January 26th, 2009
The wiki tip of the week series by Ian Weller, published every Monday, is an effort to increase knowledge about useful features, policies, and other important things relating to the Fedora Project wiki. It is published weekly at its home page, Ian’s blog, and fedora-devel-list. You can also subscribe to an RSS feed of the tips.
With the new page naming and wiki structure policy in place, a lot of users on the wiki have recently been moving pages around, and often have been doing it the manual way: copy the source from one page to another, and make a redirect by hand. What most users apparently don’t realize is that there is a move button at the top of every page, and any logged-in user can use that button.
When moving your page it’s a very good idea to give a reason for doing so. You can also choose to move a page’s corresponding discussion page along with it too, if it has one. This is very useful for archiving pages (simply tack on Archive: at the beginning of the page name) or moving your old pages. And of course, please watch your pages.
Using the move tab automatically creates a redirect and can also fix other redirects to prevent double redirects.
Probably the most important part of using the move tab instead of a manual move is that page histories are kept across both pages, so it’s much easier to find who edited what and when.
However if the new page already has content (perhaps a #REDIRECT), MediaWiki won’t allow you to move the page (unless you have the power to delete pages). You’ll still need to move the page by hand, in this case.
Learn more: Help:Moving a page at meta.wikimedia.org
Original link to this wiki tip on the Fedora wiki
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January 25th, 2009
Always use an edit summary when making a change to a page. It helps us understand why you’re making an edit instead of seeing absolutely no clues as to why you did that.
What is this elusive edit summary? It’s the text input field just above the buttons to save the page. It looks like this.
There’s even a setting you can set in your preferences that will remind you to fill in an edit summary. Click on the “Editing” tab, then check the “Prompt me when entering a blank edit summary” box.
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January 16th, 2009
Just a quick note that I’ll be checking each edit and making sure that it’s up to par with current policy. If you log in and see a little box that says “You have new messages”, that’s on your user talk page, where I’ll most likely discuss things with you.
Is this insane? Yes. Is this a good way to check that people know what they’re doing? Yes. :)
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August 22nd, 2008
This week was quite an interesting one. Twas my first full week of school, with about 35 more to come… from just this year.
Tuesday, in English, we had tests over our summer reading (which I got about half done). Still got about an 80% on those, so I was ecstatic. Or maybe they were just simple. Whatever.
Physics on Wednesdays and Fridays is just tiring, because it’s 90 minutes of sitting in a classroom, not taking down notes about things I’ve learned four years ago, and watching it be reexplained forty or fifty times because each individual student has a specific way of having no clue what they’re doing. I wish I could sleep, I wish I could use my laptop… I wish I could ignore the world around me there. Something needs to give me the strength to sleep through not only the unwillingness to learn of the students, but the unwillingness of the teachers to teach us well. If I knew nothing about Physics, I wouldn’t get it either.
Speaking of science four years ago, the science teacher I had then is an assistant principal at my school now. Not sure how that happened, especially since I didn’t think she was even in the district for the last three years. Can’t remember.
Today, my colleague in debate and I taught the novices, because our coach apparently wanted to see our perspective on debate before he taught the next class, so he knew he was teaching us right. Uh?
And, we watched a movie in APAH today over a Native American tribe, and I found it somewhat boring since I was half asleep. Of course, it was interesting, just… not.
Oh well. An interesting week, nonetheless.
Props to the Fedora Infrastructure team for rebuilding a multitude of servers in about a week and catching an intruder before anything bad happened. We couldn’t have this great distro without you guys.
This weekend, I plan to work on the websites I need to get finished/fixed and work on fixing random wiki pages. Or perhaps I might work on adding some more random functions to my Pascal’s triangle generator in the ianweller-misc repository. Or, perhaps, I want to catch up on sleep. Maybe I’ll do all three. Or, I can quite possibly do none of these things. Instant gratification is what I absurdly rely on, and it’ll push me through this weekend and many more weeks to come.
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July 27th, 2008
A fun personal project of mine, fuse-mediawiki, has been pushed to 0.1. It’s most likely still very broken, but it’d be nice if people would be able to test it a bit, submit patches, whatever.
Fetch the source with
$ git clone git://repo.or.cz/fuse-mediawiki.git
and play around. This’ll get you started with the Fedora Project wiki:
$ mkdir ~/wiki/
$ python fuse-mediawiki.git https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php ~/wiki/ --auth-basic -u FAS_USERNAME
$ mkdir -p ~/wiki/content/User:Ianweller/
$ vim ~/wiki/content/User:Ianweller/fuse-mediawiki_playground.wiki
and a :wq and changes will be committed to the wiki. Exit the filesystem with
$ fusermount -u ~/wiki/
Do NOT, under any circumstances, use this for real work and blame me for any damage caused. However, please do test it in places where it doesn’t matter what happens, and let me know what breaks.
There is currently nothing to prevent you from overwriting somebody else’s changes. There is currently nothing that clears out the cache of a page unless you remount it.
I have no clue how this works in Emacs, or gedit, or anything else. Patches welcome to fix it. :)
If you’re trying to debug something, pass the -f option to the end of the command line; it’ll put the program in the foreground and print fun debugging information. Read the README for more info.
This may be a personal project, but if somebody would like to work on this with me, that’d be great! Shoot me an email.
Edit: I fail. The correct option for auth_basic is --http-basic.
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May 27th, 2008
The new Fedora Wiki, powered by MediaWiki, is now finally complete! Well… on the infrastructure side, that is.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Main_Page
Wiki editors: see the Wiki migration to-do page on what you can do to help make this migration even better.
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May 25th, 2008
Hey, you. Yeah, you. Fedora wiki editors.
We still need your help.
Login to the new wiki with your Fedora Accounts System username and password, start out with your project’s pages, and fix what you can. (Use the regular ‘login’, link, not OpenID; we’re still testing that.)
What we need fixed the most are links that didn’t get translated. For example…
["Websites"] needs to be [[Websites]]
ForbiddenItems needs to be [[ForbiddenItems]]
and anything else that didn’t get linked.
Also, move over your user page. Go to `http://fedoraproject.org/wikinew/WikiName` (and be logged in), hit “move” at the top, and move it to User:fasname (of course, replacing fasname with your FAS username). Don’t worry about broken links, MediaWiki fixes this for ya.
Can’t fix the code yourself? Open a ticket at the fedora-infrastructure Trac instance on Fedora Hosted. Log in and you’ll see the New Ticket link. Be sure to put “WIKI” in the keywords.
Lets make the final switch on Tuesday as painless as possible :)
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