The L.A. Times reported yesterday that in an unanimous decision, the Los Angeles City Counsel chose to move close to 30,000 city employees – the entire L.A. public service system – to Google’s GMail e-mail provider. This makes L.A. the largest city in the nation to make the move to Google Apps.
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This isn’t the kind of post I had intended this blog to be for, but if I limited myself to things only of literary intrigue, I’d almost never post.
Some time ago Boone Gorges over at the CUNY Academic Commons built a way of integrating mediawiki and buddypress’s activity stream. Together with his single sign-on method, this allowed media wiki to appear almost seamlessly with WPMU/BP. Unfortunately, styling mediawiki leaves a great deal to be desired. Not wanting to maintain multiple themes across multiple platforms I hacked together the following mediawiki theme.
It’s a stripped down theme, with almost no style itself. It’s designed to inherit as much as possible from your active WPMU theme, including your header with navigation, and your footer.
This version… let’s call it 1.5.d… was built for the upgrade of Dig Humanities- see, version 1.5 for the upgrade, with a “d” for digital, and you thought I just pulled that out of the air.
Installation:
Please note that this is designed to work with a media wiki installation that is installed in the root directory of your server (or at least, installed into the same folder as WPMU). If you’re not sure, the folder containing all the mediawiki files should be in the same directory as the “wp-content”, and “wp-includes” folder. It -might- work with the wiki installed in another place, but I’m not promising anything…
Change log:
Improved compatibility for WPMU 2.8 to 2.8.4
Improved compatibility for BP 1.1
Now supports BP themes with 100% wide background, header, and footer elements
Improved CSS compatibility for inherited theme style
Removed most background styles to prevent awkward colors
Minor bug fixes
Please note that this is fairly unsupported. I’m up to my ears in getting the Digital Humanities site going, this update came as a byproduct of that and little more. For more information about media wiki integration see this post on the BP forums: http://buddypress.org/forums/topic/mediawiki-edits-bp-activity-streams#post-19017
Thanks, if you have any questions let me know, I’ll see what I can do.
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Aaron