Creating Your Own Wiki
TIG provides support for two wiki platforms: MediaWiki and TWiki. TWiki is what powers the TIG web site. MediaWiki powers popular sites such as
Wikipedia. Which wiki you choose is largely a matter of personal preference, as both are fairly flexible and can be configured with a variety of different behaviors and appearances.
TWiki
TWiki is installed on
http://projects.csail.mit.edu/wiki/, so all TWiki Webs will appear as subdirectories of that URL. Feel free to experiment with it in the "Sandbox" web at
http://projects.csail.mit.edu/cgi-bin/wiki/view/Sandbox/WebHome The Sandbox is world-writable and there is (or should be) no important content, so feel free to hack on it as much as you want in order to get a feel for how TWiki works.
TWiki can be configured to restrict read and/or write access based on CSAIL certificates, or you can allow anybody to
read and/or edit it. There is no provision for people from
outside CSAIL to have a wiki account, though, so anybody without a CSAIL
certificate will be "anonymous" (a.k.a.
TWikiGuest) when editing the
wiki.
If you want to use TWiki, please email
help@csail.mit.edu and request a new TWiki Web. We will need to know what to name your Wiki Web. The name can be up to 10 characters long and must begin with at least one upper-case letter.
MediaWiki
MediaWiki is a powerful - and moderately complex - wiki platform that can be installed at any URL on CSAIL's standard web servers (groups, projects, courses, people). Please email
help@csail.mit.edu to start this process, being sure to include:
- Name of wiki (hopefully one word, to be displayed in <TITLE> etc)
- Desired URL (generally similar to groups.csail.mit.edu/foo/wiki)
- Desired level of access control (will only CSAIL members be editing? should it be visible by the public? etc.)
- Owner/administrator of the wiki, if different from you yourself
TIG members: see
the howto if you're setting one up for a user.
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NoahMeyerhans - 16 Nov 2005
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ArthurProkosch - 26 Jun 2008
