[GRLUG] Tonight's meeting
Benjamin Flanders
flanderb at gmail.com
Fri Feb 22 10:40:41 EST 2008
I am not a wiki god, but for some reason I was able to create an
account and I am able to edit the wiki. With that in mind I have
added a page for the meeting from last night. Please add to it because
the links I put on it are just from memory.
http://wiki.grlug.org/index.php?title=2008-02-21#Topics_Covered
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 11:18 PM, Michael Mol <mikemol at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 11:04 PM, George (Skip) VerDuin
> <verduin at ameritech.net> wrote:
> > You run a good meeting -- quick [but not fast] paced, on topic,
> > participative, informative. Thanks for the opportunity to attend.
>
> Wish I could have made it. Stuck home with the flu.
>
>
> >
> > <Followup>
> > If you are looking for a wiki admin for the group, I am OK standing up
> > for a little while. I'm not OK taking it away from someone who wants
> > sole control, and if you select me, my desire is to structure the task
> > in a way that there are several admins after a year and I can step out
> > gracefully without the wiki missing a beat.
>
> I'd be happy to admin (or help admin) the wiki. I've run Rosetta Code
> (http://rosettacode.org) for a year now, so I've got some experience.
>
>
> >
> > I did pull the wiki up tonight and try to login -- without joy. The new
> > user account sign-up data is obscured and held private for the wiki.
> > That is a valid design choice -- which brings me to a new GRLUG
> > community topic valid for this reflector [I believe]:
> >
> > What is the consensus opinion for the GRLUG wiki feature list?
> >
> > Because I'm a newbie - as a wiki admin I propose to only:
> > a) extend the feature set already provided by the existing wiki.
> > b) establish editing rights for all GRLUG participants (not open)
> > c) guard a mailbox established for the "wiki admin" identity looking
> > for wiki issues to address from the general public readership
> > d) add a sandbox for all of us to play in with topics from past and
> > future meetings.
> >
> > Lets talk it up? </Followup>
>
> For a), I'd strongly suggest upgrading to the current version of
> MediaWiki. There's a lot to love in the current version.
>
> For b), it's actually not difficult to enable safe, *anonymous*
> editing of a MediaWiki. Rosetta Code has plain-text (works with lynx)
> captchas for anonymous editing, user creation, and for any edit that
> adds an external link. For Rosetta Code, this means that most users
> never see the captchas once they've created an account.
>
> d) is as easy as creating a page (Usually at Help:Sandbox), and
> leaving it editable to sysops and logged-in users.
>
> --
> :wq
>
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Ben
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