Wiki

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We've started offering a mediawiki service. This page, for example is served by mediawiki.

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How to sign up

Please visit our new self-service Web Application Sign-UP, or WASUP at: 

   https://webservices.itcs.umich.edu/
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User rights

Users can be given higher levels of access to a wiki through the use of User Rights. The primary admin of a wiki should be added to the bureaucrat group. This change must be done manually. Bureaucrat can give other users sysop access via the Special:Makesysop page. Other rights can be modified via the Special:Userrights page.

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Suggestions

  • Have a front page on the shared host webapps.itcs.umich.edu listing all "public" wikis on the service that want to be listed there. -- markmont, 26 Jul 2006
  • When the service goes production, see if we can have the shared host use the name wiki.umich.edu. This would be easier on non-technical end users (shorter and making more sense to them), allowing them to access their wiki through https://wiki.umich.edu/shortname/ -- markmont, 26 Jul 2006
  • Ideally, we'd like to roll out a webform which people can use to sign up for the centralized web app services that they want. This would ask them for their configuration data, and write the config files to their home or group AFS directory, allowing them to access the file and change it anytime. In this new world, service creations would be nearly instantaneous, as the new site was created. -- willn, 17 Aug 2006
  • Enable people to permit/restrict view and edit privileges to the wiki to the following "special groups": "everyone in the world" (we have this ability already", "everyone who has authenticated (uniqnames and friends)", "UofM users only (uniqnames but *not* friends)". These would be in addition to using regular LDAP groups for access control (which we have now). This would allow you to say "We want to restrict viewing of the wiki to people with cosign or friend accounts, and restrict editing to people with uniqnames only". --markmont, 17 Aug 2006, seconded billdo, 8 Sep 2006
  • Right now, you need a trailing slash on the end of the URL for a wiki on the shared host. https://wiki.umich.edu/shortname does not work. For non-technical end users, it would be great if a rewrite rule or other solution could be added that permitted URLs without a slash after the shortname. -- markmont, 24 Aug 2006
  • Likewise, for non-technical end users, it would be great if the "s" in "https" were optional. In other words, have http://wiki.umich.edu/shortname/ either be redirected to or rewritten as https://wiki.umich.edu/shortname/ -- markmont, 26 Aug 2006.
    • non-authenticated conferences, of course, should not have such a redirect since they provide content at http:
  • Have a default Help:Contents page for new wikis pointing to basic documentation on how to use MediaWiki, so that each new wiki does not have to populate this page itself. But encourage wiki owners to modify this page. -- markmont, 26 Aug 2006
  • Add support for citations -- chanover, 27 Sep 2006
  • Have a default Help:Editing page for new wikis pointing to basic documentation on editing (such as to http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Editing ) so that each new wiki does not have to populate this page itself. But encourage wiki owners to modify this page. -- kshawkin, 14 Aug 2007
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Known Issues

  • temporary session loss
  • page deletion doesn't work in the current version (1.6.7)
  • editing user preferences doesn't work
  • moving a page doesn't work
  • e-mail addresses do not auto populate in prefs page for watching
  • user lists could be use by spammers to gather e-mail addresses
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