Wikispooks:Technical
This section of WikiSpooks pages is abou the software used to run this site.
Site Backup
- Full article: Project:Site Backup
- Full article: Project:Site Backup
WikiSpooks is backed up weekly and full backups are published here (~2.5GB download). This includes all the files needed to run a copy of the site on your own webserver. The site is open licensed (CC-A-SA) and you are encouraged to distribute this information widely.
Software
- Full article: Special:Version
- Full article: Special:Version
The core of the Wikispooks site runs MediaWiki version 1.33.2, augmented with quite a wide variety of extensions. For overview of which versions of which extensions are installed, see Special:Version.
Semantic MediaWiki
- Full article: WikiSpooks:Semantic Mediawiki
- Full article: WikiSpooks:Semantic Mediawiki
Semantic MediaWiki is one of the most important (and complex) MediaWiki extensions used by this site. The aim is to take the site beyond simple processing of human readable text by marking up the information contained in WikiSpooks as RDF (a machine readable format).
Site Feeds
- Full article: WikiSpooks:Site feeds
- Full article: WikiSpooks:Site feeds
WikiSpooks has a number of site feeds (currently in Atom/RSS format) which may help you integrate it with other software.
Timelines
- Full article: WikiSpooks:Timelines
- Full article: WikiSpooks:Timelines
Peter is working on adding timeline functionality to the site. This gives a graphic display of events and sub events.
Uploading
- Full article: WikiSpooks:File Uploads
- Full article: WikiSpooks:File Uploads
For security reasons, the number of file formats which are uploadable is limited. This article lists the permitted extensions. Note that Anonymous Uploads use a different system and are not restricted in this way.
Contact
- Full article: WikiSpooks:PGP Public Key
- Full article: WikiSpooks:PGP Public Key
When contacting the site administrator by Email, you are recommended to do so via encrypted Email and to use this PGP key.
Sandboxes
- Sandbox page - A Sandbox page on this wiki. Ideal for experimenting with wikitext editing.
- Sandbox wiki - A separate Sandbox wiki for prototyping of templates, forms, javascript gizmos etc.
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