test the waters -- Thu, 08 Apr 2004 11:14:22 -0700 reply
via ZWiki:GeneralDiscussion : "We should be able to get to anywhere in the zope world from there."
Important point. I wish the word "Directory" wasn't so saturated. Where zwiki.org serves as a public example of a project wiki, zopewiki.org will may as an organizational (community?) directory. :-) I expect this is intended, correct me if it's off target. I'm interested in seeing ways to encourage the community to search the "local" directory before other resources (google). My expectation is based on content and functionality.
The RecentChanges? link is rather odd: http://zopewiki.org/AccessRules/recentchanges ... all items in the header include the AccessRules? page. :-/
-- DeanG?
NEW Zope 2 wiki -- Fri, 09 Apr 2004 09:34:10 -0700 reply
Hi all! - Great to have a main wiki for Zope now! Since i experienced the first working project and documentation-by-community wiki which was http://zwiki.org i wanted to have the same for Zope itself. (Dean, i am not sure if i understand correctly what you mean with organizational (community?) directory) - I imagine of course this wiki to be a place where to search before googling and which has the same weight in daily development as ZopeChat? and MailingLists?.
Two technical remarks -- Fri, 09 Apr 2004 15:09:51 -0700 reply
Two technical remarks: (1) ExternalEditor doesnt work for me (my fault?) and (2) in RecentChanges? all pages are always marked with NEW.
Two technical remarks -- Fri, 09 Apr 2004 15:38:01 -0700 reply
I think so - ExternalEditor works for me, without login.
NEW indicates pages less than a week old.
Building Dynamic Websites With Zope -- Sat, 10 Apr 2004 09:04:33 -0700 reply
I put several paragraphs from DieterMaurer?`s book Building Dynamic Websites With Zope in Zope 2 wiki - it's nice to see these articles interlinked and they offer a good intro for each topic, if they're referenced from another article in the future. - i just want to be sure if this is ok for you!? Is this intended for Zope 2 wiki to become??
Zope Book refactor? -- Sat, 10 Apr 2004 09:08:36 -0700 reply
Having a direct competition with Zope Book seems no good. Should we mayeb take the material from the Zope Book and refactor it into the rest of the Wiki?
... -- Sat, 10 Apr 2004 09:18:03 -0700 reply
Yes. that's what i also wanted to suggest. - It was by chance that i took Dieter's articles half a year ago and put also about ten to fifteen translated to the german DZUG wiki. In fact in Zope Book there's much more which is suitable to split it for a wiki. - I will have time to check that later/maybe tomorrow - it's necessary to discuss the naming conventions for pages about classes and modules etc. So - just wanted to make a start, so visitors would see what's possible in a wiki.
Oh and - yes - i'll ask Dieter for permission, he also allowed using and translating his texts for DZUG wiki.
Cheers flo
Zope Book refactor? -- Sat, 10 Apr 2004 11:13:26 -0700 reply
hi guys.. interesting thought. Let's discuss, but I think we should avoid such drastic steps until more people have found their way here. We are just getting rolling. Also the Zope Book is a distinct, maintained high quality body of content that's probably not going away - to dissolve it into the wiki without an agreed plan sounds like madness..
but then good ideas sometimes do. Do you think it would be legal ?
Zope Book -- Sun, 11 Apr 2004 02:44:02 -0700 reply
I don't know about the legality issue, the Zope Book is supposed to have very flexible licenses. Chris McDonough? would know, so if we do this we we should mail him first to check. If it isn't legal (which I doubt) it just means we have to write everything from scratch...
The Zope Book will not go away. This Wiki is not the source of it, Zope Corp is. But a good way to organize a book is not a good way to organize a Wiki.
Zope Book refactor? -- Sun, 11 Apr 2004 08:43:28 -0700 reply
I agree, that's better to wait with pasting large pages of content until more people joined the wiki and left their footprints here, structured it, put content (from anywhere or self-written) etc. in it. The Zopebook and other guides are good sources to take intros, api and definitions for here and i'd suggest to put a sentence in on the policies pages like "If you're concerned with a certain topic, dont have time to write yourself but know a (public domain) resource like Zope Book (if it is!) you're encouraged to copy the content to here". ((please correct to proper english)) A person who does so, (1) does the work and (2) feels as a worthful contributor and comes back (IMO).
