Lyceum wiki

The Lyceum wiki has been launched. Check it out. I just threw up a vanilla MediaWiki installation and made login required (mostly to avoid spam, but hey, a tad bit of accountability doesn’t hurt anyway). If there are any MediaWiki masters out there with some advice for how I should tweak my installation, your advice would be appreciated.

If anyone has any stellar vision for the wiki’s use or structure, or you just want to throw up some content, by all means go for it! Otherwise, I’ll gradualy begin to populate it with information and hopefully a useful structure will emerge.

Eventually we may create some sort of common login namespace between the wiki and trac. Hopefully keeping login optional on trac. Really I would like to have login optional on both the wiki and trac, but we will need a long-term spam solution on both systems.


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You wrote: “Eventually we may create some sort of common login namespace between the wiki and trac.”

And that would be a great thing — make a SSO API.

I’d like to suggest it be on the roadmap.

Why not use foreign keys and triggers in the backend to keep different tables sync’d and populated? This seems unpopular in the php world? But it’s well supported in the ever-popular MySQL now.

It would seem easier to do that and use output buffering to set various cookies for the login(s). Disparate projects could be easily integrated thusly…

Is there any way you can add a forum to this site?

Also, is there any instructions on making a portal page? I see portal.php and it gives some good examples.

I do have questions about making a portal page, but I feel a forum would be a more appropriate place.

I second having a forum. I’d be happy to help set it up and run it if you’d like.

It’d be a lot easier to keep track of the conversations than it currently is on the mailing list.

Btw, I made an initial edit on the wiki to get it started. Mostly based on the WP codex, but it should help get the documentation started.

Initially I was thinking maybe to avoid diluting the discussions amongst too many media, but it seems like folks would use forums more than the mailing list?

Which forum software do y’all recommend?

Any of the major php boards are fine, phpbb is a pretty good one.

Thinking about forum engine integrating into one of my WP installs, I found this:
http://bloghelper.is-there.net/integrating-a-forum-with-wordpress/



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