[UCIMC-Tech] Re: make a members-only view section of UCIMC's wiki

[Barry Isralewitz]

Hello,

On Jun 26, 2007, at 7:47 PM, dvv wrote:

> Sascha Meinrath wrote:
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>> Hi Barry,
>>
>> I've forwarded your e-mail to the IMC-Tech group since I don't  
>> handle mediawiki
>> permissions anymore.  I'm hoping someone on this list can help you  
>> out.
>>
>> - --Sascha
>>
>> Barry Isralewitz wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Sascha,
>>>
>>> Hope I'm writing to the correct person about this:
>>>
>>> Can thebikeproject have a members-only-readable area of UCIMC's  
>>> wiki? I suppose we would do whatever Finance does to make the  
>>> following work:
>>> http://www.ucimc.org/wiki/index.php/Finance/Private
>>>
>>>  I guess this  is related to Mediawiki "group rights:.
>>> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:User_rights
>>>
>>> On the chance that you (or the person your forward the mail to)  
>>> wants to
>>> do this right away, I'll suggest the group name "bikeproj" (any name
>>> that is not "bike" would be fine, to avoid confusion between our  
>>> Unix
>>> group and wiki group).
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Barry
>>> -- 
>>>
>>
> this wiki is for the u-c imc and its working groups.  i can set you  
> up with a user/pass and database for you to setup your own wiki if  
> you would like.


	The Bike Project is currently a subsidiary entity of UC-IMC but is  
not a "Working Group".  At last definition, "a fiscally sponsored  
project of the Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center Foundation"   
If this is sufficient standing to secure us some wiki-group-member- 
only-readable pages (any non-'bot welcome to join the wiki group), I  
respond:
	Excellent; let's add pages as done for Finance, along the lines I  
suggest above.  Note these are planned to be low-to-medium-use pages  
for 5-50 people to use for editing meeting agendas, hashing out  
policy documents, and similar, so I do not forsee much of  a resource  
burden.
	
           If The Bike Project's current standing in UC-IMC is not  
sufficient to get us some
wiki-group-member-only-readable pages then I respond:
	thanks for the offer of user/pass and database!  Some questions -- a  
user/pass for which resource do you mean, dvv?  I  have an account,  
barryi, on zeco.chambana.net  which I use for web site admin.   As to  
database, do you mean some separate database that can run a  
completely separated wiki from http://www.ucimc.org/wiki/, but one  
that still takes advantage of the MediaWiki install / mysql/postgres   
server instances?  Do you mean something similar to this:

"Reusing the same code for multiple Wikis"
'Sometimes you may need to install separate wikis ...in the same  
server. '
http://just-tech.blogspot.com/2007/01/mediawiki-reusing-same-code- 
for.html

?

Be happy to follow any guidelines you have set, but want to also keep  
in mind avoiding unnecessary duplication of  admin effort (my own,  
chambana.net)  and/or unnecessary  burden on chambana.net machine  
resources.
	

	Cheers,

	Barry

-- 
Barry Isralewitz   Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group, UIUC
Beckman 3043   Office Phone: (217) 244-1612  Home Phone: (217) 337-6364
email: barryi at ks.uiuc.edu      http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~barryi




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