Wikispooks:Technical

This section of WikiSpooks pages is abou the software used to run this site.

Site Backup

Full article: Project:Site Backup

WikiSpooks is backed up weekly and full backups are published here (~2.5GB download). This includes all the files needed to run a copy of the site on your own webserver. The site is open licensed (CC-A-SA) and you are encouraged to distribute this information widely.

Software

Full article: Special:Version

The core of the Wikispooks site runs MediaWiki version 1.33.2, augmented with quite a wide variety of extensions. For overview of which versions of which extensions are installed, see Special:Version.

Semantic MediaWiki

Full article: WikiSpooks:Semantic Mediawiki

Semantic MediaWiki is one of the most important (and complex) MediaWiki extensions used by this site. The aim is to take the site beyond simple processing of human readable text by marking up the information contained in WikiSpooks as RDF (a machine readable format).

Site Feeds

Full article: WikiSpooks:Site feeds

WikiSpooks has a number of site feeds (currently in Atom/RSS format) which may help you integrate it with other software.

Timelines

Full article: WikiSpooks:Timelines

Peter is working on adding timeline functionality to the site. This gives a graphic display of events and sub events.

Uploading

Full article: WikiSpooks:File Uploads

For security reasons, the number of file formats which are uploadable is limited. This article lists the permitted extensions. Note that Anonymous Uploads use a different system and are not restricted in this way.

Contact

Full article: WikiSpooks:PGP Public Key

When contacting the site administrator by Email, you are recommended to use this PGP key.

Sandboxes

Sandbox page - A Sandbox page on this wiki. Ideal for experimenting with wikitext editing.
Sandbox wiki - A separate Sandbox wiki for prototyping of templates, forms, javascript gizmos etc.