Team:ETH Zurich/Tools/Automated Wiki
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== Motivation == | == Motivation == | ||
- | At the beginning of our project planning phase we were also thinking about how to | + | At the beginning of our project planning phase we were also thinking about how to deal with the wiki. |
One major shortcoming showed up when we were browsing the wikis of previous iGEM competitions - a lot of them simply didn't work anymore.<br> | One major shortcoming showed up when we were browsing the wikis of previous iGEM competitions - a lot of them simply didn't work anymore.<br> | ||
Revision as of 00:11, 28 October 2008
MotivationAt the beginning of our project planning phase we were also thinking about how to deal with the wiki.
One major shortcoming showed up when we were browsing the wikis of previous iGEM competitions - a lot of them simply didn't work anymore. The problem is that large parts of the old wikis are stored on external servers- e.g. JavaScript menus that are actully stored on students' private homepages.
As you can see, the .js file is stored on an external server meaning that as soon as this file is gone, the whole wiki page won't work anymore, because the navigation is gone. This year's situationWhen we then started to think of ways how to design the wiki, it turned out that the persons responsible for this wiki are aware of the situation, because embedding any external content into a wiki page did not seem to work anymore.
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How to overcome this situationWhile the reasons why external content should not be allowed on the wiki were obvious, we still didn't want to settle with "just" using the regular wiki editing. The automated wikiFor an example of a page generated with the automated wiki click here Why we didn't use it in the endThere were two reasons why we didn't use the automated wiki in the end.
DownloadMedia:ETH Auto wiki.zip Keep in mind that the development of this tool stopped in the middle of the project. However, you might be able to use some ideas/parts of it. |