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== What is the wiki ==
    The wiki lives on wiki.ad.pumpingstationone.org under /srv/http/wiki.pumpingstationone.org/.
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    Nightly dumps are publicly available: PS1 Wiki Dumps
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A wiki a collaborative editing environment that all PS:One member's have access to.
    [[Upgrading Mediawiki]]
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We use it for
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*  Votes/Vote proposals
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*  Meeting Agendas/ Meeting Notes
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*  Recording Policies
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*  Hosting the Bylaws
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*  Note Taking
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*  Systems Documentation
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== Wiki Usage Guides ==
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* [[How_to_write_a_vote]]
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* [[Wiki_Editing]]
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== Extra Features ==
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=== WikiBot ==
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The [[user:wikibot]] makes [[Special:Contributions/Wikibot edits]] the wiki automatically, making simple cleanups and doing link verification.  It's running based of the Pywikibot software.
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=== Sphinx Search ===
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The default search in mediawiki does exact matching, but doesn't to lexicographical searches.  We have [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SphinxSearch Sphinx Search]  installed, along with indexing daemons that run hourly and nightly on the mediawiki server.
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=== Visual Editor ===
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The [[http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor Visual Editor]] Is a feature Media Wiki has been working on for a while, but still isn't perfect.  Most notably it breaks pretty hard on Equipment Pages.
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We run a [[http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid parsoid daemon]] in order to process mediawiki content into a form the Visual Editor can work with.
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== Technical ==
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The wiki is running MediaWiki's wiki software, the same as WikiPedia, along with some 3rd party extensions.
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* Hosted at https://wiki.pumpingstationone.org
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* The wiki lives on wiki.ad.pumpingstationone.org under <code>/srv/http/wiki.pumpingstationone.org/</code>.
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* Nightly dumps are publicly available: [https://wiki.pumpingstationone.org/dumps/ PS1 Wiki Dumps]
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* [[Upgrading Mediawiki]]

Revision as of 06:38, 2 August 2014

What is the wiki

A wiki a collaborative editing environment that all PS:One member's have access to.

We use it for

  • Votes/Vote proposals
  • Meeting Agendas/ Meeting Notes
  • Recording Policies
  • Hosting the Bylaws
  • Note Taking
  • Systems Documentation

Wiki Usage Guides

Extra Features

= WikiBot

The user:wikibot makes Special:Contributions/Wikibot edits the wiki automatically, making simple cleanups and doing link verification. It's running based of the Pywikibot software.

Sphinx Search

The default search in mediawiki does exact matching, but doesn't to lexicographical searches. We have Sphinx Search installed, along with indexing daemons that run hourly and nightly on the mediawiki server.

Visual Editor

The [Visual Editor] Is a feature Media Wiki has been working on for a while, but still isn't perfect. Most notably it breaks pretty hard on Equipment Pages.

We run a [parsoid daemon] in order to process mediawiki content into a form the Visual Editor can work with.

Technical

The wiki is running MediaWiki's wiki software, the same as WikiPedia, along with some 3rd party extensions.