Legal issues: I suppose the Zope Corp. will allow pasting the content here (at least with a line about the source at the top), anyone should write to them, address see http://www.zope.com/Legal and http://www.zope.com/Legal/LegalNotices or contact someone directly. It should be allowed to refactor it - a good way to organize a book is not a good way to organize a Wiki.
WikiMailOut? already enabled -- Sun, 11 Apr 2004 08:46:52 -0700 reply
I see the msg (1 subscriber) at the bottom but no "subscribe" link - is WikiMailOut? already enabled, Simon??
WikiMailOut? already enabled -- Tue, 13 Apr 2004 09:35:57 -0700 reply
Not yet, "1 subscribers" is a bug.
Zope Book refactor -- Thu, 15 Apr 2004 19:04:14 -0700 reply
I will not address issues of legality, other than to say that my impression is that the book's license is liberal and if it contributes positively to Zope, ZC will have no reason to complain. I would like to add my 2 cents which would be that we should not copy and paste content from the book, much for the same reason you should not copy and paste code around. It merely erodes any chance there ever was of maintaining the content. IMHO people should focus on building this site from the ground up. We can certainly reflect on the book, and especially the comments, and use it as a pattern/anti-pattern. Links are not bad and should be encouraged. You can never have too much documentation. I think this site would be wonderful if it merely categorized and provided links to all of the other existing content. I know it will be more than links, and I love that, but the links are still highly valuable.
Anonymous edits -- Fri, 16 Apr 2004 01:44:53 -0700 reply
I will here try an lobby for turning anonymous edits OFF. I would love to see the texts I have written be improved upon, even by "anonymous cowards" :) But the fact is that so far all that happens is unexplained edits that make things worse in one way or another. If I knew who it was I could mail them and ask why. Now I can't, so all I do is change it back. And the anonymous person, whoever it is, changes it again.
This is just stupid. I know you can fake the e-mail adress, but by forcing people to write something in, at least they aren't anonymous because they forgot (which happened to me).
misc -- Fri, 16 Apr 2004 07:33:17 -0700 reply
Zope Book refactor, Anonymous edits, ThreadModeVsDocumentMode?, RefactorComments etc.: I should describe detailed what my motivation is when creating pages like ZODB (Zope Object Database), ZPublisher etc. - Actually I working on this wiki to build THE Zope documentation base, making use from the easiness of editing and linking of wiki. So i try to make the ZPublisher page THE most informative page about that topic in the web: First paste the best description from a book as long as i cant write it better. maybe paste first the main part as long as dont have time to do more. Later extract parts of it, when i am concerned with them. ie. today my fight with the TraversalHooks. Later i stumbled about some ZODB (Zope Object Database) stuff and looked for good intros in it, so i just collected the links on that page. When something comes to my mind or when i know something to say to a new edit i might comment it even if it's ugly. It'll be refactored, (probably by me). Sure it's nicer to have much "more document than thread" on a page, but in case you're looking for an answer, you're thankful if you find a thread about the topic than nothing. I'd suggest to state the usual two weeks to leave a thread alone before deleting it. Same gardening policy could count for copy&pasted pages. Everybody who pastes text from elsewhere (to a new page) is the PageMaintainer? "by law" and has to care for its evolution and integration in the wiki. If there's nothing to see after some time, others may rebuild the page along their wishes. That's fair, right? At least this was the policy for http://zwiki.org and i always had the impression of a well working wiki. I definetly go with casey, that people should focus on building this site from ground up - just interpret it that way, it does not mean everything has to written anew. The processes of (1) collecting and categorizing docs and (2) creating a new doc resource must be balanced in longterm (to write a bit philosophically). To summarize the most important thing at the end: The wiki must be valuable at every point in time. Even if it is under construction it hast to be a place where people are attracted to. And they are attracted to other people, to a community and/or to a good doc resource (maybe in different order).
