Dear Wiki list member, There is a consensus to move the Wiki Discussion List to a new place. Thanks everybody for the feedback. One offer was to host the list...
Peter Thoeny
peter.thoeny@xxx.xxxx
Aug 21, 1999 9:36 am
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Dear Wiki list member, There is a consensus to move the Wiki Discussion List to a new place. Thanks everybody for the feedback. One offer was to host the list...
bobr@xxxx.xxxx.xxx
Aug 21, 1999 10:20 am
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Christophe Vermeulen
christophe.vermeulen@...
Aug 23, 1999 3:05 pm
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... I checked both. Both are feature packed. I thought that the service agreement of ONElist was more appropriate then eGroups. Snippet from...
Peter Thoeny
Peter.Thoeny@xxxxxxxx...
Aug 24, 1999 2:31 am
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Hi, lets start using our WikiForum for a technical Wiki- related topic - authentication and web based registration. Authentication of users is accomplished by...
Peter Thoeny
peter.thoeny@xxx.xxxx
Aug 24, 1999 7:11 am
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I like the idea, but I think (a minimum of) Security requires even more than that : * What is a user comes back and refills the form ? * This would allow...
Christophe Vermeulen
christophe.vermeulen@...
Aug 24, 1999 8:16 am
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I got problems with the OneList site, as it seems it contacts a bad advertising site (something.imgis.com). I finally got something by disabling Javascript,...
Christophe Vermeulen
christophe.vermeulen@...
Aug 24, 1999 9:30 am
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... suid/sgid the script (perl will need to be compiled to allow this) or use a c wrapper to do the userid switch. another catch is that users must relogin...
Ralph Mellor
ralph@xxxx.xxxx
Aug 24, 1999 2:04 pm
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... I didn't bother with the search since source to htpasswd comes with Apache in the support dir. I just changed it to allow the password to come from an...
bobr@xxxx.xxxx.xxx
Aug 24, 1999 4:37 pm
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... TWiki's "register" script checks for that. ... It does send a confirmation to the user and also BCCs the WikiMaster. ... Yes, you are correct. I was...
Peter Thoeny
Peter.Thoeny@xxxxxxxx...
Aug 24, 1999 10:19 pm
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... I understand. You are also using an old htpasswd like I did back then. For grins I went and looked - the current version of htpasswd from apache 1.3.9...
Bob_Racko
bobr@xxxx.xxxx.xxxx
Aug 25, 1999 9:28 am
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... that sounds like an invitation enough. ok, here we go. to change a private key password system into a one way password/authentication system you use the...
Bob_Racko
bobr@xxxx.xxxx.xxxx
Aug 25, 1999 9:29 am
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... funny you should say that. I have had commercial sites going in the opposite direction that complain that the browser hangs onto the password for too long....
Bob_Racko
bobr@xxxx.xxxx.xxxx
Aug 25, 1999 11:35 am
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... bob, as ever, got it right on the money. (my original comment was way overstated.) -- Ralph Mellor: http://www.dimp.com/diipeople.html 615.292.2917 x2 ...
Ralph Mellor
ralph@xxxx.xxxx
Aug 25, 1999 6:33 pm
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Hi all I really hate editing stuff in a <textarea>. So I copy everything to my editor (Vim), and work there. (Using Netscape 4.5 on W95 I can't even Ctrl-A to...
Jean Jordaan
rgo_anas@...
Sep 1, 1999 3:37 pm
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Hello, I've been exploring ways to reduce the load large wiki webs places on a server. Since viewing wiki pages is by far the most common activity we ...
Iain Shigeoka
iainshigeoka@xxxxx.xxxx
Sep 1, 1999 4:01 pm
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I fail to see the problem with caching the normal pages, and create the WikiName? pages on the fly. Even if the viewing of the later pages will take a little...
Bengt Baverman
bengt.baverman@x.xxxx...
Sep 1, 1999 6:25 pm
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Hello, I thought that readers of this list may find this story of our recent Wiki "crisis" informative. Breifly, in early August, the JOSWiki using TWiki ran...
Iain Shigeoka
iainshigeoka@xxxxx.xxxx
Sep 1, 1999 7:02 pm
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Yes, caching the pages should speed up things a bunch. I guess the question is, if WikiName? links versus normal WikiName links (with the link pointed to a...
Iain Shigeoka
iainshigeoka@xxxxx.xxxx
Sep 1, 1999 7:14 pm
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Jean, As you point out, <textarea> is fine for simple edits, but you can't do a search & replace or call macros e.t.c., like external editors of choice do...
Peter Thoeny
Peter.Thoeny@xxxxxxxx...
Sep 1, 1999 10:24 pm
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For me, visually distinguishing between existing pages and non existing ones is an essential UI feature. As an author you know upfront if you created all pages...
Peter Thoeny
Peter.Thoeny@xxxxxxxx...
Sep 1, 1999 10:54 pm
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Iain, thanks for letting us know the insights and your conclusions, very enlightening. So, a robots that behaved badly was the problem. I noticed from the...
Peter Thoeny
Peter.Thoeny@xxxxxxxx...
Sep 1, 1999 11:28 pm
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... The question is also, In which occasions would you do that ? Sure, aggregating pages for edition could allow to be more productive, but it's surely going...
Christophe Vermeulen
christophe.vermeulen@...
Sep 2, 1999 9:52 am
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... Definitely ... There is already a WikiClone that does it (DolphinWiki), without adding the complexity of a link info file. It justs makes a reverse search...
Christophe Vermeulen
christophe.vermeulen@...
Sep 2, 1999 10:05 am
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Peter, ... Well, if versioning was in place on the wiki, the pages in question, if edited by various persons, would just gain some history. This isn't ideal...
Jean Jordaan
rgo_anas@...
Sep 2, 1999 4:44 pm
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... Versioning (using RCS, is in place in my wiki since November last year) But RCS doesn't provide automatic merge of changes. I think CVS does, but it is not...
Christophe Vermeulen
christophe.vermeulen@...
Sep 3, 1999 10:55 am
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This thread started in the FeatureIdeaEnteringMultiplePages thread. I'll start by including some background info, that you may correct on the archive at...
Christophe Vermeulen
christophe.vermeulen@...
Sep 3, 1999 11:48 am
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... Pretty easy indeed to put a hidden "revisiongot" var in the form. ... I think it should be a bit more complicated : Wiki works with (at least) two scripts...
Christophe Vermeulen
christophe.vermeulen@...
Sep 3, 1999 12:43 pm
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I am starting a new topic, this one started as WikiForumWikiNameLinkOpinions ( [WikiForum] WikiName link opinions ) ... Very interesting idea. Some details...
Peter Thoeny
Peter.Thoeny@xxxxxxxx...
Sep 3, 1999 9:28 pm
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... Friends -- I am frequently hit by "spider" programs. These are popular in locals where internet access is unreliable or expensive. A spider attempts to...
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