Wiki Admin Discussion
Hi David, thanks for your note regarding the session duration for the Wiki. The default CWL session duration time is 15 minutes, which is done because of the risk of people using public machines on campus and forgetting to log out of their accounts. We've upped the session duration to 1 hour for the wiki. To extend it longer than that will require some more in-depth policy conversations and planning on our end. It is something I would like to look into, but it will might be a while before a longer change is implemented. I hope this helps - please let me know if I can answer any questions or provide further info.
Best,
Will - WikiAdministrator 20:22, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
Many thanks for clearing things up for me Will, I'll let you know if I have further questions!
-DavidKohler 03:55, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi David, thanks for the note about the broken link - this is a bit of an odd one. It looks like you had written the following syntax for the link: [[Course:MATH110/003/Homework | homework]]. For some reason, in the link, it looks like the wiki software was reading the space after the word "Homework" and before vertical slash mark as an extra character. This character didn't exist in the name of the page, so it thought the link was to a different page. I deleted the space and the link appears to be working. Normally, the wiki software ignores spaces at the ends of links, so I'm not entirely sure what is causing this behaviour. Thanks for bringing this to my attention - I will spend some time trying to replicate the problem to see what is actually happening. In the meantime, please let me know if that solves the problem for now, or if I was addressing the wrong link.
Best,
Will - WikiAdministrator 14:54, 1 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi David, thanks for your questions. I just wanted to drop you a note to let you know that I am out of the office but that I'll respond in-depth to your questions in the next couple of days. The quick answer to the first question is that there is no easy way to provide rights for you to delete pages. Page deletions is something that the MediaWiki platform makes into a bit of a difficult task and only users with a super admin rights (which extend across all of the UBC Wiki) can actually delete anything. You can add the script {{delete}} to a page and, as long as no one contests the deletion, the page will be deleted in about a month. If you need pages to be deleted quicker than that, you can let me know or you can send an email to wikisupport@exchange.ubc.ca and we can take care of it for you.
As far as the DPL question, it seems like it should be possible but I'll have to take a closer look to see how to do it. I'll follow up with you in a day or two.
Best,
Will - WikiAdministrator 22:04, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi David,
Here's what I came up with regarding creating a list of top level subpages via dpl:
<dpl> titlematch=MATH110/003/% nottitlematch=MATH110/003/%/% replaceintitle=$MATH110/003/$, namespace=Course shownamespace=false columns=3 rowcolformat=width=30% includesubpages=true </dpl>
which generates this list:
Please let me know if this is the functionality for which you were looking. I know that you have some familiarity with dpl but please also let me know if I can explain this a bit more.
Best,
Will - WikiAdministrator 20:13, 20 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi Will, this is great! It's exactly what I wanted. Those are the name commands I couldn't find and I didn't know the use of the $ symbol, many thanks! -- DavidKohler 20:20, 20 October 2010 (UTC)