"What is a Wiki?" questions
What is a Wiki?
The term Wiki is a shortened form of WikiWikiWeb. A Wiki
is a database of pages that can be collaboritively edited using a web
browser.
A MoinMoin is a wiki provided by the python wiki program MoinMoin.
To be honest, it is good for whatever you use it for. At
In general, a wiki is very much a free-form tool, whose
Wikis are used internally by the guys who write
Here are some important wiki features:
A Wiki can accomplish certain things very easily, but there are
This is an important question. In general, wiki's have
There are two main ways to devalue a wiki. One is through erasure
Explicit and intentional
In other words, the philosophy of wiki is one of dealing manually with the
There are already more ways to search and/or scan the wiki than you
Click on the RecentChanges link at the top of any page.
Any mixed case name that doesn't have a page will show up as a red link.
If you see something you'd like to comment on, add to, or change,
Not very many. It helps to keep certain types of information
The wiki has a feature called "Templates" which show up when you
A. If the content already exists on a web site, then just add
You can make the link "prettier" by putting "cover" wording for the
You can include a url to the image in the page. Example:
If they are significant, or you want people to know that you made them,
However, in some cases it may be appropriate to just make your change
A. If you want to add a single line of HTML, use the HTML macro.
[[HTML(<font size=+12>This is large font</font>)]]
This would show up on the page as:
It's also possible to place an html document into a page by adding
Diffs need two things to work properly:
"DeletePage" is not active by default, since it's most often used in intranets only and is somewhat dangerous in public wikis. To allow this and other dangerous actions, add them like this to moin_config.py:
There is a lot of administration information on the RecentChanges page,
I usually set up an "AdminPage", where I put macros for
Not directly. It's easy to do (if you have permissions where
For people reading this FAQ page (which is probably not your average attacker), there is this way to restore a page:
Templates are pages that show up automatically as options when you
To create a Template page, just create a new page called <something>Template
What is a MoinMoin??
What is this good for?
![[WWW]](http://kenial.net/wiki/img/moin-www.gif){kind=small}
Lineo
we have put up a wiki on our internal web site with
very many pages, which describe various projects, architectures,
ideas, etc. for people to comment on. Some pages just sit there and
convey information. Other pages are an open invitation for discussion
and commentary. We also have set up a wiki for a very simple skills
database.
value derives from the use to which it is put. For instance, a page in
a wiki can serve the same purpose as a discussion thread. You could
use a wiki page to collaboratively work on a project. Zope
to manage their ideas and projects. What are the major features of a Wiki?
How does this compare to other collaboration tools, like Notes?
some things it cannot do. The biggest missing
feature is some kind of access control, to allow only certain groups
to see and manipulate informatin. What about Wiki security? Isn't a Wiki subject to complete wipeout or nastiness from a saboteur?
NO security. (That's right!) Because of this, the
possibility exists for accidental or conscious destruction or corruption
of part of all of the wiki.
and the other is through corruption. Dealing with erasure is not terribly
difficult, because there is a change log (and back versions) of every page
maintained in a location inaccessible to web users. Thus, when page
deletions or major content erasures are detected (which should be fairly
quickly), pages can be restored quite easily to their previous good state.
corruption is more difficult to deal with. The possibility exists that someone
can enter incorrect information onto a page, or edit pages to intentionally
change the information so it is incorrect (for example, people can change
the attributions on a page to make it look like a different person made a
particular comment, or someone can change the content of a paragraph to
alter its meaning in a detrimental way). Pretty much any collaborative system
has this problem. A Wiki is just more wide open to it, since it lacks
any security at all. In practice, wiki corruption is an extremely rare
event, and one that could be dealt with (if needed) with a notification
feature (to a fixed auditor) for new material submission.
rare (exception) case of a saboteur, rather than designing in features
and overhead (both in implementation and in usage) to avoid the damage
caused by a saboteur. Questions about using this Wiki
Finding and accessing information in the wiki
How can I search the wiki?
can "shake a stick at":
page, where you can search by keyword in title, by full text, with
normal words or wildcards (regular expressions).
of all pages by title.
word in every title (ie, the Bluetooth page is under, B, Bluetooth).
that have words in their titles that are similar to the current page.
shows what pages link to the current page (which may help you
find related pages). How do I see what's been going on recently in the wiki?
What are these WeirdRedLinks? I keep finding all over the place?
Adding information to the wiki
How do add something to the wiki, or change something that's wrong?
just click on the EditText link at the bottom of the page, or click on
the 
icon at the top of the page. The page is brought
up in a text-edit pane in your browser, and you simply make the changes.
The wiki formatter will generally "do the right thing" with any text
you enter. If you want to get fancy, you can do most of the same types
of formatting that html allows you to do. See the HelpOnFormatting? page for some tips and examples. Are there any conventions I should follow when adding information?
formatted in a consistent way. One important
convention that will help with consistency is the use of "Template"
pages.
create a new page. If you click on one of
these when creating a new page, then that page will have a structure
similar to others of the same type. For example, when creating your own Wiki
homepage, you should use the HomepageTemplate? page, which is available when
you create a new page in the wiki. How can I add non-text information to the Wiki?
a link to a wiki page. Follow these steps:
The wiki will automatically make a hypertext link from the text you
type in.
link in brackets. The cover wording will appear on the page, but the
link will take the user to the URL when clicked on. Here's an example:
[http://your.link.here/foo.html This will be the link text]
produces: How do I add an image to a page?
http://www.lineo.com/images/products/uclinux/logo_small.gif
produces 
Should I sign my changes?
then yes. Just put your name or email address after your comment. It is
not uncommon to indent your comment under the statement your are commenting
on. Also, it helps to italicize your comment to make it stand off
from the main body of the page you are commenting on.
anonymously. Correcting spelling, formatting, or trivial word changes
are some examples where it is not necessary (and even discouraged) for
you to sign your modification. Adding other document formats to the wiki
Can I add HTML to the wiki?
This is done by putting your html text as a parameter to the
HTML macro, like so:
This is large font
#format html
as the first line in the page. If that line is there then the whole
page will be interpreted as HTML (thus making links to other pages
becomes a bit more difficult!) Make sure that you only add the body
portion of the page (not the HTML headers or anything else outside
of the body, including the <BODY> tag itself).
All of this only works if the HTML extensions (HTML macro and parser) are installed. Installation & Configuration
See HelpOnAdministration? for general help on this topic Why is the "diff" feature not working?
How do I activate the "DeletePage" option?
allowed_actions=['DeletePage']
Administering the Wiki
How do I administer the wiki?
including the number of pages, and the macros and actions that are installed.
these, as well as information about the real physical location of the
pages, and macros for orphan pages or other things an adminstrator
for the wiki might want to look at. Can I restore a page from an older version?
the actual wiki data files are kept. But usually, you must
request the wiki administrator to restore the page for you.
This is done as a hedge against the
improbable case of someone trying to sabotage the wiki.
How do I create a new Template page?
create a blank page. Any page that ends in the word Template will
automatically show up in the list. Hence, if you want certain
types of pages to have a similar format (similar headings, organization,
etc.), you just define a page that ends in Template, and when creating
pages of this type, select that template and edit it. The wiki
fills in the starting content for you. Templates are editable wiki
pages like any other.
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