OLPC talk:Wiki

Template for code fragments

Template:Code is based on http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Template:Code and requires an entry in MediaWiki:Common.css.

Here is an example: Compare # pwd to # pwd

It's meant to deal with the difficulty of reading reduced sized text on a gray background, which lowers contrast. Lighter gray and enlarged line-height and font-size should also be used for the <pre> and <tt> tags.

design thoughts

1. Wiki on a server

  .Server.  [ ---- Internet ]
  / / | \ \ 
  1 2 3 4 5    (support editing directly on a server.  issues: edit conflicts, bw)

2. Wiki on a mesh

   Server [ ---- Internet ] (direct editing of a server-based wiki)
     |
   __XO__      (shared net connection)
  /      \
  |      |
 / \    / \  
-1-2 .. N-M-   (support machine-to-machine editing with a mesh portal.  issues: portal vis)

3. Wiki locally / offline

(. . . .)
| | | | |
1 2 3 4 5  (... connect to server or web infrequently)

interwiki map

I think it should be kept 'small' the map... too many inter-wikis and we'll probably not use them. Also specific olpc-related wikis (like Nepal's, Tuquito, or similar) should be added. 2cts --Xavi 11:32, 19 June 2007 (EDT)

extensions

parser extensions (or rather the ability to do 'if') in some templates would probably simplify and enhance the use of it. Possible collateral damage is making it to cryptic. --Xavi 11:32, 19 June 2007 (EDT)

language

I saw in the special pages, the Special:Withoutinterwiki (labeled 'Pages without language links'). I tried a bit but couldn't get it to work... --Xavi 11:32, 19 June 2007 (EDT)

Shiki_Wiki link colors

The Shiki_Wiki skin, now the default, currently shows "seen" links as gray. This makes them very hard to scan for, as they blend in with the black text. The blue "unseen" links are ok, but once you have seen an article, its links disappear. Since link following is currently our main navigational technique, especially with Search being broken, this seems a very bad thing. Why are we using a non-standard link color anyway? Visual design should make the user experience easier and more pleasant, not cognitively harder. I strongly suggest reverting to browser link coloring. MitchellNCharity 15:12, 2 August 2007 (EDT)

You also now can't tell, based on link color, whether a discussion page exists or not. So you have to hover the mouse, and look to see if the url ends in edit. (observation by Xavi) MitchellNCharity 15:43, 2 August 2007 (EDT)

This shows up clearly on my monitors -- the gray vs blue for links and the gray vs white for existing vs empty talk pages. talk to the creator to get the colors changed! you can change your own back to monobook, of course, but better to get the skin fixed.... 59.112.162.93 16:57, 2 August 2007 (EDT)

I think that the "Sugar" skin shouldn't be the default. I see it as a novelty thing, with no other reason for being: while there are reasons for the current Sugar look on the XO's (the dual-screen, power, and other design constrains), these don't apply to a collaborative wiki on the web. It also has some rendering issues with Konqueror. HoboPrimate 17:38, 2 August 2007 (EDT) But I don't want to bring down the effort of the person who did it, it's nicely emulates Sugar's look. HoboPrimate 17:43, 2 August 2007 (EDT)

merges and renames

better nomenclature:

OLPCWiki: namespace --> OLPC:

This page : The OLPC Wiki

The OLPC Wiki --> Welcome

project suggestions

please suggest wikiprojects for this wiki here.

• OLPC Countries

  OLPC India, OLPC Mexico

• FAQ/query-help
• Repair/troubleshooting help
• Customization
• Build updates/installation
• Activities/Libraryes
• Specific wikiprojects for categories? peripherals.
• OLPC India - deployments, distribution, FAQs
• OLPC India - database of partnering organizations (combined with symantic wiki forms)
• OLPC India - content

Google Searching sans ads

As a non-profit, you should be able to get google search on this site without the ads. In google's Custom Search Engine page, there's a checkbox for non-profits to search without ads, and I assume later they ask for the tax-ID number, which is what they used to do.

