Difference between revisions of "NVC Wiki Technical Issues"

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Design

User:Sophie has contacted User:Markus Pallo about NVC Wiki design. User:Jason Felice is also involved in this effort.

Notes and Ideas: multiplicity and connection (eg. leaves of a tree...variations on a theme...)

A subtitle for the title NVC WIKI? eg. Connecting the world with Empathy... compassionate connection through nonviolent communication ....collaborating with compassion to create a resource for nonviolent communication around the globe...your ideas?

Opportunities for design

Some of the obvious things that could be redesigned

• site front page
• logo/image (top left)
• everything that can be changed via the mutable css.
  • 'frame' background colour/image, text
  • frame tabs - colours, text, shape?
  • page background colour, text
  • body text styles
  • navigation panel colours, border, text

Site URL

Many of us prefer nvcwiki.org to nvcwiki.com, and no one has objected yet. Markus Pallo will look into changing it to so that nvcwiki.com gets redirected to nvcwiki.org (the opposite of how it is now).

Capitalization

Is it possible to have MediaWiki ignore capitalization, so that a link to "Social change" goes to a page called "Social Change" ? (and vice-versa)

As far as i understood the first letter wil be automatically uppercased. And i read the roadmap for the major plans for release 1.6 there is "Case-insensitive, case-preserving page titles" feature planned. see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_roadmap

SisterSites

Check if/how MediaWiki supports SisterSites. SisterSites is a feature which links wikis together. On any page which has the same name as pages on other wikis (those selected as "sisters" of the origin wiki), links automatically appear to those other wikis. See http://ourpla.net/cgi/pikie?SisterSites

Multilingual wiki

Help by WikiMedia :

• language links (Guide for system administrators for setting up interwiki linking)
• Interlanguage link (software feature) (Interwiki linking)
• Documentation on customizing the interface for different languages

InterWiki links

Two ways to create links pointing to other languages pages in the same wiki :

• a link which will appear in the left column

Example 1 [[fr:NVC Wiki - Questions techniques]] appears on this page below the tab in other languages

• a link wich will remain in the right part of the page

Example 2 [[:fr:NVC Wiki - Questions techniques]] becomes fr:NVC Wiki - Questions techniques

Other ways the net/computers can support NVC

www.nvctorrents.org

Initiate a website providing the quality of interactions one can find here :

• http://chomskytorrents.org/ using BitTorrent technology

Here is an example :

• http://dieudo.dyndns.org:6969/
  • the conference (ConferenceNantes2003) one can find there is both in english and french, was given by Marshall B. Rosenberg during 2003 at Nantes, France, and translated in french by Godfrey Spencer and Anne Bourrit. It can be downloaded with free/open source softwares, as described for BitTorrent.
  • it is also described here : http://dieudo.dyndns.org/Conference-de-Nantes [fr]

Other CMS for NVC

Here are the CMS being used or considered for and by the NVC World's networks :

• SPIP used for nvc-europe.org/SPIP

• Drupal, Plone, Typo3 being considered by the CNVC

Comparison tools

• http://www.wikimatrix.org/
• http://www.cmsmatrix.org/
• http://www.opensourcecms.com where you can test many CMS (public and private part). The ones using PHP and MySQL (for others, see for example what is said about plone) .

EMail digest

Does the wiki have email digest option ?