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The LocalWiki backend server is a Django-based mostly Python project that powers localwiki.org. You’ll probably want to get ...
LocalWiki Backend Server
All major features will have a page on this site. Here are all in-progress features: List of pages ...
Planning
There's a few different ways to make the LocalWiki more mobile friendly. Major possible approaches are: Make the ...
Mobile
Brain dumps. Add yours! See the Planning page for something much more coherent. Usability testing Showing changes Search ...
Big mess of ideas
Timeline
Stuff we're building on: Python. Excellent book is dive into python. For those who learn by doing, learn ...
LocalWiki backend server knowledge prerequisites
Autogenerated Front Page
See the Mobile page for some background. Current status: Work being done in the responsive branch. See the ...
Responsive design
Better user pages
We should, at some point, allow for offline with the HTML 5 localStorage API. Editing, saving, syncing should ...
HTML 5 localStorage
2011-7-26 Notes from usability testing with a friend. She had never really actively used a wiki before and ...
Usability testing
Hampedia get map points extracted fix table-inside-table rendering issue with the template import http://ec2-184-169-214-229.us-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com/Abigail_Hunter all external links seemed ...
Importing legacy wiki engines/MediaWiki Problems
While simple request / response "AJAX" and long-polling may do the trick for most of the things we ...
Real-time components
Notes Look at LocalSolr. http://groups.google.com/group/django-haystack/browse_thread/thread/5424b2e8748ae70b/56faf3ec2a744126?lnk=gst&q=geo&pli=1 haystack-wise, there's this guy's repos: https://github.com/sidmitra/django-haystack ( see http://groups.google.com/group/django-haystack/browse_thread/thread/d0e23d45c0baa300/2298b6cf43389e18, http://groups.google.com/group/django-haystack/browse_thread/thread/e3a70112ce944b00/ba7d3f264405ca25) some info here: ...
Search
Authorization / permissions is handed via the Django admin, django-guardian and some customizations.
Authorization and permissions
Users/eekiv
This page is for development notes on the i18n process. Creating a new translation LocalWiki has full UI ...
i18n
I am creating this page as a discussion assignment for ISTM5004-01-u04d2. I have many email addresses but the ...
Users/LLB
NOTE: this is just a brain dump very useful for local level. connection between real world and internet ...
Reputation notes
For now, please see the API documentation here.
API
We could extract all the interesting nodes that already exist in the Open Street Map planet database (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Planet.osm). ...
OSM nodes import
Describe Users/EdwardVielmetti here Testing a link: http://www.amtrak.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=am/am2Station/Station_Page&code=ARB Testing a link: ARB station
Users/EdwardVielmetti
Contact info Twitter @brousch Email
[email protected]
Users/brousch
This page is for figuring out what the future of internationalization on the new LocalWiki platform will be. ...
Future i18n
Tags tags, we have tags! Future ideas Use tags on the map as a filtering / layering system ...
Tagging
LocalWiki uses GeoJSON in our API. GeoJSON export? vielmetti says: I'm trying to come up with an export ...
GeoJSON
Describe Users/Stephen here
Users/Stephen
Roll back all changes since a certain date: First run localwiki-manage shell. In the shell, run this, setting ...
Mass rollback
Users/tvetter
Founder of http://lansingwiki.org I am also sincerely and seriously hoping to add a couple of improvements to localwiki ...
Users/samrose
I was able to get the backend server running on pypy with some effort. It doesn't seem to ...
PyPy
Misc notes Create an EBS snapshot of the two EBS volumes on wikispot.org. Create an AWS image of ...
DavisWiki (sycamore) import notes
This is pretty sweet.
Users/gleitz
http://seattlewiki.net/users/bfaloona
Users/bfaloona
Permissions A region has a set of admins, and that set are allowed to set permissions on pages, ...
LocalWiki permission model
Users/Payo
This page needs more details. Examples of cool map stuff we'd want to be able to do here ...
Geo stuff
Write anything you'd like about yourself here! Contact info Twitter www.gyfnice.info Facebook Email
Users/gyfnice
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