[FSUG-Bangalore] About Website (oddmuse/mediawiki) & style - Arky, help

[Shashi]

The css is here http://zodiac08.110mb.com/wiki.css

On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 5:37 PM, Shashi <connect2shashi at gmail.com> wrote:
> quoting http://bangalore.gnu.org.in/?Things_To_Do i'd tell you to go
> for oddmuse for it is lightweight and more or completely flexible I've
> tried to understand the MediaWiki source code which is next to
> impossible the only people on the planet who may know how to hack it
> to do anything i bet are those who founded MediaWiki.... Oddmuse is
> easier to understand less bulky and too flexible if you were worrying
> about the aesthetic feel the site has lost due to Oddmuse
> I've made a css that will make you reluctant to use MediaWiki! Here
> are some screenshots I took after running the css
> http://www.orkut.co.in/AlbumZoom.aspx?uid=17149210454281460330&pid=1218186005070&aid=1218160761#pid=1218186002585
> Oddmuse also uses flat file storage while mediawiki uses MySQL it is
> difficul to migrate and to hack even the skin it uses... OddMuse is
> straight forward and no nonsense wiki engine...
> # Easy to use for users, easy to hack for programmers.
> # Capable of multilingual sites.
> # Unicode (UTF-8) per default.
> # Valid HTML; CSS friendly.
> these are lines on the oddmuse site i go with...
> http://www.oddmuse.org/cgi-bin/oddmuse/Project_Organization
>
> I need some more help.. in this page's code
> http://bangalore.gnu.org.in/?search=arky&dosearch=Go! the results are
> not put in a common html <div  class="wraporsomethin"></div> this
> makes it not go with the CSS layout i made i need help of whoever has
> access to the wiki.pl code to hack this to print the wrapping div...
>
> About the content licensing I'd suggest GNU FDL.. and recommend you to
> read it frst.
> It's been a day after i joined the mailing list and orkut comm. I'm
> not feeling comfortable about asking you access to the source code of
> the site... pls reply
> --
> Shashi
> http://connect2shashi.blogspot.com
>



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Shashi
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