Dialectric 11:55, 17 January 2008 (EST)

bad wiki!

The wiki looks awful in IE6. 158.59.194.136 10:59, 17 January 2008 (EST)

I can't even log in! 158.59.194.136 10:59, 17 January 2008 (EST)

I have same problem in IE6 / Win2000 SP4 and a javascript error in IE7 / WinXP SP2. -- LeeSI 11:30, 17 January 2008 (EST)

I'll check this out in IE6. I test with IE7 on WinXP myself; please post details of any js errors. --Sj talk 13:19, 3 February 2008 (EST)

Requested Extensions

I am very familiar with all of these scripting languages:

• EasyTimeLine
• GraphViz
• Google Maps
• Ogg Handler <== Must have

This would add pizzazz and a picture is worth a thousand words ... at least until the image namespace is all tidied up? — Katie 17:58, 21 January 2008 (EST)

+1 on the OGG handler, it enables the world to view them as well. ffm 19:41, 21 January 2008 (EST)

I'll add the above tonight if I can find time. Working on something for Google Spreadsheets at the moment; see below. --Sj leave me a message 10:00, 23 January 2008 (EST)

Comments on extensions

Ogg Handler : needs 1.11

EasyTimeline : needs more hand-tweaking; not quite working atm (renders svg but not png)

GraphViz : needs testing.

Google Maps : installed.

