Re: [glob2-devel] Hosting, wiki and call for help

[Martin Voelkle]

Hello

> As I posted yesterday, thanks to Kyle we now have a new hosting place for
> glob2, accessible from http://globulation2.org
>
> We now have to move things from glob2.ysagoon.com to globulation2.org
> We actually use PmWiki (wiki) and phpbb (forum). There is two drawbacks:
> PmWiki is not good at all for managing users (admins have to edit config file
> each time) and there is two different logins, one for the wiki one for the
> forum.
>
> Yesterday, I was looking for a unified system and I found tikiwiki
> (http://tikiwiki.org). But I have never tested it.
>
> What do the actual wiki contributors think of using TikiWiki? Does anyone
> knows/has time to look if it would be easy to semi-automatically import
> actual wiki content into TikiWiki? Does anyone would like to volunteer for
> working on this transition?
>
> At the look level, it would also be nice to see if TikiWiki support clean and
> simples pages (but I'm quite sure it does), because it's important to have a
> easy to you, nicely looking game web site and not a overloaded portalish
> site.

TikiWiki is an overloaded portalish piece of software (if I remember
well, it's more thant 80Mb unpacked).

I think I didn't explain myself well about the forum: IMHO, a plain
old wiki can replace the forum. mediawiki talk pages are meant to
discuss about a page, while forum posts are often/mostly not related
to pages. But forum posts can be done in normal wiki pages, using
mediawiki's talk pages formatting conventions for replies.

What the wiki needs for this is sections: a main one, a dev one, a
forum one, etc. I don't think MediaWiki has these, but I might be
wrong. It's not the same thing as categories, because new pages should
get tagged automatically.

> Note that as Kyle's computer does not have infinite bandwidth with the
> Internet, files (releases, ...) will be uploaded on savannah. If we add more
> media content (downloadable maps, etc...) we'll have to find some place to
> host them, but this can be any ftp anywhere.

Use savannah's web area. The drawback is that you have to upload using cvs.

Martin