Hi all
I have written a small script that pulls the content of the toolserver home page http://toolserver.org/ from our wiki. It's not live yet, but you can test it at http://toolserver.org/newindex.php. The page's content is maintained on https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Toolserver:Homepage which can be edited by admins. I hope this will make it easier to maintain the home page's content.
I think the same system can be applied to other pages we might want to maintain in the wiki but present independantly.
Any comments and ideas are welcome, of course.
-- daniel
Very nice :-)
-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: toolserver-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:toolserver-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] Im Auftrag von Daniel Kinzler Gesendet: Freitag, 12. Juni 2009 12:36 An: toolserver-l@lists.wikimedia.org Betreff: [Toolserver-l] new toolserver home page
Hi all
I have written a small script that pulls the content of the toolserver home page http://toolserver.org/ from our wiki. It's not live yet, but you can test it at http://toolserver.org/newindex.php. The page's content is maintained on https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Toolserver:Homepage which can be edited by admins. I hope this will make it easier to maintain the home page's content.
I think the same system can be applied to other pages we might want to maintain in the wiki but present independantly.
Any comments and ideas are welcome, of course.
-- daniel
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Daniel Kinzler wrote:
Hi all
I have written a small script that pulls the content of the toolserver home page http://toolserver.org/ from our wiki. It's not live yet, but you can test it at http://toolserver.org/newindex.php. The page's content is maintained on https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Toolserver:Homepage which can be edited by admins. I hope this will make it easier to maintain the home page's content.
I think the same system can be applied to other pages we might want to maintain in the wiki but present independantly.
Any comments and ideas are welcome, of course.
-- daniel
Why use a script? It could be a view on the wiki , directly taking the content from the wiki. Ie. the page could be rewritten as https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Toolserver:Homepage?useskin=toolserverplain...
Note I see potential for defacing the main page as it is.
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Platonides:
Why use a script?
why create a whole new skin when we can just use a script?
- river.
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Platonides:
You make it sound hard, when creating a good script to scrap the wiki, filter the page and present it will in fact be harder.
sounds pretty trivial to me. plus it's already been done...
- river.
River Tarnell wrote:
Platonides:
You make it sound hard, when creating a good script to scrap the wiki, filter the page and present it will in fact be harder.
sounds pretty trivial to me. plus it's already been done...
- river.
And it doesn't preclude pulling information from other sources and displaying it as well.
Platonides schrieb:
Why use a script? It could be a view on the wiki , directly taking the content from the wiki. Ie. the page could be rewritten as https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Toolserver:Homepage?useskin=toolserverplain...
Note I see potential for defacing the main page as it is.
Hm.... how?
Writing an extra skin is indeed another possibility. I wrote this also as a proof of concept however - the idea is that it would also work for high traffic pages, without the need to rig the wiki for dealing with high traffic - and the info could be pulled from a private wiki too (though I'd have to write the authentication bit, or do auth by clinet IP).
-- daniel
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