Zope Book refactor --simon, Fri, 16 Apr 2004 13:11:54 -0700 reply
+1 to what Casey said, and Florian too. I think "tie it all together" is easiest and first priority here; and "become the authoritative zope encyclopaedia" is also desirable and barring any disasters, likely to happen! (though I try not to talk about that lest I sound like the wiki zealot :).
Zope Book refactor --simon, Fri, 16 Apr 2004 13:21:48 -0700 reply
PS and what I meant to add: just as with code, the main thing is avoid duplication of effort. Don't Repeat Yourself, etc. Ideally each significant piece of zope knowledge would migrate to one home, whether on the wiki or elsewhere, where it can be refined and referred to. Some duplication might be fine (Zope Book mirror, etc) but it should be easy to find the latest authoritative doc for any zope topic.
Anonymous edits --simon, Fri, 16 Apr 2004 13:37:56 -0700 reply
I'm -1 on requiring editors to enter a username (which can be nothing or changed anyway), at the moment. There are some positives as well as negatives to allowing anonymous edits. Have you seen the discussion around WikiWikiWeb:AnonymousOnPurpose and WikiWikiWeb:search=Anonymous ?
If you're getting persistent destructive edits on a page, please raise it here - I can block by IP address if needed. However it's usually better to tolerate (& fix) a little bit of normal random wiki editing, it will usually stop soon.
packing strategy ? --simon, Sat, 17 Apr 2004 17:12:05 -0700 reply
The database is 500M and I want to pack it. I have usually done 7-14 day packs in the past. This will be the first pack since zopewiki started; if you care about preserving all zopewiki edit history, now's the time to jump in with suggestions for how to keep it.
Current assumptions -
- no speed penalty for mounted storage, therefore I should probably move zopewiki into a mounted storage to isolate it a bit from the rest of the server
- there is a speed penalty for DirectoryStorage, and therefore I should not switch to that right now
- the new APE+subversion solution is too bleeding edge/too much work at this moment
packing strategy ? -- Sat, 17 Apr 2004 23:59:04 -0700 reply
Had to go for it before I ran out of packing room. 7-day pack, 600->300M. I'll keep the old one around a little longer. I also exported the wiki, I'm not sure if that preserves history.
... --LennartRegebro, Tue, 20 Apr 2004 02:08:43 -0700 reply
I think 7 days of history is fine. And I haven't gotten any destructive anonymous edits during the weekend, so maybe it's getting better. :)
zope-dev comments -- Thu, 22 Apr 2004 08:36:20 -0700 reply
Search for 'Zope 2 wiki' in this thread view http://mail.zope.org/pipermail/zope-dev/2004-April/thread.html#22579
zope-dev comments --simon, Thu, 22 Apr 2004 12:32:05 -0700 reply
Excellent thread, thanks. Posting some comments there..
WhatsNewInZope27? ? --simon, Fri, 23 Apr 2004 08:21:54 -0700 reply
Someone deleted this.. intentional ? I think we need to restore it ?
Congratulations for your work -- Fri, 23 Apr 2004 03:42:00 -0700 reply
First, I would like to congratulate you for starting this. I am begining with Zope and Plone, and this looks like a good place to centralize information. There are some problems, though: uptime is very small for the Zope server, and more important, I don't see a way to contact the webmaster :)
Congratulations for your work -- Fri, 23 Apr 2004 12:48:19 -0700 reply
You found one. :) Thank you.
Right, we should probably add that information, at the same time I'm/we're trying to keep the front page simple..
Uptime is small for no very bad reason: zope would like more memory, but that costs more and the site has been running happily as long as I restart it when it nears the limit (every 2-3 hours). Restarts are quick.
Also I'm philosophically inclined to think that it this should all work in less memory, and it probably can, but analysing, tuning the server, shutting out robots etc. takes time. NB the server is running a number of sites, zwiki.org in particular.
Still, I may do something about this soon.
Stuff like this should probably end up archived on ZopeWikiDiscussion?.
