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User Management

  • Special:Userlogin - Follow "Create an account" link.
    • Supply UserName, Full Name, and Email address, then click on "By email" link.
    • Attempt to create the new users initial page, describing who they are.
  • Special:Listusers - List of current users and their rights.
    • mysql -u root --password=$sp -D $DB -e "SELECT user_id,user_name,user_real_name,user_email FROM sevawiki_user;"
  • Special:Userrights - Change users rights and permissions.
  • User:WikiAdmin/Preferences - New user orientation page.

Namespace


Special:Interwiki Management - Interwiki Help

Use http://www.eaa-phev.org/wiki/index.php?flushcache to flush this servers cache.

  • /etc/php4/apache/php.ini
    • post_max_size = 80M
    • upload_max_filesize = 80M
Used to look like this
  • Nested menus patches
    • Nested menus are working in MonoBook and CologneBlue based skins...
    • Changes made to includes/Skin.php, skins/MonoBook.php, skins/CologneBlue.php, skins/common/cologneblue.css, skins/monobook/main.css, and custom skin.

Licenses

SMF Forums

Simple Machine Forum software was put into production on June 12th 2008 and is accessable via http://www.seattleeva.org/smf. The Forums Discussion page was used to discuss and vet the implementation of new Forums services for SEVA.

Mods to evaluate

Feature Requests

These are some features that I would like to implement within the smf forum software.

  • A read only Category/Board with which to archive maillist messages.
  • A weekly digest of all forum activity which can be sent to the maillist.

Categories and Boards

In each Category-Board create a sticky post linking into related articles on the wiki!

  • General Category
    • <a href=http://www.seattleeva.org/wiki/Forums_Discussion>Please refer to Forums Discussion</a>
      Go Back to the Wiki to find out what this Forum is all about.
      Guest access, Read Only Link back to wiki, until a more appropriate site services menu is deployed.
    • General Discussion
      If you can't find an appropriate Category or Board this is the place for you.
    • Local Businesses
      A place for local EV businesses to talk about their products and services.
    • Maillist Archive
      A read only archive of the maillist for easier indexing and searching.
    • Events and SEVA Minutes
      A place to organize and discuss past and future EVents.
       !+Lock+Stick "See also the <a href=http://seattleeva.org/wiki/Current_events>Wiki:Current events</a> page."
  • Battery Electric Vehicles (BEV or just EV)
    • Production Electric Vehicles
      Talk about Production Electric Vehicles by major or minor auto makers.
    • Electric Vehicle Conversions
      Talk about EV Conversions, the highest form of automobile recycling.
    • Hybrids and Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicles (HEV and PHEV)
      Talk about stock Hybrids, PHEV's, and PHEV Conversions.
    • Neighborhood Electric Vehicles (NEV)
      Talk about low speed EVs that are not freeway capable.
    • Electric Motorcycles and other unique high speed vehicles.
      Talk about Motorcycles, Narrow, 3-wheel, or other miscellaneous full speed vehicles.
    • Electric Bicycles, Scooters, and mopeds.
      Talk about electric bikes and other low speed two or three wheel vehicles.
    • EV Racing and the National Electric Drag Racing Assoc (NEDRA)
      Talk about EV's of all shapes and sizes that go fast on or off the race track.
  • EV Components and Hardware
    • Electric Motors
      The electric equivalent to a gas Internal Combustion Engine (ICE).
    • Motor Speed Controllers
      The electric equivalent of the carburetor and ignition system.
    • Battery Chargers and Battery Management Systems (BMS)
      The electric equivalent of the fuel port and gas station pump.
    • Traction Batteries
      The electric equivalent of the fuel tank and it's fuel.
    • Miscellaneous Parts
      Other stuff like wiring, fuses, gages, DC-DC, AC, heaters, structural, etc...

Initial Settings

Be sure to add the SEVA Google Analytics Urchin code block somewhere within the global theme...

Add these lines to Themes/default/Themes.template.php before the line // Show the [home] button.

// Add a link to wiki site, inactive

//echo '<a href="http://www.seattleeva.org/wiki">SEVA wiki home</a>';

// Add a link to wiki site, active

//echo '  //<a href="http://www.seattleeva.org/wiki">SEVA wiki home</a> ';

// Add a link to wiki site, active link and in it's own maintab bar

echo ' 

<a href="http://www.seattleeva.org/wiki"><img style="clear:left; float:left;" src="/skins/monobook/mw-21x15.png"

height=15> SEVA wiki home</a> '; echo ' '; echo ' ';

Add a rss feed link to subscribe to all categories.

// Show an rss feed link for all categories

echo '<a href="/smf/index.php?action=.xml;sa=recent;limit=100;type=rss2"> <img style="clear:left; float:left;" src="/smf/Themes/default/images/rss.gif">  RSS All</a>'; Add this to enhance the Forums own "Home" link. // Modify the "Home" button text $txt[103] = '<img style="clear:left; float:left;" src="/smf/Themes/default/images/new_some.gif" height=15>  SEVA Forums Home';

  • News
  • Features - Basic
    • Enable Poll,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,,300
    • enable (stats, views, logging)
    • require reactivation
    • 1,1,1,1
    • 800,600
    • 1,10,45,20
  • Features - Layout
    • 1,5,today & yesterday,1,1,1,90,1,0,1
  • Features - Karma
    • enable karma +&-,0,1,1
  • Server - Core
    • Title:Seattle Electric Vehicle Association (SEVA) Forums
    • Webmaster Email:webguy2008@seattleeva.org
  • Server - Features
    • enable compressed output
    • use database driven sessions
  • Server - Cache
    • Yes, install some caching!
  • Theme - settings for default
    • recent posts on index:5
    • who is viewing:show member names
    • 1,1,1,1,1,0,1,1,1,1,1,?,5000,1,1,1,1,0,0
  • Board - Construct Categories and Boards per above list
    • Settings:give moderators permission, count child posts.
  • Posts
    • code: enable basic html
    • Censored: Use it to convert works into wiki links perhaps?
    • Topic settings:1,1,...,Max topics:150,enable prev/next links
  • Calendar
    • Enable, set perm (all,mem+mod,mem+mod,mod),1,0,7,all,all,all,EVents Board,1,1,...,span days,7
  • Search, consider search indexes in the future
    • Settings: perm(all),1,30,0
  • Attachments - Settings
    • all,0,,1,default,512000,10240,10240,10,1,1,300,300
  • Attachments - Avatars
    • perm(all),perm(all),download at given url,perm(all),65,65,1,1,ataachment dir
  • Members and groups, defaults for now, but we can create new groups
  • Registration - New - Require user to activate the account
  • Registration - Settings
    • Member activation,1,1,medium,medium,13,reject(COPPA compliance, we reject registration of minors)
  • Permissions - Settings
    • enable permissions for post count based groups. (additive to "regular members")
    • allow global moderators to manage permissions.
  • Permissions - by membergroup Might not apply these unless there is a problem with attachments
    • Modify Regular Members - Remove Post attachment permissions.
    • Modify Jr. Members(50 posts) - Add Post attachment permissions.

Software to Evaluate

Here are some forum applications to look into:

  • phpbb (phpbb2 is an available ubuntu package) phpbb3 is also available.
  • PunBB[1] is a fast and lightweight PHP-powered discussion board.
  • Simple Machines Forum SMF is a free, professional grade software package for online community.

A maillist to forum conduit which may come in handy for integrating the maillist into the forum:

Also available at the server but not in use by SEVA:

  • wordpress is already installed and in use at the server at other domain names.

Just an handy site for looking into CMS:

  • CMS Matrix A list of various CMS (Content Management Systems)