I’m pretty sure everyone should use a wiki in some capacity.  Wiki of note, lolcat Bible

Presenter points out that wiki’s can be used for everything and they’re easy to setup and easy to manage.  MediaWiki has a ton of extensions built for it and a huge user community thus making it useful.  MediaWiki’s templating engine is quite powerful.  I did not know that. 

On to WikiSpam…we hates it.  Setting up logins work but not entirely well.  Makes it hard for users to fix things on your very public wiki.  If people aren’t editing your wiki, you don’t have a wiki.  Captcha is the best way to prevent spambots from editing your page.  reCaptcha is the shit.  I use reCaptcha and it basically pulls words from a database that is populated by an org that is scanning old texts.  If the scanner they use can’t decipher the text it goes into the database.  reCaptcha gets people to recognize the word and send it back to help complete the text.  Excellent project, really.

A good overview of MediaWiki overall.

Tags: barcamp, barcampla, barcampla5, bcla5, session, mediawiki

Sunday, March 2nd, 2008 @ 2:07 pm Uncategorized
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