Top billing at ZopeMag --simon, Fri, 23 Apr 2004 14:09:40 -0700 reply
Yay, thanks ZopeMag.
where are the links to free ZopeMag articles and of course ZopeMag Weekly News
"It's-a-wiki.." and "Bah. where is the subscriber access I paid for and never got a response to.. and you suckered me with that not-yet-existing zwiki review way back. And that corner of the field with the black cow belonged to my great-uncle.".
Just had to get that off my chest. Ok, I'm over it. :)
linked ZopeMag articles --simon, Fri, 23 Apr 2004 14:57:56 -0700 reply
Excellent.
NEW pages --d2m, Sat, 24 Apr 2004 02:07:57 -0700 reply
Simon: could you provide a listing of "NEW" pages only, and could you provide it in RSS format? if not, i could look into and setup one for you... d2m
NEW pages --simon, Sat, 24 Apr 2004 09:36:54 -0700 reply
Here's a start: WikiStats. I had these on the front page but unfortunately they are noticeably slow, which surprises me a little.
change default display mode ? --simon, Sat, 24 Apr 2004 11:01:47 -0700 reply
Minimal mode seems faster and more consistent in speed right now, though I don't know why. I'm thinking of making it the default as on zwiki.org. Pro: presents a simpler, cleaner, faster site to newbies and busy visitors and may reduce robot load. Con: makes the hierarchy and standard site navigation links non-obvious.
change default display mode ? --simon, Sat, 24 Apr 2004 11:27:21 -0700 reply
Ack, it hides page rating too. That's no good.
ZWiki:rss2 for ZopeWikiRSS? --DeanG?, Sat, 24 Apr 2004 17:40:57 -0700 reply
ZopeWikiRSS? is currently an RDF version. Would it be simpler if it used ZWiki:Rss2/editform ? Slow i-net for me today, but I'll look into full scoop later.
site outage update --simon, Fri, 30 Apr 2004 12:57:10 -0700 reply
Re the site outages on ZopeWikiNews2005.. what I'm seeing (since the last week or so) is the zope process (a zeo client) is restarted somehow, such that var/Z2.pid is no longer correct and nothing appears in the event log, and after this happens zope does not respond to http requests.
Somebody can tell me if zope is different than Knowings's technologie
? -- Mon, 03 May 2004 01:49:27 -0700 reply
Hello every body ! I've just discover the "wiki", somebody can tell me if zope is different than Knowings's technologie ?
Somebody can tell me if zope is different than Knowings's
technologie ? --DeanG?, Thu, 06 May 2004 20:06:30 -0700 reply
Nope
NEW pages --DeanG?, Thu, 06 May 2004 20:10:50 -0700 reply
d2m, Did you get this going? The Zwiki Rss2 work makes this rather easy by searching on page creation date instead of last edited. That code also only requires a single pass, instead of double in the rss 1.x/rdf version.
Zope 2 wiki page -- Fri, 07 May 2004 07:24:18 -0700 reply
Is it intentionally blank?
Zope 2 wiki page -- Fri, 07 May 2004 07:48:55 -0700 reply
recovered, please review.
Zope 2 wiki page --simon, Fri, 07 May 2004 16:46:45 -0700 reply
Looks good now.
PHP-style examples --simon, Fri, 07 May 2004 16:47:33 -0700 reply
Everyone learning zope wants relevant examples right there in the docs, like the PHP or mysql manuals. Any ideas on this ? How can we do it, short of slowly adding examples to pages ? How can we best leverage ZopeLabs & other cookbooks ?
site outage update --simon, Fri, 07 May 2004 20:04:06 -0700 reply
None of these (unscheduled restart + site hang) for a week. Whatever it was.. it seems to have moved on..
restarts --simon, Tue, 25 May 2004 11:49:25 -0700 reply
I just rolled back an i18n bug, also I have been restarting quite a bit for development purposes. I do it when you're not looking. Let me know if it's too much. :)
Проверка -- Fri, 06 Aug 2004 07:24:42 -0700 reply
Проверяем, как отображается кирилица
flash -- Tue, 10 Aug 2004 16:42:04 -0700 reply
hey i was just wondering how to place a flash movie on the homepage of my zope site. any help would be much appreciated
You need more organization! -- Fri, 13 Aug 2004 13:23:46 -0700 reply
This site is quite confuse! How may I find what I want if you don't organize your site??
