MORC Wiki - Development

[gopherhockey]

I installed a wiki on the MORC site as well as a plugin that allows your userid to pass over to the wiki without having to re-login. This will allow us to map usergroups from the forums to the wiki and keep with a single signon.

Anyway, the link is here:

http://www.morcmtb.org/wiki

I need to work out the mapping of usergroups as well as see if this is even useful for anything. If anyone wants to give it a look please feel free.

If you search for "Battle Creek" you will find the only page I started (for now). The idea would be to allow edits to the trail review text.

If anyone can think of any other uses let me know.

[DmacBmac]

Looks sweet John!!

[MisterClaw]

If anyone can think of any other uses let me know.
This wiki would be perfect to HOWTOs like homemade studded tires and light systems.

[TML]

I've made a couple of changes to the BC wiki. Definitely more to come, but I pulled out the outdated stuff. I think going this route might be a good direction. I like being able to edit it myself.

Nice work John!

[gopherhockey]

This wiki would be perfect to HOWTOs like homemade studded tires and light systems.

Great idea! I added the Tire Studding How-To (rough and un-formatted) to the Wiki just to see how that goes.

[gopherhockey]

I've made a couple of changes to the BC wiki. Definitely more to come, but I pulled out the outdated stuff. I think going this route might be a good direction. I like being able to edit it myself.

Nice work John!

Sweet, thanks for doing that!

I need to figure out the whole editing thing eventually. What I'd like is for everyone to be able to contribute, but have certain "moderators" approve edits and be able to made direct edits themselves. That way we don't get people fighting on how the wording goes. I don't want to break the theme of the Wiki (i.e. group contributions) but at the same time I don't want someone flat out breaking it either.

I'm working to get a better editor integrated into the site as well. As it is, text is easy to edit but making it look nice is a real chore.

[smklugherz]

I put together a trail review template that can be used to write new trail reivews and added a index page. The template is called TrailReview (duh). You can take a look at the BC page to see how to use it.

Add anything you want to it. Right now, I know it is missing sections for near by hospitals, etc.

[gopherhockey]

I'm going to do some upgrades to the Wiki system to better integrate with the forums... hopefully it will be functional here again shortly.

[gopherhockey]

The Wiki system is being integrated to look a little more like our forums. I have a lot of work to do to iron out some missing images etc. and make it look better.

I almost preferred the Wiki look & feel but we'll see how this works. Apparently with the new integration edits to the wiki will count toward your post count total, and also you can generate threads automatically with wiki page creation etc.

[manual63]

Could this have anything to do with the fact that when I click on home or try to go directly to http://www.morcmtb.org/ my browser asks me if I want to save a file?

Not sure if anyone else is having this issue. I got in by putting index.php after the domain....otherwise, I could not get in.

[smklugherz]

I was receiving the same error yesterday. Are others still having this problem. I figured it was when John was wiki-fying the site.

[mn_ultra_guy]

See here. Us Firefox users are unleashing some nastiness against John and the man!

http://www.morcmtb.org/forums/showthread.php?t=21778

I was receiving the same error yesterday. Are others still having this problem. I figured it was when John was wiki-fying the site.

[smklugherz]

Us Firefox users.....

Uh Oh! are we going to start a technology holy war.:fool:

[Shorty]

Can anyone edit these trail reviews?

Is there some sort of approval process before the edits are posted to the page?

Will the Trail Stewards have to consistently monitor these pages so that users aren't getting bad or incorrect info?

Thanks!

[Kingbozo]

I was receiving the same error yesterday. Are others still having this problem. I figured it was when John was wiki-fying the site.


I had to clear my cache. That took care of it.

[smklugherz]

Can anyone edit these trail reviews?

Is there some sort of approval process before the edits are posted to the page?

Will the Trail Stewards have to consistently monitor these pages so that users aren't getting bad or incorrect info?

Thanks!


The idea is that anyone can edit the pages and like wikipedia, it becomes self policing. It is very easy to rollback to a pevious version if someone does not like the edit. I am not aware of an approval process you can put in place. We use a wiki at work to keep to maintain some developer documentation, and ususally the "owner" of the data subscribes to the page and be notified of updates. You can set it up so that only certain user groups can edit pages.

