• Skin work
    • Modify Vector
    • mobile/light skin
    • share this button
  • Vandal Protection
    • prevent spam account creation (Captcha)
    • setup vandal bot
  • Offline viewing
  • Forum
  • Cross site login
  • Liquid threads

Pywikipediabot[edit | edit source]

So setup was pretty simple. I decided to run the automated config file maker

python generate_user_files.py

. Sadly it didn't have appropedia listed, but modifying the config file it made was pretty simple. I suppose adding appropedia_family.py file might have made this process easier.

Wasn't really clear how to do stuff from the quick start page IMO, but I took their suggestion and used replace.py first. Wasn't sure how it was supposed to be used so I just tried it with no commands. That didn't work :S

Instead you seem to have to specify a start page and maybe the name space (not sure). Anyways

python replace.py -namespace:2 -start:User:Tahnok

managed to work for me.

WikiLinking[edit | edit source]

  1. are to stick to mainspace, Original: and Appropedia: spaces
  2. don't add a link if one exists.
  3. only link the first occurrence of a term (or one of its synonyms if applicable)
  4. avoid pages with {{.*?inprogress.*?}} (& if you can improve on any of my regex, please tell me - I'm learning too.)

List of items to link (via Chriswaterguy):


  • Developing Countr(?:y|ies)|Developing nations?|Third-world countr(?:y|ies)
  • Appropedia
  • Wikipedia
  • education.
  • volunteering
  • channel irrigation
  • drip irrigat(?:e|ion|ing)
  • irrigat(?:e|ion|ing)
  • flood(?:ing|s|)
  • laundr(?:y|ies|)
  • Overpopulation
  • population density
  • housing density
  • residential
  • mixed.use
  • ecology
  • open access
  • (?:open|free).licen(?:c|s)(?:es?|ing)
  • Open development wikis?
  • development wikis?
  • Open development
  • Humboldt State( University)?|HSU
  • CCAT|Campus Center for Appropriate Technology

Dev Wiki[edit | edit source]

To run a backup[edit | edit source]

It seems it's just a matter of running

dev.import.data.sh

but I could be wrong. File contains warnings that it may take quite a while so I'm not going to touch it for now.

reCAPTCHA[edit | edit source]

At the moment I have the key pair for whatissustainability.org from reCAPTCHA. Contact me if you need them

ConfirmEdit conflicts with the reCaptcha extension I was hoping to use. Thankfully ConfirmEdit support reCaptcha now. Sadly it's not a new enough version... :(

Enabled MathyCaptcha instead which uses <math> to make the question an image.


So it turns out ConfirmEdit needs to be running on the latest version of mediawiki which the dev wiki is not on.

Excellent! I've gotten my own personal wiki to run ConfirmEdit and recaptcha just fine!

2011-07 ReCAPTCHA using ConfirmEdit is live on appropedia.org but it has not slowed the number of spam accounts being created. Going to have to try something else instead. Perhaps blocking tor? Going to try and get a list of IPs from new users.

DumpHTML[edit | edit source]

It seems to be freezing on node 4041... must bugfix. Stuck again today but this time on node 4011. It's a pity there isn't a better way to debug this silly program.

ShareThis[edit | edit source]

Trying to get a share this button or link. I have code Here that adds a tweet this link to the toolbox.

User:Tahnok/ShareThis

Skins[edit | edit source]

Mobile Skins[edit | edit source]

At the moment wikia has a nice mobile skin which is activated by default if you're on a mobile device. It doesn't support editing, but viewing works nicely

Alternatively there is iWiki which looks promising (it supports editing). Going to try and set it up on the dev wiki

And it turns out the skin doesn't work on android and the edit function doesn't seem to be working properly... oh well

MobileThirteen[edit | edit source]

So I am trying to create my own skin for the wiki that uses as little bandwidth as possible and fits well on mobile screens. I have a HTC Dream (G1) and a Nook Color which I will be using for usability testing.

Current Iteration: http://imgur.com/yDnZQ

TODO:

  • Add colour
  • Incorporate logo?
  • Show/Hide content sections
  • Show hide tool boxes at the bottom

Elements of Mobile/Low Bandwidth Skin[edit | edit source]

Please feel free to update or discuss this.

Please see User:Tahnok/mobile skin for more details

Current Status: It's a go on the dev wiki!

Offline Viewing[edit | edit source]

There is an android app called wikidroyd that is capable of displaying offline copies of wikipedia. I assume you could make your own file and I will try to contact them about that.

OpenZIM[edit | edit source]

Look into http://openzim.org/Main_Page as it seems to be an interesting project that may go far in terms of offline viewing.

It looks like recent versions of the Collections plugin (which is currently installed) can create .ZIM files which can be viewed on any desktop/laptop using http://web.archive.org/web/20160117183342/http://www.kiwix.org/index.php/Main_Page .

OpenZIM also apparently can create a file based on an html dump of a wiki

Anti Vandal Bots[edit | edit source]

Let's see if I can set one of these guys up! I worry because some of them watch an IRC channel for recent changes, but I'm hoping they can be setup to run periodically.

Using this Bot Census

AntiSpamBot[edit | edit source]

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/User:AntiSpamBot

Looks like code is here

 svn co svn://hemlock.ts.wikimedia.org/shadow1/subversion/shadowbot shadowbot 

Uses perl and IRC

And it appears to be dead, nvm

ClueBotNG[edit | edit source]

Won't run because you require a comprehensive database of good and bad edits for it to learn from and I suspect using wikipedia's database will cause issues as appropedia has lots of OC

ClueBot[edit | edit source]

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/User:ClueBot

Uses php Source

AntiVandalBot[edit | edit source]

Written in PHP. Claims to be usable with any mediawiki site. Also under active development

 svn co https://antivandalbot.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/antivandalbot antivandalbot  

Source

Mediawiki/Wordpress Integration[edit | edit source]

How will this work?

It looks like there are two ways to have accounts be drawn from Wordpresses database and that will log you into mediawiki and vice versa but this isn't what we want unless I can find a way to import a mediawiki account db into wordpress. See

This extension will export all usernames and emails and claims to be extensible to other fields (password hashes perhaps?) http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:UserExport

Asked question on Server Fault http://serverfault.com/questions/269513/using-mediawiki-as-a-user-database-for-wordpress

LDAP[edit | edit source]

LDAP seems to be a fairly well developed and used authentication protocol that has plugins for wordpress and mediawiki

Someone else has tried to get users information out of mediawiki and into LDAP but he doesn't provide details... http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/mediawiki/101789 It's old (2007) but it's a start

OpenID[edit | edit source]

I should look into how well openID works if I'm already logged in. I have some experience trying to use OpenID on sites and it doesn't auto log me in. I'm also not sure if we can restrict logging in on the blog to only users with OpenID accounts on a specific host. May not be possible because OpenID is supposed to prevent that.

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