<gspread>pGb92U53cTUfH7nkkA88GZw||300||850</gspread>

<gspread>pGb92U53cTUfH7nkkA88GZw||170||850</gspread>

EasyTimeline

not working yet

<timeline> ImageSize = width:160 height:550 PlotArea = width:50 height:530 left:50 bottom:10 DateFormat = yyyy Period = from:1919 till:1992 TimeAxis = orientation:vertical ScaleMajor = unit:year increment:5 start:1920 there is no automatic collision detection, so shift texts up or down manually to avoid overlap Define $dx = 25 # shift text to right side of bar PlotData= bar:Leaders color:red width:25 mark:(line,white) align:left fontsize:S from:start till:1922 shift:($dx,15) text:Vladimir~Ilyich~Lenin from:1922 till:1953 shift:($dx,5) text:Josef Stalin from:1953 till:1964 shift:($dx,5) text:Nikita~Khrushchev from:1964 till:1982 shift:($dx,5) text:Leonid~Brezhnev from:1982 till:1984 shift:($dx,-12) text:Yuri~Andropov from:1984 till:1985 shift:($dx,4) text:Konstantin~Chernenko fontsize:XS from:1985 till:end shift:($dx,10) text:Mikhail~Gorbachev </timeline>		<timeline> ImageSize = width:800 height:100 PlotArea = left:65 right:15 bottom:20 top:5 AlignBars = justify Colors = id:neogene value:rgb(0.99215,0.8,0.54) id:paleogene value:rgb(1,0.7019,0) id:cretaceous value:rgb(0.5,0.764,0.1098) id:jurassic value:rgb(0.302,0.706,0.5) id:triassic value:rgb(0.403,0.765,0.716) id:permian value:rgb(0.404,0.776,0.867) id:carboniferous value:rgb(0.6,0.741,0.855) id:devonian value:rgb(0.6,0.6,0.788) id:silurian value:rgb(0.694,0.447,0.714) id:ordovician value:rgb(0.976,0.506,0.651) id:cambrian value:rgb(0.984,0.5,0.373) id:neoproterozoic value:rgb(0.792,0.647,0.583) id:mesoproterozoic value:rgb(0.867,0.761,0.533) id:paleoproterozoic value:rgb(0.702,0.698,0.369) id:eoarchean value:rgb(0.5,0.565,0.565) id:paleoarchean value:rgb(0.6,0.592,0.569) id:mesoarchean value:rgb(0.698,0.65,0.6) id:neoarchean value:rgb(0.796,0.804,0.784) id:ediacaran value:rgb(0.918,0.847,0.737) id:cryogenian value:rgb(0.863,0.671,0.667) id:tonian value:rgb(0.796,0.643,0.424) id:stratherian value:rgb(1,1,0.8) # light yellow id:calymmian value:rgb(1,1,0.8) # light yellow id:orosirian value:rgb(1,1,0.8) # light yellow id:rhyacian value:rgb(1,1,0.8) # light yellow id:siderian value:rgb(1,1,0.8) # light yellow id:ectasian value:rgb(1,1,0.8) # light yellow id:stenian value:rgb(1,1,0.8) # light yellow id:cenozoic value:rgb(1,1,0) id:mesozoic value:rgb(0.5,0.6784,0.3176) id:paleozoic value:rgb(0.5,0.7098,0.835) id:phanerozoic value:rgb(0.7019,0.886,0.819) id:proterozoic value:rgb(0.8,0.85,0.568) id:archean value:rgb(0.6,0.6784,0.6745) id:hadean value:rgb(0.4,0.4,0.4) id:black value:black id:white value:white Period = from:-4567.17 till:0 TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal ScaleMajor = unit:year increment:500 start:-4500 ScaleMinor = unit:year increment:100 start:-4500 Define $markred = text:"*" textcolor:red shift:(0,3) fontsize:10 PlotData= align:center textcolor:black fontsize:8 mark:(line,black) width:25 shift:(0,-5) bar:eon at: 0 align:right $markred at: -542 align:left $markred shift:(2,3) from: -542 till: 0 text:Phanerozoic color:phanerozoic from:-2500 till: -542 text:Proterozoic color:proterozoic from:-3800 till: -2500 text:Archean color:archean from: start till: -3800 text:Hadean color:hadean bar:era from: -65.5 till: 0 text:C~z shift:(0,1.5) color:cenozoic from: -251 till: -65.5 text:Meso~zoic shift:(0,1.5) color:mesozoic from: -542 till: -251 text:Paleo~zoic shift:(0,1.5) color:paleozoic from: -1000 till: -542 text:Neoprote-~rozoic shift:(0,1.8) color:neoproterozoic from:-1600 till: -1000 text:Mesoproterozoic color:mesoproterozoic from:-2500 till: -1600 text:Paleoproterozoic color:paleoproterozoic from:-2800 till: -2500 text:Neo-~archean shift:(0,1.5) color:neoarchean from:-3200 till: -2800 text:Meso-~archean shift:(0,1.5) color:mesoarchean from:-3600 till: -3200 text:Paleo-~archean shift:(0,1.5) color:paleoarchean from:-3800 till: -3600 text:Eoar-~chean shift:(0,0.5) color:eoarchean fontsize:6 from:start till: -3800 color:white bar:period fontsize:6 from: -23.03 till: 0 color:neogene from: -65.5 till: -23.03 color:paleogene from: -145.5 till: -65.5 color:cretaceous from: -199.6 till: -145.5 color:jurassic from: -251 till: -199.6 color:triassic from: -299 till: -251 color:permian from: -359.2 till: -299 color:carboniferous from: -416 till: -359.2 color:devonian from: -443.7 till: -416 color:silurian from: -488.3 till: -443.7 color:ordovician from: -542 till: -488.3 color:cambrian from: -630 till: -542 text:Ed. color:ediacaran