wiki farmURL fixes

Re: URL blacklist

URL blacklist

How difficult would it be to create a URL blacklist? It's getting ridiculous dealing with the same spammers
coming and posting the same links over and over again.

A proposal for a new comments system

Greetings!

On RocWiki, comments have been a contentious feature.  We aim for a
factual and neutral point-of-view for the "main" content on a page, with
opinions and whatnot kept to the comments.  This works fairly well, but
the current implementation limits flexibility and makes comments a
target for abuse.  I am proposing a new system that separates the
comments from the main page content, solving some of these issues and
allowing for flexibility to add features in the future.

The current Comments macro functions by appending the user's comment to
the bottom of the page.  This is simple and works pretty well, as long
as some rules are respected:

 * Don't edit other people's comments
 * Don't delete other people's comments
 * Don't mess with the formatting

These three rules run directly counter to the normal wiki instincts, yet
are essential to the use of comments for open discourse.  Unfortunately,
these rules are not always respected, and when they aren't, all hell
breaks loose.  We've also had issues with very heavily-commented pages:
new comments get added to the bottom, which is a long ways from the top.

I believe the best long-term solution to this is to separate the
comments from the editable page content.  I propose to do this by
creating a database table to store comments, with the comments.py macro
responsible for outputting the comments during page rendering.

This system should initially support the following:

 * Seamless transition from current system, including importing of
existing comments
 * The ability for users to delete and edit their own comments
 * The ability for admins to delete and edit other user's comments
 * The ability for users to delete comments from their own user page
 * Sorting displayed comments newest-to-oldest
 * Comments should still appear in the Recent Changes page as usual

In the future, I envision the system perhaps supporting:

 * RSS feeds for comments (for example, a feed of all comments across
the site)
 * Threads: being able to reply to a comment and having your comment
linked to the original
 * Comment voting: users can vote up/vote down other comments
 * Page voting: along with a comment, including one to five "stars",
e.g. for restaurant "review"-like stuff

In some ways, my model for this is reddit.com's comment system, although
probably nothing that fancy will occur.

I plan to start work on this in the near future, and am wondering if
other folks are interested in something like this and/or if there's any
feedback or suggestions.  If so, some collaboration could surely ensue.

Thanks!  -rt

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Ryan Tucker <rtucker@...>

google webmaster tools start

Sycamore SVN (unofficially and experimentally) cloned onto github

In a cold sweat last evening, I realized it was the end of the quarter,
and the odds of devjavu being gone this particular morning were
therefore somewhat higher than usual.  (It's still around this morning,
phew)

So, I used a svn2git tool to import the sycamore SVN into git overnight,
and then pushed it to github so it's not just on my computer:

http://github.com/rtucker/sycamore/tree

No endorsement of git, github, or myself is being made by this; I just
wanted to make sure things didn't go poof overnight.    Feel free to
use this to play around with git/github.  However, the SVN is still the
final authority so don't use this for real development/deployment.  -rt

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Ryan Tucker <rtucker@...>

Re: Fwd: Important Notice: DevjaVu is going to be shutting down

Fwd: Important Notice: DevjaVu is going to be shutting down

Re: Real Names

Real Names

Seems like a fair number of people, especially on new wikis seem to pass
over the whole, we recommend you use your real name. I'm wondering if we
should add a check or 2 on the registration process that looks for odd
things like numbers in the name, and prompts. "This doesn't appear to be
your real name, real name's are important ....are you sure you want to
use this name, checkbox."

It's been so long, I actually don't really remember what the
registration process says, guess I should look it up on me dev box.

What do people think?
Alex

Trac/SVN down

See http://blog.devjavu.com/2009/04/01/more-upstream-problems-today/

Should be up again soon.