[Xerte] Wiki

Thu Apr 30 10:45:02 BST 2009

I don't expect the mailing list to dissapear. I see the wiki as being
the plae for docs / examples / info / etc, whilst this list does what it
always has done,

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Alistair
McNaught
Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2009 10:33 AM
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: RE: [Xerte] Wiki

Replying to these out of sequence as I catch up fro a couple of days on
the road.

I like the idea of the parallel routes - the discussion list v wiki. I
think I had probably been worrying that the wiki would replace all as
the centre of the Xerte universe but if it is the distillation of the
best bits of the lists it would work for all levels of contributor.

I agree that editing an existing entry is easy but creating brand new
ones and doing slightly more sophisticated stuff like inserting images
is more daunting to Wiki newbies. In some respects though it might act
as a bit of a quality control filter. 

A

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Mark
Tomlinson
Sent: 29 April 2009 09:48
To: 'Xerte discussion list'
Subject: RE: [Xerte] Wiki

Trusted contributors is possible to implement if the general consensus
is that is what is required.  If someone 'edits / defaces' the content
there, it is not lost as each page change is archived.  It is merely an
annoyance.

I think this discussion list covers your needs under your point 2 and I
don't see a Wiki replacing this.  I see the Wiki as supplementary and
holding such things as documentation and 'best practice examples' using
certain techniques etc.

When you edit a page in the wiki, there are buttons at the top of the
editor that insert the correct syntax for you, so you don't have to
remember the 'obscure code convention'

Regards

Mark

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Alistair
McNaught
Sent: 29 April 2009 09:30
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: RE: [Xerte] Wiki

Useful info Mark - many thanks.

I can look into this but not able to for a couple of days..

That still leaves the issues about audience and trusted contributors to
be considered..

A

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Mark
Tomlinson
Sent: 29 April 2009 09:05
To: 'Xerte discussion list'
Subject: RE: [Xerte] Wiki

Apparently Mediawiki is :  "almost accessible for blind users"

http://blind.wikia.com/wiki/Mediawiki_and_Accessibility

The main issue I believe centres around the use of Captcha.  The one I
integrated does not use the visual verification method, but asks the
user to solve a simple maths problem.  I would assume that a screen
reader could read this, but I have not tested it.

Mark

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Alistair
McNaught
Sent: 28 April 2009 21:09
To: Julian Tenney; ronm at mitchellmedia.co.uk; Xerte discussion list
Subject: RE: [Xerte] Wiki

Hi all

Just catching up with this thread. 

I agree that a collaborative area for creating support materials is a
great idea but I think we ought to exercise some caution before making
any single place the centre of the universe J

My main concerns are

1)      Vandalism /spamming etc. We love Xerte but if I was a commercial
developer making a tidy income from selling overpriced underfeatured
software I might not love the threat Xerte provided to my income. I
suggest that some sort of 'trusted status' should be applied for access
to the main support materials.

2)      Horses for courses - MediaWiki is fine and dandy for coders but
if we wanted to set up an area where teaching practitioners could share
ideas, applications, examples, simple questions etc we'd need a much
simpler system. I'm an experienced Tiddlywiki user but looking at the
help pages on formatting and conventions made me think... I can't be
bothered... I haven't got time to remember some obscure code convention
for placing an image on the page or italicising text.

3)      Accessibility - it would be embarrassing if the much vaunted (by
us at any rate) accessibility features of Xerte were documented on an
inaccessible wiki page. I've not yet had a chance to get a screenreader
user to test the page but I certainly wouldn't want to push this out
before having done so. There are 14 tests for assessing the
accessibility of web2 services (see www.web2access.org.uk) and I'd want
to be sure we could meet most of them before putting my name to a Xerte
centre of the universe.

Certainly the wiki could be invaluable at putting together the
specifications for training and support materials - and it may well be
appropriate for hosting the materials themselves but I think there needs
to be rather more debate on the matter and this might be the sort of
thing that is thrashed out in relation to the XPERT project meeting in
May.

