OpenGuides-Dev May 2007

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Google Sitemaps
by Markus Linke 03 Oct '07

03 Oct '07

Hi, is anyone using google sitemaps with openguides? Thanks, Markus

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[OpenGuides-Dev] OG performance
by Paul Makepeace 20 Jun '07

20 Jun '07

Hi, I don't follow OG development but as host operator a few things are coming up. The machine's load is gradually climbing over time and some of that is OG. Despite a relatively low hit rate on OG it is consuming quite a bit of resource. If OG started taking off it would take the machine down. First up: index.cgi requires 0.35s to perform a `perl -c` syntax check. Any thoughts on putting OG on a mod_perl server? I have mod_perl running here of course and we'd need to coordinate some apache.conf stuff. Second: the supersearch.cgi gulps down CPU, often for seconds at a time. It is a frequent resident of `top` output. This isn't really acceptable. I'm going to request this feature be turned off unless an effective optimisation plan or some other way to reduce its impact here is constructed pretty soon. Sorry about this but it's encroaching on others. Third: I wonder if there's some way to instruct robots not to spider parts of your wiki. This ought to speak for itself: $ grep crawl /var/log/apache/london.openguides.org-access.log | grep 'action=edit' | wc -l 8242 $ Finally: I posted about a DoS and was wondering what the status of a solution was. http://openguides.org/mail/openguides-dev/2004-October/000542.html Cheers, Paul (any overbearing tone unintentional ;-) -- Paul Makepeace .............................. http://paulm.com/inchoate/ "If my elbow was straight, then I'll show oyu mine!" -- http://paulm.com/toys/surrealism/

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Support for spam detection
by Kake L Pugh 07 Jun '07

07 Jun '07

Hello. Following a discussion on #openguides, I've added hooks for spam detection. The way it works is that you specify the name of a local module in your wiki.conf, and OpenGuides will check all edits against this module before agreeing to commit them. The module should provide a method called "looks_like_spam", which will be passed the content and metadata of the edit, and should return true (it's spam) or false (it's not). An example: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- package OpenGuides::Local::KakeSpamDetector; use strict; sub looks_like_spam { my ( $class, %args ) = @_; if ( $args{content} =~ /kitten/i ) { return 1; } } ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Obviously you'll want a more serious check in there :) The neat thing about doing it like this is that your spam detector module can do _anything_ you like, including, for example, logging. Comments? Kake

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Bermondsey Hackfest - 9th/10th June 2007
by Kake L Pugh 05 Jun '07

05 Jun '07

I am pleased to announce that there will be an OpenGuides hackfest in Bermondsey, London, on the weekend of 9th-10th June 2007. In brief: When: noon-10pm Saturday 9th June, noon-5pm Sunday 10th June Where: Kake/Bob/doop house, near Bermondsey station What: Bug triage and bug fixing Who: Programmers and testers The focus of the hackfest will be bug triage and bug fixing. Everyone who can contribute is welcome, both programmers and testers. The venue is Kake's and Bob's and doop's house, a couple of minutes' walk from Bermondsey station, which is one stop east along the Jubilee line from London Bridge station. Please contact me at kake(a)earth.li if you don't already know the address - for those with livejournal accounts there's a friends-locked post with address and directions at http://nou.livejournal.com/67884.html We'll start on the Saturday around noon with introductions and an initial discussion (I'll provide lunch; let me know if you have a dietary restriction that isn't covered by "vegan"). We'll continue until people are tired (no later than 10pm), probably ordering some form of takeaway for dinner. We'll reconvene on Sunday, again at noon, but probably knock off a bit earlier, say 5pm-6pm. Please feel free to come to some or all of this. Any form of structure will be decided as we go along. Kake

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RDF Workshop on dev wiki to move
by Earle Martin 29 May '07

29 May '07

Hey all, I'm now curating the new site WikiRDF.org. I'm planning to move the contents of our wiki page "RDF Workshop" ( http://dev.openguides.org/cgi-bin/trac.fcgi/wiki/RDF%20Workshop) to the wiki on the new site in order to widen up the discussion and hopefully get a new vocab up and running quickly. I'm sure this won't pose any problem for all of you, but I thought it'd be polite to post here first before doing the move. Cheers, Earle. -- Earle Martin http://downlode.org/ http://purl.org/net/earlemartin/

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Re: [OGDev] [domm@cpan.org: YAPC::Europe Hackathon]
by IvorW 25 May '07

25 May '07

> -----Original Message----- > From: openguides-dev-bounces(a)lists.openguides.org > [mailto:openguides-dev-bounces@lists.openguides.org]On Behalf > Of Kake L > Pugh > Sent: 25 May 2007 09:20 > To: openguides-dev(a)lists.openguides.org > Subject: [OGDev] [domm(a)cpan.org: YAPC::Europe Hackathon] > > > We have the YAPC hackathon! > > Yay! Well cool! > So who's coming to it? ME ME ME! Especially as I've proposed a talk on OpenGuides at the conference. Ivor.