from: -850 till: -630 text:Cryo-~genian color:cryogenian shift:(0,0.5) from: -1000 till: -850 text:Ton-~ian color:tonian shift:(0,0.5) from: -1200 till: -1000 text:Ste-~nian color:mesoproterozoic shift:(0,0.5) from: -1400 till: -1200 text:Ect-~asian color:mesoproterozoic shift:(0,0.5) from: -1600 till: -1400 text:Calym-~mian color:mesoproterozoic shift:(0,0.5) from: -1800 till: -1600 text:Stath-~erian color:paleoproterozoic shift:(0,0.5) from: -2050 till: -1800 text:Oro-~sirian color:paleoproterozoic shift:(0,0.5) from: -2300 till: -2050 text:Rhy-~acian color:paleoproterozoic shift:(0,0.5) from: -2500 till: -2300 text:Sid-~erian color:paleoproterozoic shift:(0,0.5) from: start till: -2500 color:white </timeline> <timeline> ImageSize = width:800 height:100 PlotArea = left:65 right:15 bottom:20 top:5 AlignBars = justify Colors = id:neogene value:rgb(0.99215,0.8,0.54) id:paleogene value:rgb(1,0.7019,0) id:cretaceous value:rgb(0.5,0.764,0.1098) id:jurassic value:rgb(0.302,0.706,0.5) id:triassic value:rgb(0.403,0.765,0.716) id:permian value:rgb(0.404,0.776,0.867) id:carboniferous value:rgb(0.6,0.741,0.855) id:devonian value:rgb(0.6,0.6,0.788) id:silurian value:rgb(0.694,0.447,0.714) id:ordovician value:rgb(0.976,0.506,0.651) id:cambrian value:rgb(0.984,0.5,0.373) id:cenozoic value:rgb(1,1,0) id:mesozoic value:rgb(0.5,0.6784,0.3176) id:paleozoic value:rgb(0.5,0.7098,0.835) id:phanerozoic value:rgb(0.7019,0.886,0.819) id:black value:black id:white value:white id:darkgreen value:rgb(0,0.35,0) Period = from:-542 till:0 TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal ScaleMajor = unit:year increment:100 start:-500 ScaleMinor = unit:year increment:10 start:-540 Define $markred = text:"*" textcolor:red shift:(0,3) fontsize:10 Define $markgreen = text:"*" textcolor:darkgreen shift:(0,3) fontsize:10 PlotData= align:center textcolor:black fontsize:8 mark:(line,black) width:25 shift:(0,-5) bar:eon at: 0 align:right $markred at: -542 align:left $markred shift:(2,3) from: -542 till: 0 text:Phanerozoic color:phanerozoic bar:era at: 0 align:right $markgreen at: -65.5 align:left $markgreen shift:(2,3) from: -65.5 till: 0 text:Cenozoic color:cenozoic from: -251 till: -65.5 text:Mesozoic color:mesozoic from: -542 till: -251 text:Paleozoic color:paleozoic bar:period fontsize:8 from: -23.03 till: 0 text:Neo-~gene shift:(0,0.5) color:neogene from: -65.5 till: -23.03 text:Paleo-~gene shift:(0,0.5) color:paleogene from: -145.5 till: -65.5 text:Cretaceous color:cretaceous from: -199.6 till: -145.5 text:Jurassic color:jurassic from: -251 till: -199.6 text:Triassic color:triassic from: -299 till: -251 text:Permian color:permian from: -359.2 till: -299 text:Carboniferous color:carboniferous from: -416 till: -359.2 text:Devonian color:devonian from: -443.7 till: -416 text:Sil-~urian shift:(0,0.5) color:silurian from: -488.3 till: -443.7 text:Ordovician color:ordovician from: -542 till: -488.3 text:Cambrian color:cambrian </timeline> <timeline> ImageSize = width:800 height:100 PlotArea = left:65 right:15 bottom:20 top:5 AlignBars = justify Colors = id:neogene value:rgb(0.99215,0.8,0.54) id:paleogene value:rgb(1,0.7019,0) id:cenozoic value:rgb(1,1,0) id:holocene value:rgb(1,1,0.702) id:pleistocene value:rgb(1,0.922,0.384) id:pliocene value:rgb(1,0.922,0.675) id:miocene value:rgb(1,0.871,0) id:oligocene value:rgb(0.918,0.776,0.447) id:eocene value:rgb(0.918,0.678,0.263) id:paleocene value:rgb(0.92,0.576,0.005) id:black value:black id:white value:white id:darkgreen value:rgb(0,0.35,0) Period = from:-65.5 till:0 TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal ScaleMajor = unit:year increment:10 start:-60 ScaleMinor = unit:year increment:1 start:-65 Define $markgreen = text:"*" textcolor:darkgreen shift:(0,3) fontsize:10 PlotData= align:center textcolor:black fontsize:8 mark:(line,black) width:25 shift:(0,-5) bar:era at: 0 align:right $markgreen at: start align:left $markgreen shift:(2,3) from:start till: 0 text:Cenozoic color:cenozoic bar:period from: -23.03 till: 0 text:Neogene color:neogene from:start till: -23.03 text:Paleogene color:paleogene bar:epoch from: -0.1 till: 0 color:holocene from: -1.806 till: -0.1 text:P color:pleistocene from: -5.332 till: -1.806 text:Plio-~cene shift:(0,1) color:pliocene fontsize:7 from:-23.03 till: -5.332 text:Miocene color:miocene from:-33.9 till:-23.03 text:Oligocene color:oligocene from:-55.8 till:-33.9 text:Eocene color:eocene from:start till:-55.8 text:Paleocene color:paleocene </timeline>
Template:Wikimedia Growth

