[pmwiki-users] Tracking
Joachim Durchholz
jo at durchholz.org
Tue Sep 26 04:34:53 CDT 2006
Mark Trumpold schrieb:
> 1. How do I track traffic to my wiki that is hosted on my website
That's the web server's task. Simply have it count the traffic from/to
http://your.hostname.here/path/to/pmwiki .
> 2. How do I set it up to track IP addreses of editors
I'm somewhat fuzzy about the details, but IIRC it's already logged but
not displayed, and there's a way to see the data. Try searching for
RecentChanges in the PmWiki docs, IIRC it's a feature of that mechanism.
> 3. How do I put a discussion page for the editors before they make major
> edits
Most of this works by convention. I.e. on pmwiki.org, we've had
instances where people set up a Foo-Discuss page when there was
substantial refactoring for Foo underway. Those Discuss pages are
regularly taken down again once the original page is updated though.
(In general, if you have a group of people with real-life social
influences, you don't need the software to enforce rules. Plus, the
downside of software-enforced rules is that they typically are far too
rigid and make working with it far less fun.)
> PS I hope that pmwiki will live on and not just stop like some of the
> others!!!
Even if development stopped, the existing software would continue to run
just fine. Off the top of my head, I can't think of anything that is
really lacking in PmWiki, though there's always a lot of things that
could be done.
That said, unless PM gets run over by a bus, I don't think he'll stop
development anytime soon. He has carried the project through at least
one major rewrite, and has been providing a steady stream of incremental
updates over the past years. There's currently no sign that this would
change.
That said, there's still a grain of salt: PmWiki's core is organized
around a single-person development model. Should PM drop out tomorrow,
the PmWiki core would have no clear model for continued development.
Note that this isn't as bad as it may sound. First, PmWiki is GPL, so
there's always a chance that a capable person takes over. Second, this
would affect only the core; recipe development would still be done by
the community, and you can do almost anything with a recipe in PmWiki.
Regards,
Jo
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