| | 1 | = Adding a wiki to a project = |
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| | 3 | BOINC projects can, if they choose, add a wiki to the project website, |
| | 4 | using !MediaWiki, the same software used by the Wikipedia. |
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| | 6 | Project administrators can easily control who is allowed to read or edit the wiki, |
| | 7 | based on special user status (eg. being an admin or moderator) or based on credit, recent or total. |
| | 8 | (Wikipedia chooses to allow editing by anybody as a matter of policy, not because it's built into the software). |
| | 9 | Thus it would be possible for project scientists to use the wiki to create documentation about the project, |
| | 10 | which the project volunteeers could read but not edit. |
| | 11 | Or it would be possible to allow some or all of the project volunteers to edit the wiki. |
| | 12 | It's up to the project to decide how to use the tool. |
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| | 14 | To add a wiki to your project you need simply to install !MediaWiki |
| | 15 | (under the html directory is a good place, but the location doesn't matter) |
| | 16 | and then add to that the "BOINC Authentication" extension, |
| | 17 | which automatically logs people in to the wiki based on already being logged in to the BOINC project. |
| | 18 | There are two sample policy files available to show you how to easily adjust the automatic access controls. |
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| | 20 | The BOINC Authentication extension for !MediaWiki is documented at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:BOINC_Authentication |
