[DGD] DGD Wiki

[Daniel Sloan]

Haven't got much experience with stuff like moinmoin, but I have set up 
a few other types of wikis, including one for the mudlib I've been 
working on (very slowly, albeit), and one for the mud I used to be a 
major part of.  I used tikiwiki for both of those systems, and in both 
cases it took no more than half an hour to set up the wiki and a day or 
so to transfer the static content into wiki pages.  You can find them at 
http://www.ainu.dhs.org and http://macrocosm.sf.net

As for authentication, with something like tikiwiki for example you 
could have the system set up so that you have regular reader accounts, 
and publisher accounts - the publisher accounts would be able to publish 
content submitted by themselves or readers, and probably grant 
publishing rights to other reader accounts as well. Or as you say, just 
require email verification which will work in most cases...

There might be better choices than tikiwiki given that it doesn't really 
need to do anything other than a wiki - tikiwiki has heaps of other 
features as well though, which could be useful.

Of course if that approach was going to be taken someone would have to 
host it...
- Dworkin.nl? (Would make sense I guess, if its convenient)
- I could host it on danielsloan.org (500 Mb space, 10Gb bandwidth per 
month, wiki software already set up)
- Sourceforge (ugh, slow!)
- Someone else with a better suggestion?

Cheers,
Daniel.

will guaraldi wrote:
> 
> Mmm...  It's a moinmoin wiki.  I actually did just as you described to a 
> moinmoin wiki I have that had been spammed.  Well, it was spammed and I 
> wanted to upgrade to the latest version of MoinMoin which allegedly has 
> anti-spamming measures (though I don't really know exactly what they 
> mean by that or how they work).
> 
> Anyhow, I upgraded moinmoin, updated all the wiki data (which took a 
> bit--you have to run a dozen shell scripts that do all kinds of 
> interesting stuff), created a new wiki, moved the good contents of the 
> old wiki into the new wiki, and that's where I'm at right now.
> 
> The other thing I did was go through and remove all the "non-english" 
> pages.  That reduces the size of the wiki storage-wise and also reduces 
> the number of potentially spamable pages.
> 
> /will
> 
> 
> On Thu, 13 Jan 2005, Erwin Harte wrote:
> 
>>
>> The DGD Wiki had again/still/yet-some-more gotten covered in spam, and 
>> I've started 'reverting' pages to the non-spammed version:
>>
>>    http://www.2-10.org/dgdwiki/RecentChanges
>>
>> After a few I remembered to actually log in with my WikiName, hence 
>> the ipname for the first dozen or so. *cough*
>>
>> It seems a fairly pointless task, though, as spam has been littered on 
>> every damn page, including ones that were not really intended to ever 
>> be changed (the help pages, all the non-English pages).
>>
>> The easy way out would seem to take the useful contents, start this or 
>> another Wiki from scratch, and drop the pages in, there, and also 
>> require some sort of authentication for making changes to the Wiki, 
>> and email-verification before one is allowed to start.
>>
>> How doable does this sound?  I've never set up a Wiki from scratch, 
>> myself, just worked with existing ones.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Erwin.
> 
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