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

[dan blah]

Barry Isralewitz wrote:
> 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
> 
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*sigh*
hey barry,
i am going to give you a mysql database and a username and password for
that database because its easiest for me.  you can choose to put a wiki
on it or whatever you want.
--
Daniel