Setting up a simple Wiki...

> Hi!
>
> I am planning to set up a simple wiki for personal use (noting my  
> tasks, thoughts, etc.) and maybe more. I decided to
> use SmallWiki, as it seems to work really fine in practice  
> (www.squeak.org is very nice). At first I tried Pier, but it
> was a bit complicated for me, as I am not familiar with Seaside and  
> I really don't want to develop web applications. So
> I downloaded the SmallWiki prepared image from http://
> homepage.mac.com/jborden23/FileSharing3.html. Loading from
> SqueakMap to 3.9 did not really work out (getting a dependency  
> message and after ignoring it getting another error on a
> non-existing method in Monticello?). The prepared image is a Squeak  
> 3.7 one and works just fine but I did run into
> troubles when trying to configure SmallWiki. So here are some  
> questions, maybe you can help me:
>
> 1.) I don't really understand the difference between roles and  
> users. If I enter the wiki, I have automatically anonymous
> role? Why can't I edit any page then?
>
> 2.) I tried to protect a page, that should not be viewable by other  
> users then admin. I executed the script I found in the
> SmallWiki FAQ:
>
> (server root at: 'Secret')
> roles: (OrderedCollection
> with: (BasicRole name: 'anonymous'))  " this role has no  
> permissions "
>
> but I could still access the page when I normally entered it  
> without any login. Am I doing something wrong?
>
> 3.) How can I remove actions (RSS for example) from the upper right  
> corner?
>
> I think that's pretty much it. I would appreciate any help. Thanks  
> in advance,
>
> Elod
>
>
>

> If you'd like something simple, why not just download and run Swiki?
>
> You can get it here:
> http://wiki.squeak.org/swiki/
>
> I just started doing just that myself, moving all of my work notes and
> the million OS X sticky notes into  the Swiki. It starts up at bootup
> on my Mac and runs in the background.
>
> Regards,
> Aaron
>
> On Jan 26, 2007, at 6:54 AM, Elod Kironsky wrote:
>
>> Hi!
>>
>> I am planning to set up a simple wiki for personal use (noting my
>> tasks, thoughts, etc.) and maybe more. I decided to
>> use SmallWiki, as it seems to work really fine in practice
>> (www.squeak.org is very nice). At first I tried Pier, but it
>> was a bit complicated for me, as I am not familiar with Seaside and I
>> really don't want to develop web applications. So
>> I downloaded the SmallWiki prepared image from
>> http://homepage.mac.com/jborden23/FileSharing3.html. Loading from
>> SqueakMap to 3.9 did not really work out (getting a dependency
>> message and after ignoring it getting another error on a
>> non-existing method in Monticello?). The prepared image is a Squeak
>> 3.7 one and works just fine but I did run into
>> troubles when trying to configure SmallWiki. So here are some
>> questions, maybe you can help me:
>>
>> 1.) I don't really understand the difference between roles and users.
>> If I enter the wiki, I have automatically anonymous
>> role? Why can't I edit any page then?
>>
>> 2.) I tried to protect a page, that should not be viewable by other
>> users then admin. I executed the script I found in the
>> SmallWiki FAQ:
>>
>> (server root at: 'Secret')
>>     roles: (OrderedCollection
>>         with: (BasicRole name: 'anonymous'))  " this role has no
>> permissions "
>>
>> but I could still access the page when I normally entered it without
>> any login. Am I doing something wrong?
>>
>> 3.) How can I remove actions (RSS for example) from the upper right
>> corner?
>>
>> I think that's pretty much it. I would appreciate any help. Thanks in
>> advance,
>>
>> Elod
>>
>>
>>
>
>