wikipedia.org/ instead.
Angela
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