OpenGuides-Dev March 2007

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Open source web design
by Kake L Pugh 24 Mar '07

24 Mar '07

Hello. Those of you who've been on #openguides over the past few days will know that I've been playing with stuff from http://www.oswd.org/ (Open Source Web Design). I found a nice design, and adapted it for OpenGuides. You can see it in action at http://london.randomness.org.uk/ Anyone else who wants their guide to look a little more fashionable may be interested in having a poke around there as well. You may need to do a bit of digging to find something you like, but there's some very nice stuff there, and (I think) it's all licensed under Creative Commons. Kake

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Google Analytics
by Kake L Pugh 22 Mar '07

22 Mar '07

Bob recently added Google Analytics stuff to RGL, and I thought it might be a good idea to roll this back into the main distro. Basically, you get a little script that you add towards the end of a web page: <script src="http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript"> _uacct = "[your personal key here]"; urchinTracker(); </script> and that lets Google collect stats on your visitors; you can then log into your Google account to view the reports. Obviously I would have this as a config option, defaulting to "off". Any objections to me adding this? Would anyone else find it useful? Kake

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A fix for the map links
by Kake L Pugh 20 Mar '07

20 Mar '07

Hello. I noticed that the "Link to this page" link on the map-style indexes doesn't keep track of all parameters; it doesn't remember the map type (satellite, hybrid, or normal), and if you've zoomed or scrolled the map at all then it forgets the category/locale that you were indexing. I attach a fix - there are patches to both OpenGuides.pm and templates/map_index.tt You'll end up with URLs looking something like: http://london.randomness.org.uk/wiki.cgi?action=index;format=map;long=-0.05… Kake

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Node images and copyright.
by Kake L Pugh 18 Mar '07

18 Mar '07

Bob has a patch in Trac for adding copyright notices and links to licences for node images: http://dev.openguides.org/ticket/179 You can see it in action here: http://london.randomness.org.uk/wiki.cgi?Angel,_SE16_4NB I'm going to be adding this to svn in some form, but it's been pointed out on Flickr that the copyright symbol may not be the best one to use for Creative Commons licensed images: http://flickr.com/photos/skuds/91099796/#comment72157594585111841 What do people think? Kake

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What are people working on?
by Kake L Pugh 16 Mar '07

16 Mar '07

Hello. As people may have noticed, I've been doing some OpenGuides hacking recently. I've got a few ideas for more things I might like to do, but I've been holding off slightly since (a) I don't understand how commit access etc works these days, and (b) I have this sort of vision in my head of loads of you all beavering away on stuff, and I didn't want to step on toes or clash with someone else's work. However, I'm not sure how true (b) is, so I was wondering, if people have a moment, could they write a quick update for the mailing list on what (if anything) they're working on at the moment? I'm sure this would be of interest to people other than me, as well. (And if _nobody_ is currently working on anything, this may well prove an incentive for me to get my finger out!) Kake

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Re: [OGDev] how do OGs deal with "content wars"?
by IvorW 15 Mar '07

15 Mar '07

> -----Original Message----- > From: openguides-dev-bounces(a)lists.openguides.org > [mailto:openguides-dev-bounces@lists.openguides.org]On Behalf Of > M.B.Gaved > Sent: 15 March 2007 11:41 > To: openguides-dev(a)lists.openguides.org > Subject: [OGDev] how do OGs deal with "content wars"? > > > Hi all > > a social rather than technical question for you all. Have you > had any experience of "content wars"? > It looks like the Milton Keynes Open Guide is having a bit of > an evolving battle between two taxi companies! > > Check out these two entries: > http://miltonkeynes.openguides.org/?Speedline_Taxis > http://miltonkeynes.openguides.org/?Cybernet_Cars%2C_Old_Stratford > > Tom Heath has done a gracious tidy up in the first two > postings but it looks like there's a bit of company sniping > going on here! > > Have you guys ever faced this? how have you dealt with it? > > look forward to hearing your thoughts > > Mark > > Upgrade to 0.57 and turn moderation on on the affected pages. I've done this in London, and it was very effective. Moderation can be used for moderation, not just spamicide. Ivor.

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how do OGs deal with "content wars"?
by M.B.Gaved 15 Mar '07

15 Mar '07

Hi all a social rather than technical question for you all. Have you had any experience of "content wars"? It looks like the Milton Keynes Open Guide is having a bit of an evolving battle between two taxi companies! Check out these two entries: http://miltonkeynes.openguides.org/?Speedline_Taxis http://miltonkeynes.openguides.org/?Cybernet_Cars%2C_Old_Stratford Tom Heath has done a gracious tidy up in the first two postings but it looks like there's a bit of company sniping going on here! Have you guys ever faced this? how have you dealt with it? look forward to hearing your thoughts Mark

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*poke*
by Kake L Pugh 11 Mar '07

11 Mar '07

Hello, is this thing on? Kake

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Edit conflict fixes.
by Kake L Pugh 11 Mar '07

11 Mar '07

Hello. I just made a commit to svn that should fix the issues people have been seeing with edit conflicts - specifically, I got rid of edit_conflict.tt and added stuff to edit_form.tt to handle edit conflicts. In the process, I moved some more stuff from wiki.cgi to OpenGuides.pm. The issues fixed with this are: - ticket #48 (Edit conflict page erroneously converts lat/lon to os_x, os_y) - ticket #173 (edit conflict form doesn't let you edit everything) If any of you have test guides running on svn versions, it would be great if you could play around with this and see if I introduced any new bugs. Note that because of the changes to wiki.cgi, it's not sufficient just to 'use lib' and point it at your checked out directory; you'll have to merge in changes to your cgi script too (and templates, if you don't already have them pointing at the checked out copies). Kake

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Call For Papers: WikiSym and WikiMania 2007
by M.B.Gaved 04 Mar '07

04 Mar '07

Hi all WikiSym and WikiMania 2007 both have a call out for papers/participation. WikiSym will be in Montreal, and WikiMania in Taipei. http://www.wikisym.org/ws2007/ http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page There seemed to be a good bit of interest in the Open Guides at WikiSym06 when I presented a paper from the Milton Keynes perspective. all the best Mark (Open Guide to Milton Keynes - heck I bet you guys didn't think we'd find 650 locations to write about in MK, even if some of them are a bit random :-) ) Mark Gaved Knowledge Media Institute The Open University Walton Hall Milton Keynes, UK MK7 6AA http://kmi.open.ac.uk/people/mark

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