Prototyping 2020.01.13

pad https://pad.xpub.nl/p/Prototyping_2020.01.13

Mediawiki as development archive and editorial space

text, images, pdf (audio)
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Projects where MW serves as backed to other reading interfaces

static

Mondotheque / The Radiated Book

• wiki Main Page
• wiki - publication index
• Resulting PDF
• Wiki to Print scripts

PZI Graduation website

• Resulting website: https://www.lensbased.nl/
• Wiki Pages Category:Graduation_work
• Wiki to Web scripts

Natasha Berting: Warnet

• Project wiki: https://hub.xpub.nl/warnet/
• Process documentation: User:Tash/grad_prototyping3
• Wiki to Print: Game Cards

dynamic

Renee Turner: Warp Weft Memory

• Website: http://warpweftmemory.net/#/notes
• Interview https://www.pandemic.space/2018/10/31/the-warp-and-weft-of-memory/

Femke Snelting & Michael Murtaugh: Tonnelstof

• http://toneelstof.be/
• Wiki: http://toneelstof.be/w
• Project description
• Presentation at SMWCon

Pages on Wiki based Publishing

• Wiki
• Wiki publishing

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Access to sandbox Pi

• url: http://hub.xpub.nl/sandbox
• tinc IP: 10.0.0.11

How to SSH to HUB nodes

On the user's personal machine (where the public key was generated) just:

ssh -J xpub.nl:2501 $IP

If for any reason it doesnt work, please send us the output of:

ssh -J xpub.nl:2501 $IP -vvv

~/.ssh/config

Here is a ssh configuration which should allow you to ssh easily from your local machine to one of the Hub nodes

using only:

ssh hub.nodename

By adding to ~/.ssh/config the following configuration, and changing with the correct details:

Host hub.nodename 
User username
Hostname  10.0.0.XXX
ProxyJump username@xpub.nl:2501
Identityfile ~/.ssh/id_rsa
Serveraliveinterval 30

Where:

• nodename: is the name you would like to give this node of hub.
• XXX: termination if node's IP
• username: your username in the Pi and Xpub server (should be the same)
• ~/.ssh/id_rsa location of the private keys

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Mediawiki install:

Follow instructions at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Installation_guide

Dependencies installed:

• webserver: Apache
• PHP7.3 + necessary extensions
• imagemagick
• MYSQL server
  • create db & db user for wiki

Install MediaWiki

• Download MW .tar.gz folder to the the html/ dir of this machine, usually `/var/www/html`
• untar `tar xfvz mediawiki-1.34.0.tar.gz`
• change the name on the resulting mw directory, for instance superwiki
• in the browser go to IP.of.server/superwiki for browser based installer
• install extensions:
  • wikieditor
  • OATHAuth

Post Installation

• image uploads
  • enable images upload to designate location (inside MW directory)
  • define formats allowed
  • define maximum size of uploads
    • in MW LocalSettings.php
    • in php.ini

• extensions
  • SimpleBatchUpload
  • Page_Forms
  • Cargo

Mediawiki work groups

Each work group should document its changes and process in the [[Help:]] pages of the itchwiki

[[Special:SpecialPages]] and [[Special:AdminLinks]] is a good place to look on the wiki for pages that help with Media, Admin, Navigation

Group: Media

• ensure media files can be uploaded
• ensure media are uploaded to the right location: where external harddisk is mounted
• ensure that the upload size limit is large enough to allow for the largest upload
• outline the information that should be included once media is uploaded
• upload the media from the archive, following the process describe in Digital_zines_I:_PDF#Make_a_single_PDF_of_all_the_images
  • why PDFs instead of single images?
  • searchable pdfs

Wiki pages:

• [[Special:NewFiles]]
• [[Special:ListFiles]]
• [[Special:MediaStatistics]]

Mediawiki documentation: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Configuring_file_uploads

itch documentation page [[Help:Media]]

Group: Admin

This groups should be responsible for

• creating account to guests & tutors
  • xpub1 + tutors should be given admin rights
• give or revoke rights to users
• keep an eye on active users

Wiki pages:

• [[Special:CreateAccount]] for creating accounts
• [[Special:UserRights]] for giving or revoking users' rights
• [[Special:AdminLinks]]

Mediawiki documentation: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:System_administration#Setting_administrative_rights

itch documentation page [[Help:Administration]]

Group: Navigation

This groups should be responsible for:

• ensuring important pages of wiki have links in sidebar and main page
• transclude special pages such as {{Special:NewFiles}} to main page
• if wished change the CSS in [[MediaWiki:Common.css]]

Wiki pages:

• [[MediaWiki:Sidebar]]
• [[Main_Page]]

Mediawiki documentation: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Interface/Sidebar

itch documentation page [[Help:Navigation]]