I have been working with internal wikis for a while. We have several wikis that we edit within our company then give the wiki to the client. The client just searches the information and does not do any further edits.
We now have a wiki that we want to make external so I need to make sure I am addressing everything.
As far as user groups, I have it set that everyone can read the wiki and all login users can edit within the wiki. Only administrators can create a new user account. We have provided an email address for people to request authoring privileges. The server we are using for the wiki does not have a mail server. I am assuming that we would need a mail server on the server to have the wiki email passwords to the person. Is that true or can we set it to use another mail server?
Thanks,
Mary Beebe Battelle Charlottesville, VA 434-951-2149 This message is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed, and may contain information that is privileged, confidential and/or otherwise exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient or the employee or agent responsible for delivering the message to the intended recipient, any disclosure, dissemination, distribution, copying or other use of this communication or its substance is prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please return to the sender and delete from your computer system.
You can configure MediaWiki to use an external SMTP server, I wrote up a set of instructions on this a while back: http://snowulf.com/2011/08/30/configuring-mediawiki-to-use-external-smtp/
You can also take a look at the manual for $wgSMTP at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgSMTP
The other option is that when you create accounts, do not do it "By Email". Simply enter a random password (twice) and click create. Then you can email the person on your standard mail client their username & password.
-Jon
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 09:00, Beebe, Mary J BeebeM@battelle.org wrote:
I have been working with internal wikis for a while. We have several wikis that we edit within our company then give the wiki to the client. The client just searches the information and does not do any further edits.
We now have a wiki that we want to make external so I need to make sure I am addressing everything.
As far as user groups, I have it set that everyone can read the wiki and all login users can edit within the wiki. Only administrators can create a new user account. We have provided an email address for people to request authoring privileges. The server we are using for the wiki does not have a mail server. I am assuming that we would need a mail server on the server to have the wiki email passwords to the person. Is that true or can we set it to use another mail server?
Thanks,
Mary Beebe Battelle Charlottesville, VA 434-951-2149 This message is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed, and may contain information that is privileged, confidential and/or otherwise exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient or the employee or agent responsible for delivering the message to the intended recipient, any disclosure, dissemination, distribution, copying or other use of this communication or its substance is prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please return to the sender and delete from your computer system.
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On 10.02.2012 18:04, Jon Davis wrote:
You can configure MediaWiki to use an external SMTP server, I wrote up a set of instructions on this a while back: http://snowulf.com/2011/08/30/configuring-mediawiki-to-use-external-smtp/
You can also take a look at the manual for $wgSMTP at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgSMTP
That should work. The only drawback is that it's rather slow.
The other option is that when you create accounts, do not do it "By Email". Simply enter a random password (twice) and click create. Then you can email the person on your standard mail client their username & password.
I would recommend against that. Email notifications are rather important, and being able to reset one's password via email is also nice.
just my 2ยข
-- daniel
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