trac extension

<trac>1<> results in <trac>1 Every Child Needs A Laptop</trac>

Could the ticket number be in small italic parens and the description be first and bolded? Would flow better for style...

Tried to make Template:Trac, failed! Style Nazi 10:26, 23 January 2008 (EST)

graphviz test

<graphviz renderer='neato' caption='Hello Neato'> graph G {

  run -- intr;
  intr -- runbl;
  runbl -- run;
  run -- kernel;
  kernel -- zombie;
  kernel -- sleep;
  kernel -- runmem;
  sleep -- swap;
  swap -- runswap;
  runswap -- new;
  runswap -- runmem;
  new -- runmem;
  sleep -- runmem;

} </graphviz>

JS gadgets

Perhaps wikEd editor as a preference gadget would be proper. Katie 02:45, 6 February 2008 (EST)

custom user js

( my User:Katie/shikiwiki.js does not seem to load ... is this a skin-specific disabling? Katie 02:50, 6 February 2008 (EST)

Requesting stringfunctions extension

If you have a link to edit another page, I want Laptop per Child&action=edit&section=new One Laptop per Child to work like One_Laptop_per_Child.

The stringfunctions are all order-n at worst, there are already worse DOS risks.

Homunq 14:34, 27 February 2008 (EST)

I figured out how do everything I need to, except automatically transform lang-xx to xx, and that can be done with a finite number of templates.Homunq 14:56, 29 February 2008 (EST)

A modest proposal: multilingual portals

The translation infrastructure is in relatively good shape, and there are new non-English pages being made regularly. The last frontier is the stuff outside of the content box; the sidebar and top-bar. Since mediawiki architecture is already a bunch of independent processes (php scripts) accessing the database separately, there is no reason some of these couldn't be serving localized side- and top-bars. For instance, es.wiki.laptop.org could have a Spanish homepage, sidebar, and topbar, but still access the same database of wiki content.

From a quick web search, language is controlled by a single variable. As far as I can see, nobody has yet done what I propose, yet it is feasible. The top bar would just mean replacing the variable checks with a simple subroutine, and the sidebar could be an identical multilanguage sidebar with the correct one shown with css.

Homunq 14:56, 29 February 2008 (EST)

Recent Changes

It would be nice if someone would consider the several independent comments made (in various places) on the recent change in the "Recent Changes" link on the sidebar. Cjl's comment and FGrose's comment. Cjl 18:05, 27 April 2008 (EDT)

Allow upload of odg file format

I'd like to upload a couple of odg (open document graphics) files, which are the originals of some png's I have on the wiki here. Would it be possible to enable that format for upload? -- Tarun 11 August 2008 (EST)

Interwiki map?

Do you have a page where things can be added, or a policy on what is added and what isn't? There is a suggestion on this talk page (a minimalist approach) but that's only one comment.

The simplest solution would be to use the meta:interwiki map, and just add very specifically OLPC related sites to that. --Chriswaterguy 05:19, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

checkuser?

http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/CheckUser/

To add.