Difference between revisions of "The Wiki"

VisualWikitext

Revision as of 01:12, 30 November 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.

Lucene Search

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

Hosted at https://wiki.pumpingstationone.org
The wiki lives on wiki.ad.pumpingstationone.org under /srv/http/wiki.pumpingstationone.org/.
Nightly dumps are publicly available: PS1 Wiki Dumps
Upgrading Mediawiki

Allowed File types

log in to wiki.ad.pumpingstationone.org and edit /srv/http/wiki.pumpingstationone.org/LocalSettings.php

Find the $wgFileExtensions variable and make whatever changes you see fit.

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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.
-=== Sphinx Search ===
+=== Lucene Search ===
-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.
+The default search in mediawiki does exact matching, but doesn't to lexicographical searches. We have [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Lucene-search Lucene Search] installed, along with indexing daemons that run hourly on the mediawiki server.
 === Visual Editor ===