2006-10-02

MattisManzel: Alex,

(13:10:53) mattis^: oddwikis banned content has an oversensibility, Every simple text causes: contains forbidden text, not permitted to edit because of the rule “^[A-Za-z].* .*\n$”. Someone can read that?

(13:11:24) mattis^: saving just “a” on the page works

(13:15:15) mattis^: it seems like the blancs are forbidden

(13:15:41) mattis^: space

(13:16:44) mattis^: that’s pretty annoying, only kensanata has access the banned content list, true?

(13:24:59) mattis^: it seems to occurr only on day-pages - I first noticed it yesterday on a day-page I couldn’t save, now it occurrs on http://www.communitywiki.org/odd/SandDiki/2006-10-02_11h00_FirstDikiPage

Thanks.

Hi Mattis. Basically this pattern prevents people from creating pages containg exactly one line starting with a letter A-Z containing at least two words. We’ve had a vandal bot that kept replacing pages with such a one-liner. [1] – AlexSchroeder

Vapour

Hi, I’m a beginner to all this so forgive my ignorance. I’m somewhat familiar with Wikipedia editing. I wanted to use the same format to organise my history course work. After a bit of searching I’ve found this site. I have already experimented by creating several entries. First question is how can I insert reference like <ref> in Wikipedia? Secondly, I don’t really need to or want to share my work. I just like the way online encycropedia organise the information. Am I using the right programme?

MattisManzel: Hi Vapour. http://url turns a link when saving a page. A text published in a wiki is basically open for everybody to look at. Wikipedia is the biggest site applying wiki-software, we’re another wiki here. Oddwikis on the oddwiki-hive (hive as you don’t have to ask for permission here, wiki) - you made one, I’ve read some of it, interesting topic, I think. Welcome.

AlexSchroeder: I don’t know the <ref> markup in Wikipedia. I guess that means no such markup is available. I’d just create a numbered list at bottom of a page and use that for bibliography, if that’s what the <ref> tag does. When you get your own Oddmuse installation, you might install other modules or write your own that implement such a text formatting rule, of course.