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Upgrading Birmingham OpenGuides
by Barbie 25 May '07

25 May '07

Hi folks, After several months of struggling with a painful server, Birmingham Perl Mongers have now bought hosting for our various projects. I've started setting up the box, and now would seem to be a good time to upgrade OpenGuides too. However, the current installation is running 0.49 and as I'd like to use the latest OG code, 0.60. Is there a conversion script to migrate the database between the two? It's currently running under postgresql, and can remain so, or move to MySQL if anyone has a conversion script for that. Following up Kake's post about a SpamDetection module. This closely follows how things work on the current Birmingham site, with the hacked version of the code I made. However, rather than one SpamDetection module, I'd like to see the ability to have several, so that it allows people to plug'n'play with a variety of detection modules. Much in the same way that most email spam engines work. In addition the Birmingham OpenGuides has a rollback feature, which allows an admin to rollback to a specific version, rather than deleting nodes one by one. I haven't seen this as a feature, is it something that would be useful? I don't have the time to patch anything right now, but I could look at this during July. And finally, how painful is the template and CSS migration likely to be? There looks to be a lot of new templates in the latest release! Cheers, Barbie. -- Birmingham Perl Mongers - http://birmingham.pm.org Miss Barbell Productions - http://www.missbarbell.co.uk

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[domm@cpan.org: YAPC::Europe Hackathon]
by Kake L Pugh 25 May '07

25 May '07

We have the YAPC hackathon! Yay! So who's coming to it? Kake ----- Forwarded message from Thomas Klausner <domm(a)cpan.org> ----- From: Thomas Klausner <domm(a)cpan.org> Cc: apw-orga(a)dmail.zsi.at Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 10:01:55 +0200 To: kake(a)earth.li Subject: YAPC::Europe Hackathon Hi! We just finished voting on all of the hackathon proposals for YAPC::Europe, and we're happy to inform you that your proposal OpenGuides was accepted. We now need your confirmation that you will come to Vienna and do the hackathon. Please send a short acknowledgement to vienna2007(a)yapceurope.org until Sunday, 27th May, 12:00 (midday) If we do not get your acknowledgement until then, we will choose one of the rejected hackathon proposals instead! To get the travel and accomodation sponsoring (500 Euros) you will need to first pay by yourself and then issue an invoice directly to the sponsor, providing copies of your tickets/bills. We will help of course help you to set the invoice etc. Looking forward to see you in Vienna, Thomas Klausner -- #!/usr/bin/perl http://domm.plix.at for(ref bless{},just'another'perl'hacker){s-:+-$"-g&&print$_.$/} ----- End forwarded message -----

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Outcomes of RoCoCoCamp
by Earle Martin 23 May '07

23 May '07

Hello all, After some tremendously productive sessions, the legacy of this weekend's conference that affects OpenGuides is that Evan Prodromou of Wikitravel and I will be working together to build a common geodata format for wikis (old news; but we have a much better idea of what's happening now, and we're going to hammer it out very soon, very quickly). This is going to live at a new site, WikiRDF.org, which will also be the new home for both my own Wiki Profile Vocabulary (which is going to feature as a component of a new search engine, Wixee.com - stay tuned for details), and the existing ModWiki specification for RSS 1.0 output for wikis (currently hosted on MeatballWiki). In other news, today I learnt of a site called WikiSpot.org, which is aiming to be a directory of city-wikis. Perhaps our various admins would like to add details for their Guides? Cheers, Earle. -- Earle Martin http://downlode.org/ http://purl.org/net/earlemartin/

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Add a comment to this page
by Kake L Pugh 23 May '07

23 May '07

Hello. People have been asking for a while for a facility to let you just add a small comment to the bottom of a page. I knocked one up on Bob's test install: http://morerandomness.org.uk/openguides/wiki.cgi?action=random See what you think, see if you can break it. All comments welcome. I'd like to add this to the next release. Kake

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