Re: SmallWiki suggestion - smallwiki

16 Oct 2003

Hi Michele,

...
  PS. Let's give it a try: on the 'Changes'
page of the Swiki I would 
 like to see who made the changes by listing either an IP address and 
 some machine info (Swiki does it like that) or (hmm.. ;-) even better: 
 The 'Role' of the Person editing the page (was it the creator, a 
 maintainer, a (supposedly) read-only person, or some stranger). The 
 information should be displayed in a nice table (perhaps on a 
 on-the-fly generated page) when I inspect the changes. (This could be 
 pushed even further in case a SmallWiki is highly used: an automatic 
 'hacker' detector which correlates some information (for example 
 consistent uploads etc.) and triggers automatic defense mechanisms 
 like making the Swiki unreadable.. ;-\) 
the problem here is that this information is not collected right now, 
but of course one could add it easily. I am usually adding that kind of 
things when there is the need, but right now I am on holiday, therefor 
you have to implement it for yourself or wait a few weeks.

...
  PPS. You have to protect the top-page (which is the
admin page) of the 
 current Smallwiki on kilana by means of a password or something like 
 that. 
The top-page (it is actually a folder) is no different to other pages. 
If one wants to simulate the SWiki behavior it is possible to protect 
it, of course, but I try to keep everything as open as possible and 
just protect the things that might harm your system per default.

Cheers,
Lukas

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Lukas Renggli
http://renggli.freezope.org