Hello again, Our ever-hardworking system staff has upgraded the wiki to a new version of mediawiki and also added more rigorous measures to prevent spammers from defacing the wiki. The upgraded wiki is temporarily at: http://wiki-new.cs.princeton.edu/ http://wiki-new.cs.princeton.edu/index.php/ChucK The existing wiki will remain at the current URL until we make the switch: http://wiki.cs.princeton.edu/ http://wiki.cs.princeton.edu/index.php/ChucK The new wiki requires one to be logged in before he/she can edit a page. Furthermore, the registration page now has a CAPTCHA feature to help prevent bots. I guess this would be a good time to start moving contents from the old wiki to the new and doing some housecleaning. 1. I think the <pre> tags now work, but it may be better to denote code by inserting spaces before each line, like in the page: http://wiki.cs.princeton.edu/index.php/FractalMelody 2. Some or maybe most of the page could use some organizing and updating. Perhaps the ChucK_Programs page can benefit from some basic categorization. 3.The upload feature seems to be enabled for now, though I am not sure if this will be permanet. I will find out. 4. We will switch over to the new wiki probably early next week. (just the URL change from wiki -> wiki-old, and from wiki-new -> wiki) 5. Use the talk page to avoid collisions on edit. The talk page is accessible via the 'discussion' link on the top. Ready? Everyone of course is invited to contribute. Adam T. and Mike M. might want to coordinate this? Best, Ge!
Ge, Mediawiki is a great wiki engine (it supports the mother of all wikis ;-)), but is not very customisable. I think TWiki would be an excellent alternative, even though it may not be able to handle a large project like wikipedia. (It is much simpler in some aspects; it doesn't even require a database!) TWiki has a powerful extension mechanism using plugins, forms, templates and meta-data, which would help us to build different areas, like: "ChucK recipes"; "ChucK patterns"; "ChucK code"; "FAQs"; etc. Let me know if you'd like to give it a try! Nelson
Hi Nelson! We probably won't be able to change to TWiki unless we run it ourselves. The current wiki is shared by many projects and things and is supported by our system staff. Given our insane schedule, mediawiki is the easiest way to go. TWiki sounds very cool (just googled it) - perhaps we will switch over to it in the future. For now we don't have extra cycles to run/support it... Thanks for the suggestion. Best, Ge! On Feb 21, 2006, at 4:04 PM, Nelson Ferraz wrote:
Ge,
Mediawiki is a great wiki engine (it supports the mother of all wikis ;-)), but is not very customisable.
I think TWiki would be an excellent alternative, even though it may not be able to handle a large project like wikipedia. (It is much simpler in some aspects; it doesn't even require a database!)
TWiki has a powerful extension mechanism using plugins, forms, templates and meta-data, which would help us to build different areas, like: "ChucK recipes"; "ChucK patterns"; "ChucK code"; "FAQs"; etc.
Let me know if you'd like to give it a try!
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