[MG] Home page redesign competition

[Ed Pastore]

On Feb 4, 2011, at 11:19 PM, Michael Allan wrote:

> whilo wrote:
>> I am ok with it. I don't know exactly what is involved to get
>> free-range drafting working, but I am open to tasks.
>
> There were some difficulties (sorry for the long delay), but it seems
> to be working now.  To try it out in the metagov wiki, we need a few
> config changes.  Ed?
>
>  1. Please verify (when you have a moment) that $wgEnableWriteAPI is
>     *not* set to false in LocalSettings.php.
>     http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgEnableWriteAPI

This is not set in LocalSettings, so I made no change as the default  
is true.

>  2. Ensure that bots are not barred from using the write API.  You
>     might see something like this:
>
>       $wgGroupPermissions['*']['writeapi'] = false;

I did not see any instance of "writeapi" in the LocalSettings...

>     If so, then add this after it:
>
>       $wgGroupPermissions['bot']['writeapi'] = true;

but I added the above

>     The item "use of the write API" should now appear here as a right
>     for bots: http://metagovernment.org/wiki/Special:ListGroupRights

...and now this appears in the linked page.

>  3. Then make user Vobot a 'bot':
>     http://metagovernment.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3AUserRights&user=Vobot

This user is now a bot.

> This will enable us to experiment with the tools on the homepage
> drafts - differencing, patching and cherry-picking changes across
> texts.  Vobot is the agent that writes the results back to the wiki.

Great!



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