You need more organization! -- Mon, 16 Aug 2004 06:19:26 -0700 reply
Try clicking "full", and also "contents". Did that help ?
Zope & Plone lead examples in VARBusiness? -- Fri, 20 Aug 2004 12:22:59 -0700 reply
Raising the profile of Zope and Plone for businesses can most effectivey be done by getting business information system integrators, aka VARs? (Value Added Resellers) aware of the advantages of Zope. Eweek, an open-source friendly and enterprise-oriented Ziff-Davis publication, gave Plone a very valuable plug in March; now VARBusiness?, a publication many U.S. VARs? have relied on (since the original IBM PC-AT days, as I recall) for help when trying to decide amongst alternative business technology partners, has featured Zope especially as an example of the leading "second-generation of open-source software companies".
"Consider Zope, a content-management system downloaded tens of thousands of times per month free of charge, according to Zope CEO Rob Page. Some believe Zope and applications built with Zope are better than the commercial alternative they threaten to put out of business, Documentum. Zope is also often used to help build additional open-source applications. One such example is Plone, an open-source information-management system."
...
Lead paragraph under heading, "Beyond LAMP":
"Not only are [open source products]? brought to market in a manner different from the norm, they are also being developed differently. Take Zope for example. Unlike Microsoft's Longhorn, the next generation of the Windows operating system, Zope 3x is being trickled out bits and pieces at a time so users and developers alike can try out parts of the technology. Whereas Microsoft fans will have to wait for Longhorn to come out all at once, Zope users will be familiar with many of the benefits of Zope3x as the full-fledged version of the software finally makes it's debut. While its important to note the difference in scale and complexity of the products, the distinction is relevant, nontheless."
SOURCE: print edition, p. 32 of "How Open Source Stacks Up" by T. C. Doyle, VARBusiness?, XX: 17 [August 9, 2004]?, pp. 32-36. Also, online somewhere easily searchable at http://www.varbusiness.com
Zope in VARBusiness? article links -- Fri, 20 Aug 2004 13:52:58 -0700 reply
Full text of previously mentioned article freely available online at http://www.varbusiness.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=26805596&flatPage=true
Another significant mention of Zope in VarBusiness? includes:
"Zope Gives Java Competition" by Luc Hatlestad, in a July 30, 2003 issue, online at http://www.varbusiness.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=18839578&flatPage=true
POLL: enable mail features on zopewiki.org ? --simon, Tue, 24 Aug 2004 16:20:26 -0700 reply
Hi. What do you think of any or all of these:
- allow people to subscribe to ZopeWikiDiscussion?, only, to facilitate zopewiki discussion by mail
- allow people to reply/send comments by mail to ZopeWikiDiscussion?, for convenience
- allow people to subscribe to the whole wiki and receive all edits by mail - for spam monitoring, etc.
- allow people to send mail to any page - making it easier to collect useful content (but who will clean it up)
- don't bother, keep it simple the way it is
There'd be no mailing list at this point, so no digest mode and perhaps occasional mail duplicates. "people" means everyone; could also be "some people".
One mail feature is already active: if you send mail containing one or more spam urls to spam at zopewiki.org,
those links will be added to the banned_links list.
POLL: enable mail features on zopewiki.org ? --Racing Pitoune, Tue, 24 Aug 2004 17:14:12 -0700 reply
Point 3. (receive all edits by mail) Definitely not a good idea, IMO (I've activated this property on my intranet). Making everyone or even some people monitor all edits could easily generate a bit of a workload for a lot of people:-)
POLL: enable mail features on zopewiki.org ? --d2m, Wed, 25 Aug 2004 04:52:40 -0700 reply
Point 3. how about creating another RSS feed for edits (this needs just a minor change to a copy of the ZopeWikiRSS? page and another dtml-method to call it through the web) - that way you won't fill up your mailbox and get alerted on edits. what do you think ?
