The main administrator of the wiki is SimonNielsen. You can poke him if you have problems with the wiki (e.g. lost password etc.).
The history of the FreeBSD wiki can be found on the WikiHistory page.
New accounts
Cookbook version
To be able to edit pages a registered wiki account is needed:
Create a wiki profile / account using UserPreferences page
- Get a registered FreeBSD committer to add user to appropriate group:
DevelopersGroup - For FreeBSD Committers
ContributorsGroup - For everybody else, including SummerOfCode students
Longer version
Note that as a general rule only FreeBSD committers get access to edit this wiki. This is done since the wiki was set up for FreeBSD committers, and the wiki administrator(s) don't have time to deal with "normal" user issues.
To get access to edit pages simply create an account simply click on the Login link and create an account. Note that moinmoin (the wiki software) uses the convention of FirstLast name (e.g. SimonNielsen) for user names, so it's preferred if people follow this style. Thereafter you need someone who is already in DevelopersGroup to add you to the DevelopersGroup to allow access to edit pages. You can poke SimonNielsen or RemkoLodder for this.
If developers want non-developers/non-committers to have access to the wiki (e.g. for SummerOfCode2007), they can be added to the ContributorsGroup group. Contributors can edit all but a few selected pages.
Upgrade Notes
The wiki was upgraded to moinmoin 1.6 2008-06-17 by SimonNielsen. Please report any problems not mentioned below:
Known Problems
- The custom flags are not working
- self: and wiki: links do not work anymore (note: not sure if this is a bug, or just the new world order)
The surge protection workaround does not seem fully effective anymore [Should be fixed]
Modifications
The following modifications have been made to the standard moinmoin. These are added here mainly as a help to the admin in case of future upgrade...
More flags
As suggested by SergeyMatveychuk, a bunch of flags has been added. See the HelpOnSmileys for information on how to use the flags in the wiki. The flags came from http://www.maxmind.com/download/geoip/database/flag.zip and are used here with permission. The following (very elegant!) perl oneliner was used to convert to moinmoin config format:
ls *.gif | perl -ne 'chomp; /(.*)\.gif/; print " \"{flag-$1}\": (18, 12, 1, \"flags/$1.gif\"),\n";'