AdminToDo

This page is to keep track of ideas and tasks for administering and maintaining the various Code4Lib sites. Also can be used for listing people involved or any progress made.

Code4Lib.org (Drupal 4)

• Upgrade to Drupal 7
  • is it wise to attempt this before the conference?
    • Not a problem. It is fairly trivial. This was probably posted before C4L 2011 or possibly C4L 2010. We have plenty of time before C4L 2012.
  • can one go from 4 to 7 directly?
    • There are intermediate steps, which I can script, but considering the scope of the site, it might be quicker to just import it into the new version. I have done many upgrades, and don't see any issues.
• Add plugin for managing users such as Userplus?
  • • Much of what that module does in built in to Drupal 7
• Add ReCaptcha plugin for managing spam?
  • may not be worth the setup, as spam accounts have died down and now wickr gets emails on new accounts so it's easier to watch
    • We could use that or Mollom or the local captcha module.
• Single Sign On for other sites.
  • CAS Server? OpenID/OAuth? Something else?
    • OpenID is built in and doable. The others seem out of scope.
• Do more with profiles or directory of people on the site
  • • definitely doable

Cary Gordon (aka highermath, aka me) has proposed to do this. The site as it sits is not really secure.

Wiki (Mediawiki 1.16)

• Upgrade to Mediawiki 1.20 (requires PHP upgrade)
• Remove /index.php/ from URLs
  • difficult to have inclusive rewrite rules which hit articles but leave wiki working files alone
  • wickr tried http://www.delphster.net/?p=117 it kinda worked but broke other stuff
  • more options at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Short_URL but nothing that stands out yet
• Add plugin for code syntax highlighting - http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi
  • SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi is no longer compatible with 1.11, despite what the Extension page says
• reduce space around logo: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:FAQ#Reducing_the_size_of_the_logo
• add more links to navigation menu on left
• Check out http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Vote
• Look at more/new spamfighting tools
  • http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SpamBlacklist
  • http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:TitleBlacklist
  • http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Combating_spam
  • http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Anti-spam_features
  • http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AbuseFilter
  • https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Secretaribot

Plugins

• TitleBlacklist (1.4.2) (1.19 extension snapshot)
• Nuke (1.1.1)
• Semantic MediaWiki (1.4.2)
• ReCAPTCHA (1.7)

Planet (Planet 2.0)

• Switch/Upgrade to Venus?

• Once we update the website, we could roll planet into it.