Poll#3: Update --d2m, Wed, 25 Aug 2004 12:10:29 -0700 reply
you can use the rss-feed already at http://zopewiki.org/rssedits
CMF/Plone requirements --d2m, Tue, 31 Aug 2004 10:23:10 -0700 reply
think we need to go through all CMFxxx? named Products guide and have a look at the requirements pages. Almost all depend on Plone. And there will even more CMFxxx? named products, as usage of Plone in the product name is said to be guarded by PloneFoundation? in the future.
Need Pagenames displayed in word-split-mode --d2m, Tue, 07 Sep 2004 03:07:59 -0700 reply
googleing for "zope apache" did not bring up http://zopewiki.org/Zope and Apache within the first 650 hits - this is really bad, as i consider this page the best-of-current docs on that topic. only reason i can think of is the documents title: "zopewiki.org Zope and Apache". I have seen on zwiki.org that pagenames are split in title string - i propose to change zopewiki.org accordingly.
Need Pagenames displayed in word-split-mode --simon, Wed, 08 Sep 2004 07:55:09 -0700 reply
The split names are now included in the keywords meta header, and the summary is included in the description meta header. We're waiting to see if google uses these.
outage, upgrade --simon, Thu, 09 Sep 2004 07:27:41 -0700 reply
Site outage last night, zope upgraded to 2.7.2, see http://zwiki.org/UserDiscussion#msg20040909072506-0700@zwiki.org .
Need Pagenames displayed in word-split-mode --DeanG?, Thu, 30 Sep 2004 16:45:33 -0700 reply
In the case of Zope and Apache, changing the name to Zope And Apache would preserve the URL and WikiName?, while benefitting search results. This is a bit of a short answre to a bigger issue, but might make for interesting google rank experiementation, at least...
Need Pagenames displayed in word-split-mode --simon, Fri, 01 Oct 2004 13:23:31 -0700 reply
Did the new headers:
<meta name="keywords" content="Zope And Apache" />
<meta name="description"
content="Running Zope with Apache" />
have any effect I wonder ? Apparently not.
Congratulation ! -- Thu, 28 Oct 2004 07:10:30 -0700 reply
This Website is Fantastic !
Ubuntu starter pages.. -- Thu, 18 Nov 2004 22:06:03 -0800 reply
http://zopewiki.org/SearchPage?expr=ubuntu :-(
Will someone create place-holders/starter pages for: UbuntuWiki? , Zope on/and? Ubuntu, ???
Ubuntu starter pages.. --d2m, Fri, 19 Nov 2004 03:37:09 -0800 reply
is there anything special with Zope and Ubuntu ?
Ubuntu starter pages.. --DeanG?, Fri, 19 Nov 2004 08:18:08 -0800 reply
I would hope that a ZopeOnUbuntu? page could contain little more than a ZopeOnDebian link, but as Ubuntu is tracking (using) with Plone/Zwiki more aggressively than Debian, perhaps there's more specific notes on packages, building, etc.
server tuning --simon, Tue, 23 Nov 2004 07:16:13 -0800 reply
Some work in progress at ZWiki:MemoryUsage .
user options have been reset --d2m, Mon, 06 Dec 2004 20:35:08 -0800 reply
you may need to fill-in the formZope 2 wiki/useroptions again
user options have been reset -- Thu, 23 Dec 2004 16:03:57 -0800 reply
I noticed myself at www.zopewiki.org/Zope 2 wiki/useroptions yesterday, which has different options cookies from zopewiki.org. Perhaps this is what you saw ? Apache should be configured to redirect to zopewiki.org.
ioerror, recent changes fixed -- Thu, 23 Dec 2004 16:06:19 -0800 reply
Some requests were getting IO errors today due to the disk being full. Also recent changes had stopped updating, perhaps due to this. Updating the catalog in ZMI seems to have fixed it.
user options have been reset --simon, Thu, 23 Dec 2004 16:23:14 -0800 reply
Apache should be configured to redirect to zopewiki.org.
Done.