On sab, 2003-02-15 at 14:20, t.l.c(a)vic.australis.com.au wrote:
Hi,
Welcome!
Ive been running the wikipedia code on my personal
machine for more
than a week now and have spent a lot of time rebranding the code (in
language.php) to ensure that people using this wiki dont think they are
editing the wikipedia.
If you haven't already, you might want to join the developers' list:
http://www.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
We're planning to change most of those "Wikipedia" references to a
generic variable which can be set (or group of variables for languages
which require different grammatical forms).
Rebranding is, for the most part, not a problem but
there are some points
(such as when the code generates a the wikipedia software doesnt
understand
.. page) where people may get confused. I changed the
error message to read the Phase III Wikipedia code doesnt
understand
. but this doesnt seem to be much of an improvement.
I think it's getting time to phase in the official unofficial name
"PediaWiki". :)
However a fair number of these messages in the code can just be changed
to "the wiki".
Also pages such as the Wikipedia:Feature_Requests page
(Cunnan:Feature_Requests on the wiki Im setting up) are needless
duplications of wikipedia pages but I worry that adding a redirect to the
wikipedia page will lead to users editing the wikipedia page without
noticing that they are on a different site.
We should probably set up a skeleton database that includes a link to
the bug tracker on the sourceforge project page and explanation of how
to use it and what it means...
Also does the development of the wikipedia code
consider features that
non-wikipedia sites may require? Im thinking along the lines of such
things as only allowing registered users to perform edits (not that I want to
do such a thing).
We at least try to keep things in mind... A number of things (like TeX
math support) are switchable on a per-installation basis. More could be
added, certainly.
Are there even other sites out there that run the
wikipedia code?
A few, yes. See:
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia%3AProjects_using_Wikipedia_software
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)