On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 12:38:39AM +0100, Igor Gilitschenski wrote: It is news to me that it is not popular. Code doesn't exist because it is currently in the design stage. The permission scheme in particular, needs to be hammered out. I am trying to make it flexible enough to allow many different security policies, and to allow Wikipedias current security policy without any noticeable overhead. Maybe the following URL will help; also, recent discussion in the archives of this mailing list have a lot of detail that hasn't yet been incorporated in the design document. Please feel free to post with your suggestions and ideas, to this list, and in the design document itself. http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Clutch/mod_wiki Brion, what did you think of the idea of not making language be a directory component, but an integral part of the title? http://foo.com/wiki/en:SaddleMaking As opposed to http://foo.com/wiki/en/SaddleMaking Then we can just have a table of "prefixes", and map them to namespaces, or external wiki's, or whatever. Jonathan -- Geek House Productions, Ltd. Providing Unix & Internet Contracting and Consulting, QA Testing, Technical Documentation, Systems Design & Implementation, General Programming, E-commerce, Web & Mail Services since 1998 Phone: 604-435-1205 Email: djw(a)reactor-core.org Webpage: http://reactor-core.org Address: 2459 E 41st Ave, Vancouver, BC V5R2W2

On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 01:10:28AM +0100, Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote: Instead of implying that the apache module was unpopular, it might have been better to have just said it wasn't in existence yet. Apache runs on every platform one is likely to want to run a Wikipedia on; I don't see being bound to Apache as an issue. If you do have an issue with that, I'd appreciate you spelling it out in detail so I can address it. As for "radical" ideas, I haven't put a single original idea in the design. It is all traditional, orthodox Unix and standard engineering practice. Maybe those things were radical 30 years ago. Today those things are considered tried and true by most people. Which items in particular did you consider "radical"? Jonathan -- Geek House Productions, Ltd. Providing Unix & Internet Contracting and Consulting, QA Testing, Technical Documentation, Systems Design & Implementation, General Programming, E-commerce, Web & Mail Services since 1998 Phone: 604-435-1205 Email: djw(a)reactor-core.org Webpage: http://reactor-core.org Address: 2459 E 41st Ave, Vancouver, BC V5R2W2