Alistair

From: Julian Tenney [mailto:Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk] 
Sent: 28 April 2009 12:22
To: ronm at mitchellmedia.co.uk; Alistair McNaught
Subject: RE: [Xerte] Wiki

I think we should concentrate on making wiki.xerte.net the centre of the
known universe. We need all the documentation - from us, from the xpert
project, from other contributers to live in one place where it can
easily be updated and maintained. 

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of RonM
Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 12:11 PM
To: 'Xerte discussion list'
Subject: RE: [Xerte] Wiki

Apologies if this comes through twice but I sent this at 10.40 this
morning and it hasn't appeared on the list yet. L

Hi Julian

Apologies for not responding sooner - was delivering Toolkits training
all day yesterday.

When we were discussing the use of a wiki off-list recently I was
thinking that would be for developing the spec for the support material
rather than the actual support material. But as has been suggested
subsequently an installation of MediaWiki might do both
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki as an example a lot of the
moodle documentation is provided via MediaWiki
http://docs.moodle.org/en/Main_Page 

Ron

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Patrick
Lockley
Sent: 28 April 2009 10:49
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: RE: [Xerte] Wiki

I did quite a bit on www.installationwiki.org re toolkits guidance, and
then some spammer wrecked it and all my work got deleted.

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Mark
Tomlinson
Sent: 28 April 2009 10:49
To: 'Xerte discussion list'
Subject: RE: [Xerte] Wiki

I'll see what I can do....

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Patrick
Lockley
Sent: 28 April 2009 10:38
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: RE: [Xerte] Wiki

I made an account as well, but my inner pedant says Captcha?

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Mark
Tomlinson
Sent: 28 April 2009 09:44
To: 'Xerte discussion list'
Subject: RE: [Xerte] Wiki

Jules

I think people can simply create their own accounts??

Anyone an expert on media wiki on the list??

Mark

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: 27 April 2009 21:25
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: RE: [Xerte] Wiki

I think there needs to be documentation for people developing the
software, and documentation for people using the software. It could be
in the same place, or in different places as the two groups will have
quite different requirements. Googlecode happened to have a convenient
wiki which is what Pat has started to use today. Sourceforge have also
just approved my project request, so now is a good time for us to decide
google code or sourceforge once and for all. I might set up a project on
soirceforge anyway adn then we can vote or something. You can see the
google code pages already. I like the simplicity a lot - it fits well
with our FWS design principles for the software itself.

Mark - how would we add users to the wiki you set up? That (or something
similar) should probably host the bulk of the user docs, and be the one
place for info on using Xerte in its various forms. I would love it if
someone were to step forward and take on managing that space.

We have several people primed to start creating documentation and I'm
keen it doesn't become fragmented. 

Alistair and Ron: would a wiki meet your needs? wiki.xerte.net in
particular. 

J

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From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk on behalf of Patrick Lockley
Sent: Mon 27/04/2009 19:10
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: RE: [Xerte] Wiki

10 repositories.

1 for those that speak binary, 1 for those that don't - or grom my take
so far on the installs of XOT, we have the sysadmin types who would want
the scope to do whatever they wanted, and the dabblers who want
something a little more light.

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From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk on behalf of Dave Burnett
Sent: Mon 27/04/2009 17:22
To: Xerte list
Subject: RE: [Xerte] Wiki

Totally your call, but I'm not sure about the facility of splitting
locations...

> Subject: RE: [Xerte] Wiki
> Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 17:09:40 +0100
> From: Patrick.Lockley at nottingham.ac.uk
> To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> 
> Can do both - I see the google one as the trouble shooter
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Mark
> Tomlinson
> Sent: 27 April 2009 17:06
> To: 'Xerte discussion list'
> Subject: RE: [Xerte] Wiki
> 
> I spoke to Julian about this a while back and I did set one up then
on:
> 
> http://wiki.xerte.net
> 
> I never got round to publicising it though :-(
> 
> Mark
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Patrick
> Lockley
> Sent: 27 April 2009 17:01
> To: Xerte discussion list
> Subject: [Xerte] Wiki
> 
> http://code.google.com/p/xerte/w/list
> 
> Your wish is our command, if your wishes are based primarily on wikis
> that is :)
> 
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