OLPC:Wiki

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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 : prefill a target page with a template, to help people start a new type of page or otherwise give them an easy form within the wiki to fill out.
Examples: see starting a page and User talk:Sj for examples.

gitembed

OLPCgitembedurl

gitembed: You can now embed plaintext documents from git, such as readme files and man pages, config pages, specs, &c, using the <gitembed> extension.
Examples: see Talk:rainbow
Next up: adding a patch to the extension so that it knows how to find the revision # of the document it's transcluding. Sj talk

traclink

olpcTracLink

traclink : You can now embed a link to a trac ticket from the wiki, using <trac>NNNN</trac> or <trac>NNNN description</trac>.
Example : I can describe <trac>2129 adding BlockParty to images</trac> without elaborate linking to the original, and it finds the right page on dev.

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)

I get the arithmetic question when I add external links, even when I am logged in.--Mokurai 19:56, 4 November 2006 (EST)

I get that too even if i'm logged in --EdX 13:45, 16 March 2007 (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)

The wiki is currently using a mysql hack, rather than a real text search eingine. No stemming, etc. See #2162. Volunteer needed. In the meantime, the best bet is to use google, as linked from wiki's search results page. MitchellNCharity 21:39, 28 August 2007 (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)