Wiki Meeting

Topic

We are going to talk about aliCE Wiki/Website.

Place

Via Venezia 52, APICe Meeting Room.

Time

19 December 2007 h 15:15

Agenda

  • Motivations
    • one easy and fast process to get products/technology information published on the web
    • public display and annotation of research progresses and related deliverables
  • Wiki Concepts
    • Page
    • Links
    • Versions
  • XWiki Concepts
    • Space
    • Document
    • Object (Comment, Attachment, Rights, Tag, et cetera...)
  • XWiki Features
    • collaborative editing
    • "programmable" documents (scripting)
    • plugin architecture
  • Wiki Usage: a brief "crash course" on wiki usage (motivitatons, technology, technique and processes...), screencasts of the demoed tasks will be available. Hereafter there are ideas for tasks/screencasts... (see the table for the ones to be demoed) any further suggestion is appreciated
TaskToBeDemoed
Basic editing using the WYSIWYG editoryes
Creating various types of links using the WYSIWYG editoryes
Creating a new Spaceyes
Creating tables using the WYSIWYG editoryes
Modify a table using the WYSIWYG editoryes
Attaching files to a pageyes
Attaching an image using the WYSIWYG editoryes
Setting Access Rights for a Pageyes
Creating a Pubblication Pageno
Viewing page history and rolling back an older versionno
Setting Access Rights for a Spaceno
Attaching a file using the WYSIWYG editorno
Creating a Custom Panel (e.g. logo) for a Spaceno
Creating a Menu Panel for a Spaceyes
  • Wiki Purposes: discussion on purposes of wiki usages, any further suggestion is appreciated
    • What name for the wiki/website (aliCE/APICe)? The name will be APICe (as a container for integrated research efforts / projects
    • What visibility for which spaces?
    • Space Products? As every products has its own space there is only the page Products WebHome
    • Which Language?
    • Is a push-button process to create a pre-populated new space needed?
    • What about personal pages/spaces?
    • What about IT Operations? Nazzareno suggests adopting Virtualization (as the whole system is customized) as a consolidation strategy
    • Naming Policy :  Pages and Spaces ,  no spaces camel case