OLPC:Wiki
This is a wiki page about this editable site. We are currently running MediaWiki 1.10.0. Please leave notes about your wiki experiences, and comments or suggestions about this wiki, here. For more on children using wikis, see wikis for children.
For more about wikis, see Ward Cunningham's lovely rundown of the principles he followed when developing the first wiki.
Plugins and extensions
youtube
- Youtube and Google Video : Put a video-id between youtube and gvideo tags and it should do the right thing.
inputbox
- inputbox : see User talk:Sj for an example
gitembed
- gitembed: You can now embed plaintext documents from git, such as readme files and man pages, config pages, specs, &c, using the
gitembed
extension. see rainbow for an example.
Suggestions and comments
Losing summaries
I find that when I edit pages and add links, the process of asking me an arithmetic question frequently discards the summary that I entered, so I have to scroll down and enter it again. I haven't been able to determine a pattern to when this happens.--Mokurai
- Does it ask you an arithmetic question when you are logged in? It is only supposed to ask when the edits are anonymous (part of the Mediawiki anti-spam measures). --Walter 08:25, 22 October 2006 (EDT)
Searching for "FORTH"
The Wiki Search function does not find the word "forth" on any page or page title. The Go function correctly goes to the page entitled "FORTH". My problem is that I have to use Google to search for references to the FORTH programming language in order to make them into links, now that I have created a FORTH page.
forth site:wiki.laptop.org
--Mokurai 01:55, 22 October 2006 (EDT)
Make wiki Search CasE INsensitive
We will all be better served if both Go and Search are not sensitive to case. Google works that way, so practically every participant here will be LESS surprised if case is ignored. How can this objective be pursued?
- Nitpicker 19:06, 9 December 2006 (EST)