[foodhackingbase] Wiki relaunch

Steffen Beyer steffen at beyer.io
Fri Jan 31 17:12:51 CET 2014


First thing, we are online now with the new wiki, thanks to Christian. 
That's why the spam is rushing in.

And I forgot to change the QuestyCaptcha default questions, so the 
barrier was quite low. To check if this is the only problem, I changed 
the question now to an unsolvable one, temporarily. Ideas for good 
questions, anyone?

As soon as the spam issue is sorted out, I will restore the database to 
an older state -- so please don't do any editing until then.

SSL, I would suggest to get a commercial cert like Alexander offered to 
do. We will hopefully also attract people who are food-savvy, but not 
tech-savvy, so the page access should work without irritation.

Regarding structure and namespaces:

MediaWiki gives three possibilities to structure content pages: 
namespaces (page named like "Recipe:Foo"), categories (page tagged with 
[[Category:Recipe]] in body) und subpages (like subdirectories, page 
named like "Recipe/Foo").

Currently, we are using namespaces for recipes, categories for projects 
and associated groups and also subpages¹.

My idea was to use an extra namespace only for recipes, using 
categories there for an orthogonal dimension, e.g. key ingredients.

So I would tag event pages with [[Category:Event]] at the bottom of the 
page. Maybe additionally laying them out as subpages to have nice URLs 
like /Events/Bar_Event_2014.

Would be great if someone with more (Media)Wiki experience could 
comment on this.

Sincerely,
-- 
Steffen Beyer <steffen at beyer.io>

¹ 
https://fhb.canis.uberspace.de/wiki/Experimental_Incubator/ei_prototype_designing


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