OpenGuides-Dev April 2006

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If you don't do something right away...
by Earle Martin 21 Apr '06

21 Apr '06

...someone else does it. http://ukrailways.wikia.com/ (Ivor and I discussed an "Open Guide to British Railways" months and months ago.) -- Earle Martin http://downlode.org/ http://purl.org/net/earlemartin/

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News of the neighbors
by Earle Martin 20 Apr '06

20 Apr '06

WikiTravel and World66 (which was originally called Capitan Cook, as you may remember) got bought up by the same company. http://wikitravel.org/en/Wikitravel:20_April_2006 Summary: "unobtrusive ads" and they'll still be CC-licensed. I for one wish them well in their new endeavor. -- Earle Martin http://downlode.org/ http://purl.org/net/earlemartin/

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Killing Spam With SQL
by Christopher Schmidt 20 Apr '06

20 Apr '06

A Series Of SQL Queries: DELETE content FROM content,metadata WHERE content.version=metadata.version and content.name=metadata.node and metadata_type='comment' and metadata_value='Some grammatical corrections' DELETE node FROM node,metadata WHERE node.version=metadata.version and node.name=metadata.node and metadata_type='comment' and metadata_value='Some grammatical corrections' DELETE metadata FROM metadata,metadata as metadata2 WHERE metadata.version=metadata2.version and metadata.node=metadata2.node and metadata2.metadata_type='comment' and metadata2.metadata_value='Some grammatical corrections' This, for me, seems to have deleted the "Some grammatical corrections" spam I just got on the Open Guide to Boston. Someone more experienced with SQL taking a look at these would be much appreciated. Of course, it's probably better to do this via $wiki->fetch_node, delete_node, etc. but I've never been one for doing things the right way -- I prefer the quick way. -- Christopher Schmidt Web Developer

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Active bugs and version numbers
by Earle Martin 11 Apr '06

11 Apr '06

Looking at http://dev.openguides.org/report/2, should all existing bugs have their version number set to "svn"? Since we don't have any branches going on at present. Talking of version numbers - http://openguides.org/testing/index.cgi?action=about Code for this is committed. -- Earle Martin http://downlode.org/ http://purl.org/net/earlemartin/

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The website gets a spring cleaning
by Earle Martin 10 Apr '06

10 Apr '06

Okay, so what started out as a joke turned out to be the beginning of a torrid love affair between me and Inkscape. As a result, say hi to the new look of http://openguides.org/ . -- Earle Martin http://downlode.org/ http://purl.org/net/earlemartin/

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RE: [OGDev] Two Point Oh
by M.B.Gaved 10 Apr '06

10 Apr '06

MyOpenguidr even? ;-) nice logo, Earle. Mark Mark Gaved Knowledge Media Institute The Open University Walton Hall Milton Keynes, UK MK7 6AA http://kmi.open.ac.uk/people/mark -----Original Message----- From: openguides-dev-bounces(a)openguides.org on behalf of Adam Auden Sent: Mon 4/10/2006 6:30 AM To: OpenGuides software developers' list Subject: Re: [OGDev] Two Point Oh On 4/10/06, Earle Martin <openguides(a)downlode.org> wrote: > I couldn't resist. > > http://openguides.org/img/openguides-web20.png Openguidr perhaps? :) -- Adam Auden - UNIX Metal Geek whois bimble.net -- OpenGuides-Dev mailing list - OpenGuides-Dev(a)openguides.org http://openguides.org/mm/listinfo/openguides-dev

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Two Point Oh
by Earle Martin 10 Apr '06

10 Apr '06

I couldn't resist. http://openguides.org/img/openguides-web20.png :) -- Earle Martin http://downlode.org/ http://purl.org/net/earlemartin/

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Worldwide Wifi Guide
by Christopher Schmidt 08 Apr '06

08 Apr '06

JibberJim, in #swhack[1], was wondering how easy it would be to create a guide that aggregated all the locations with decent wifi into one place. (seeAlso blog entry[2] on same topic.) OpenGuides is a good software solution to this, given a few tweaks: Specifically, tweaking the fields such that there is a city (state in some cases) and country metadata field. After that, an aggregator would need to be built, to allow for moving the data that already exists in some categories on other guides (wifi, free wifi) into the 'wifi' guide. Implementation details are being handwaved here, in part because I'm not the biggest master of the code -- what do other people think about this? I think ivorw has the best knowledge of a mirroring process, I know how to add additional metadata fields (although I'm not convinced I know the *best* way to do it, just *a* way), and I'm sure that 'we' as the OpenGuides team would be willing to participate in adminiship of such a guide. This would also be a good oppourtunity to test our aggregation ability for the purposes of building an interface at OpenGuides.org that allows people to search worldwide for something, rather than just in each guide, something that I think has been discussed before. Anyone else interested in this project? [1] http://swhack.com/logs/2006-04-08#T12-29-37 [2] http://jibbering.com/blog/?p=505 -- Christopher Schmidt Web Developer

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Category Dropdown Selection
by Christopher Schmidt 07 Apr '06

07 Apr '06

Boston uses a dropdown to allow you to select from existing categories/locales. I do this via a CGI::Wiki::Plugin module (attached: summariser.pm) and some changes to wiki.cgi (also attached, although that patch has some cruft.) The categories are then iterated in the edit_form.tt template to create a dropdown box with some javascript. I'm not sure what the best way to do this is, but I'd like to see it pulled into the core, because more than one person has asked for it, and it'll be one less thing for me to maintain on my own. What's a better way to do this? Anyone have any suggestions? -- Christopher Schmidt Web Developer

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boston.openguides.org macros
by Christopher Schmidt 07 Apr '06

07 Apr '06

The Boston Guide has a few macros that aren't in the general distribution. The most interesting of these is a macro to create links to Flickr images from [[Image:FlickrID]] links. It requires some mucking with configuration to set up a flickr key and flickr secret -- these come from Flickr when you sign up for an API key. The diff between svn and boston's OpenGuides::Utils are attached. These are things that I will attempt to eventually clean up and get into the main tree, but right now they're just hacks, and may cause problems. No warranty or support, etc. etc., but if you want help getting something working, you can reply on-list or privately and I'll try and help you out. (Might even motivate me to clean up my code.) -- Christopher Schmidt Web Developer

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