Omega Point

16 Responses to “LSL Wiki relocating”

1. By Gigs Taggart on Sep 10, 2006 | Reply

   Once we’re done mov­ing it to medi­awiki, will you put that up on lslwiki.com?
2. By Catherine Omega on Sep 10, 2006 | Reply

   If it turns out that the Medi­aWiki plat­form looks like the best way to go, then yes. I’m a lit­tle con­cerned about flex­i­bil­ity issues with page nam­ing. I haven’t checked in a cou­ple months, but case sen­si­tiv­ity in page titles is still an issue, no?
3. By Gigs Taggart on Sep 10, 2006 | Reply

   Yes. First char­ac­ter must be capital.

   I don’t think it’s a crit­i­cal prob­lem though. Wikipedia seems to man­age OK.
4. By Thraxis Epsilon on Sep 10, 2006 | Reply

   For Medi­aWiki, it is case Sen­si­tive for all char­ac­ters BUT the first. By default it will set the first char­ac­ter to upper­case, but on links it will accept either case.

   As for mov­ing over to Medi­aWiki.. there is a script float­ing around to do the con­ver­sion from wakka to Medi­aWikki, if you have access to both databases.
5. By Catherine Omega on Sep 10, 2006 | Reply

   Yes, but the bulk of Wikipedia’s arti­cles don’t have manda­tory low­er­case lead­ing char­ac­ters, whereas the LSL wiki’s sub­ject mat­ter does. Plac­ing a nota­tion that it’s actu­ally “llOwn­er­Say”, rather than “LlOwn­er­Say” is done eas­ily enough, but it sure doesn’t help readability.
6. By Gigs Taggart on Sep 10, 2006 | Reply

   Looks like there might be a flag to fix it. Thraxis, can you look into that?
7. By Gigs Taggart on Sep 10, 2006 | Reply

   #
   # $wgCap­i­talLinks — Set this to false to avoid forc­ing the first let­ter of links to capitals.
8. By Catherine Omega on Sep 10, 2006 | Reply

   That sounds pretty good then. Can you clar­ify some­thing though? The prob­lem that Medi­aWiki seemed to have back when we first looked at port­ing it was that if I flag that, it then ends up hav­ing prob­lems with case recog­ni­tion. “llSet­Color” is treated dif­fer­ently than “llsetcolor”.

   Is this behav­ior still the case?
9. By Thraxis Epsilon on Sep 10, 2006 | Reply

   Chang­ing that flag makes the Wiki com­pleatly case sen­si­tive. With that flag not set only the first let­ter is not case sensitive.

   so llSet­Color and LlSet­Color with the flag set are two dif­fer­ent pages, with­out it they are the same page.
10. By Catherine Omega on Sep 10, 2006 | Reply

    So there’s no way to main­tain case sen­si­tiv­ity with­out auto­mat­i­cally cap­i­tal­iz­ing the lead­ing char­ac­ter of a page name?

    If so, what do you guys think is the best way to han­dle that in that case?
11. By Gigs Taggart on Sep 10, 2006 | Reply

    I’d say make it com­pletely case sen­si­tive and put in lower case redirects.
12. By Gigs Taggart on Sep 10, 2006 | Reply

    You got it back­ward any­way Cather­ine, it’s case sen­si­tive if we allow lower case first let­ter, and not case sen­si­tive in the default mode of mak­ing the first let­ter upper case.
13. By Catherine Omega on Sep 10, 2006 | Reply

    Oops, that IS what I said, isn’t it. Okay, that sounds rea­son­able. I guess we can look at that then.
14. By Thraxis Epsilon on Sep 10, 2006 | Reply

    Cather­ine… you are more than wel­come to use the Medi­aWiki to sand­box on
15. By Buhbuhcuh Fairchild on Sep 12, 2006 | Reply

    hey Cather­ine, badgeometry.com is still avail­able! :-D
16. By ZenMondo on Sep 16, 2006 | Reply

    I’m look­ing for­ward to the new home of the wiki. Though you won’t get any com­plaints from me because I don’t want to look at sparkly heart logo every day.

    I’m glad to see you can keep a sense of humor about things.

Sorry, comments for this entry are closed at this time.