How should we (as a community) handle MediaWiki

surreality

I would still have the DPL extension, even with Semantic Mediawiki, really. (Specifically, the third one. It seems to behave itself most reliably -- there are THREE of the buggers listed in their extension vault.)

It has a few output format options that are, well, they're useful and pretty and alternate outputs can be customized from the same dataset in ways that make me happy.

(It's also how I'm working up that wiki-side CG script thing I keep mentioning. The actual page? Is a reference page full of notes about the stats in addition to a character sheet to aid in chargen and specific reference. There's an alternate 'sheet only' pretty output format for the character page, and finally a text only CG output script (currently staff-side setting from the input players put into the wiki form) That's something we probably don't want to lose and I really like how DPL handles it.)

Ninjakitten

@Thenomain
...which is why I mentioned really not having had problems even without one.

People messing with pages they oughtn't hasn't been an issue once we banished the bots, and would be easily rolled back if it did, so I don't feel a need to have stricter/more ACLs before allowing players to just make their own accounts. I wouldn't hate HAVING more ACLs, but for me the problems of "annoying players by delaying them" and "making even more work for staff" currently outweigh the potential problem of "a non-spammer making bad changes."

surreality

@Thenomain I do think something that could be hooked into a command on the game would be fantastic, so consider that request seconded.

Griatch

Interesting thread. Out of curiosity l looked into using Django with mediawiki and promptly found this: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/django-semantic-mediawiki/0.1 which is basically a direct integration of Django's (and thus Evennias) database with the mediawiki API. I've not tested it, but it might be an interesting project for an Evennia user interested in modifying and accessing wiki data directly from in-game (make a wiki page for your character and see it in-game, the wiki page updating as things happen to the char in-game ... auto-post logs, sync avatar images to show in the web client etc etc...)
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Griatch

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@Griatch said in How should we (as a community) handle MediaWiki:

Interesting thread. Out of curiosity l looked into using Django with mediawiki and promptly found this: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/django-semantic-mediawiki/0.1 which is basically a direct integration of Django's (and thus Evennias) database with the mediawiki API. I've not tested it, but it might be an interesting project for an Evennia user interested in modifying and accessing wiki data directly from in-game (make a wiki page for your character and see it in-game, the wiki page updating as things happen to the char in-game ... auto-post logs, sync avatar images to show in the web client etc etc...)
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Griatch

Orly. Time to point that out to Tehom.