[trompete]

The idea is that anyone can edit the pages and like wikipedia, it becomes self policing. It is very easy to rollback to a pevious version if someone does not like the edit. I am not aware of an approval process you can put in place. We use a wiki at work to keep to maintain some developer documentation, and ususally the "owner" of the data subscribes to the page and be notified of updates. You can set it up so that only certain user groups can edit pages.

AND..admins can always protect pages that should only be edited by admins. There should be a link on every page to "Mark page as patrolled". You can see which pages haven't been reviewed from an Admin's "Special Pages" link.

Oh, and if the wiki gets too slow or hits the database hard, there is a nice plugin for using memcached.

[MisterClaw]

This wiki would be perfect to HOWTOs like homemade studded tires and light systems.

I've also had a back-burner plan for a repository/wiki of cold weather biking information.- clothes, gear, and planning. This will be a perfect place to put information online!

[smklugherz]

I've also had a back-burner plan for a repository/wiki of cold weather biking information.- clothes, gear, and planning. This will be a perfect place to put information online!

Great idea! Good place for a guy like me who only bikes in the summer to figure out what I need to know.

[gopherhockey]

I've also had a back-burner plan for a repository/wiki of cold weather biking information.- clothes, gear, and planning. This will be a perfect place to put information online!

I would invite anyone with great ideas like this to start up a page. Forums are great places to post stuff, of course, but for some things I think a wiki makes more sense. Threads get bogged down with Firefox BS and get off topic too quickly ;)

I will look into page protection... it might make sense to use this where we have reviews like Petes that are pretty up to date... possibly giving a group of trail stewards only access to a few of the more up-to-date reviews, but then leave some of them that never get updated to the community.

We'll see how it goes... for now, feel free to play. I'll leave the real trail reviews section in place (of course) for now.

[gopherhockey]

I put together a trail review template that can be used to write new trail reivews and added a index page. The template is called TrailReview (duh). You can take a look at the BC page to see how to use it.

Add anything you want to it. Right now, I know it is missing sections for near by hospitals, etc.

I'm trying to figure out something on the Battle Creek wiki. Is there a way to make the [edit] smaller, as well as the bolded headers? Also, the trail details in the box seem to run into the trail review a bit.

I'm trying to figure out if it is the template doing that, or is it the skin that was placed over the wiki when I upgraded the connection software... Whatever created that box is really cool though! I assume thats the template...

[smklugherz]

It is a little of both. the edits being large are being pulled from the style sheet used for the forum. I can change that because the edit things do not work when you use a template anyway (just found out). The "about" box, I can not figure out. It has something to do with the style attributes I applied to it, but it has been 5 years since I last did html, so someone...anyone with more relevant experience, feel free to take a crack at it.

[gopherhockey]

It is a little of both. the edits being large are being pulled from the style sheet used for the forum. I can change that because the edit things do not work when you use a template anyway (just found out). The "about" box, I can not figure out. It has something to do with the style attributes I applied to it, but it has been 5 years since I last did html, so someone...anyone with more relevant experience, feel free to take a crack at it.

I found the .css file that was controlling font size and did some tweaking.

In the meantime, we seem to have lost the "Contents" section of the Battle Creek page. The Contants box is created using built-in Level 2 headline tags I believe. Did this get changed? I liked it better with the Contents available.

I'm spending entirely too much time on the wiki.

Added the wiki to the navbar (above) for now to get it more attention. I don't know that everyone knows what a wiki is.

[smklugherz]

I changed the level two headings to just bold text. I will fix.

[Ish]

I don't know that everyone knows what a wiki is.

Is that a drink best consumed in a Tiki hut? :cool:

[gopherhockey]

One thing I notice when using the template. The edit links on each section don't edit the actual page, but the template. It would be nice to be able to have those actually edit the section of the page instead. Anyone know how to do that?

[gopherhockey]

Added the ability to insert Google Maps into wiki pages. Built the first one on the Hartley Park trail review.