2010-03-27, 05:39 PM
Blah, I get tired of making new topics here. It's definitely not the same as a wikipedia article (status report??) but I've decided very soon, probably within the next week I'll be setting up a Sword of Moonlight / anything remotely KF related wiki at https://www.\<span> site blocked, contact your administrator/wiki/.
I'm a huge fan of the wiki format nonetheless for most problem domains a wiki should be a supplement / little else. Anyway I could not think how to integrate a wiki into swordofmoonlight.com/net. I suppose the word "wiki" itself is not so terribly compatible aesthetically (how about a tiki wiki)
I've set this up before with a partner site (eg. https://www.digitaldevildb.com/wiki/Kerberos) ...Basically this is "scraper" though it actually performs a service in that it reformats the content and presents it in a readonly format without all the trappings/meta content of a wiki. I intend to do the same with the SOM wiki I'll be installing. Only with one twist... WordPress has a dynamically generated 404 page it goes to whenever it can't match a url to its database. So what I'm planning is to make the 404 page the scraper page, so any url that doesn't have a WordPress page will be treated as a wiki page title. So \<span> site blocked, contact your administrator/Sword of Moonlight will go to the readonly/prettified version of the Sword of Moonlight page on the wiki (for example)
Anyone can edit the wiki (Captcha for not logged-in edits) at \<span> site blocked, contact your administrator/wiki/. The version of the pages on the .com/net website will have a disclaimer so no big deal.
If the wiki takes on a life of its own that's no big deal/probably great. But the real reason I want it there at this point, is I really want the "new" website to have a Sword of Moonlight for dummies organization but without being too top heavy in the page dept. So what I'm thinking is for example say in a tutorial, you could have several steps, but ideally you only want a few, or peoples eyes will glaze over. So instead of adding a step to explain to people how to tell the extension of a Windows file (which is pretty damn involved if they don't know extensions exist because they're hidden by default) you could just slip a link like "/Windows File Extensions" (which might redirect to /Windows#File Extensions) in the Wordpress post that would open in a new tab which would ideally include a screenshot tutorial of how to enable file extensions.
That hypothetical wiki page/section could've been made by the page/post author or earlier perhaps by someone posting in a forum, or even transcribed from a post in a forum by a thoughtful archivist.
FYI: Prettified passes the Firefox inline spell checker. Prettification does not (https://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Prettified)
I'm a huge fan of the wiki format nonetheless for most problem domains a wiki should be a supplement / little else. Anyway I could not think how to integrate a wiki into swordofmoonlight.com/net. I suppose the word "wiki" itself is not so terribly compatible aesthetically (how about a tiki wiki)
I've set this up before with a partner site (eg. https://www.digitaldevildb.com/wiki/Kerberos) ...Basically this is "scraper" though it actually performs a service in that it reformats the content and presents it in a readonly format without all the trappings/meta content of a wiki. I intend to do the same with the SOM wiki I'll be installing. Only with one twist... WordPress has a dynamically generated 404 page it goes to whenever it can't match a url to its database. So what I'm planning is to make the 404 page the scraper page, so any url that doesn't have a WordPress page will be treated as a wiki page title. So \<span> site blocked, contact your administrator/Sword of Moonlight will go to the readonly/prettified version of the Sword of Moonlight page on the wiki (for example)
Anyone can edit the wiki (Captcha for not logged-in edits) at \<span> site blocked, contact your administrator/wiki/. The version of the pages on the .com/net website will have a disclaimer so no big deal.
If the wiki takes on a life of its own that's no big deal/probably great. But the real reason I want it there at this point, is I really want the "new" website to have a Sword of Moonlight for dummies organization but without being too top heavy in the page dept. So what I'm thinking is for example say in a tutorial, you could have several steps, but ideally you only want a few, or peoples eyes will glaze over. So instead of adding a step to explain to people how to tell the extension of a Windows file (which is pretty damn involved if they don't know extensions exist because they're hidden by default) you could just slip a link like "/Windows File Extensions" (which might redirect to /Windows#File Extensions) in the Wordpress post that would open in a new tab which would ideally include a screenshot tutorial of how to enable file extensions.
That hypothetical wiki page/section could've been made by the page/post author or earlier perhaps by someone posting in a forum, or even transcribed from a post in a forum by a thoughtful archivist.
FYI: Prettified passes the Firefox inline spell checker. Prettification does not (https://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Prettified)