To do list

From Eureka

Perhaps a central to do list would be helpful. Here's a start. I realise that Talk:Main Page has been serving as a to do list, but by now it's a little hard to look at it and work out what one could contribute! --Scott 19:56, 16 August 2007 (EDT)

To do list

• As always, the first item is to write the rest of the list. :-)

Technical things

• Upgrade to SemanticMediawiki 0.7 (requires PHP5, see below)
• Make PHP5 available, so we can upgrade to SemanticMediawiki 0.7
  • It's not simply a matter of upgrading to PHP5, because Blake Stacey is hosting, and he needs PHP4 for other things on his server.
  • One possibility would be to move to a different host?
    • John Baez suggested UCR, with many caveats.
    • There's also http://katlas.org/ -- we host a bunch of math-related wikis, and have late versions of most things already set up.
    • Virtualise! Create a virtual machine, and host everything there. With this, we could stay hosted by Blake, but install whatever software is required for our particular needs. Even better, it makes moving to other hosting trivial later on. If this really takes off we will want better hosting. --Scott 19:45, 16 August 2007 (EDT)
• Establish a regular backup routine.
  • We should write some scripts that daily dump the SQL database, as well as the mediawiki installation directory. Both of these should be somewhere web-accessible, and a remote script should regularly download them.
  • I've written equivalent scripts for http://katlas.org/, the Knot Atlas wiki, and would be happy to contribute these or set them up. --Scott 19:45, 16 August 2007 (EDT)

• We should fix the URLs for the wiki -- there's no reason for 'index.php' to appear in there, and many reasons not to. I know how to do this, but it requires editting LocalSettings.php in the mediawiki installation. --Scott 19:45, 16 August 2007 (EDT)

Wiki things requiring a 'sysop'

• Try to move as much of the formatting on the front page into CSS as possible. At the moment, the front page source is unreadable.

You're right - I'll give it a go. Any suggestions for good front-page-wiki-CSS-files? --Brucebartlett 19:39, 26 August 2007 (EDT)

Unfortunately for some weird reason at the moment user CSS files don't get processed; the same goes for javascript, though Blake is working on trying to fix this. But I can try add some CSS files to the main page, using Firefox web developer to preview them. --Brucebartlett 09:44, 27 August 2007 (EDT)

I think I've got user CSS working (there was a case-sensitivity issue buried deep within MediaWiki). Blake Stacey 12:14, 27 August 2007 (EDT)

Hooray! Thanks Blake. You got user javascript working too. I installed collapsible navboxes site-wide, they're in the Mediawiki:Monobook.js file. Here's a collapsible javascript-powered box:

 <div class="NavFrame">
  <div class="NavHead">[... This is the title of the hidden content ...]</div>
  <div class="NavContent" style="display:none;">
    [... This content is initially hidden ...]
  </div>
 </div> 

   [... This content is initially hidden ...]

I'm going to try and install these into the Journal Info template.

--Brucebartlett 14:49, 27 August 2007 (EDT)

Turning the AMS data into charts

Volunteers are needed to turn the AMS data into charts. The data will of course also be stored in text format too.

If Eureka contributors don't like this idea... speak up quick!

This can be done in your own time. When you uploaded the image to Eureka it will automatically start displaying on the journal's page... once we've sorted the Journal Info template out. --Brucebartlett 19:34, 31 August 2007 (EDT)