Instructions for use

For users

• Regular users (authorized people from centers of Italian culture and language) can have a page in the form

  https://culturaitaliana.org/wiki/[language]/[name of center] and whatever subpage within it. A subpage is a page below the main page after the slash, for instance https://culturaitaliana.org/wiki/[language]/[name of center]/articles and they can be arbitrarily nested.

  Other pages or subpages of this wiki are protected from editing when they do not belong to the organization to which the logged in user is affiliated. An exception, are the contents created using the forms "Add announcement", "Add book suggestion", or any other content created by forms. (i.e., not through the standard buttons "edit" or "edit source" button on the page). If you wish to edit the common pages and to collaborate with this platform further, just join our team using this form!

  This is also true for uploaded files: the system adds to every uploaded file a prefix with the name of the organization, for instance Centro_culturale_italiano_Barcellona_Italian_class_August_2019.jpg

  this helps keeping the file system ordered and to clearly attribute files ownership.
• The assigned "domain" is in the form https://culturaitaliana.org/wiki/[language]/[name of center] rather than https://culturaitaliana.org/wiki/[name of center]/[language] because the wiki is shared (the portion "name of center" is a wiki page, and not an arbitrary part of the url) in the aim of a greater collaborativeness (with reference of the model itself of Wikipedia) and because in such way each center can enjoy, de facto, a fully maintained platform, where professionals can set up templates, modules, settings, extensions, forms, semantic properties, and other elements which guarantee a profitable and rich experience both from the side of visitors, and the organizations themselves. In future the project might also offer a private wiki, with the address in this form https://culturaitaliana.org/[name of center]/wiki/[language] only with the aim to manage private content (such as students, courses, budget, copyrighted contents), but not aimed at interoperability and open access.

For administrators

• Before importing templates or modules through either
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Export
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Special:Export
  • https://wikisource.org/wiki/Special:Export
  and so on, please import on another test wiki database on the same server, with the same LocalSettings.php, because the import might fail (for instance importing Module:TNT from wikipedia instead than from mediawiki) due to Lua script parsing.

• added parser functions: #userAffiliatedTo and #userRealName, the first returns the organization to which the logged in user is affiliated and the second the user real name. This is used for instance in forms, to allow the user to appear as affiliated to his/her organization when contributing to some common contents, and more.

• Once that an organization is added, create an entry in LocalSettins.php like

   $wgGroupPermissions['memberof_{organization name}']['edit'] = false;

  where {organization name} should be replaced with the organization name with spaces replaced by underscores. Then add the user affiliated to that organization to such group ('memberof_{organization name}') and to a group with edit rights: by this way the system knows that he or she is affiliated to that organization and can behave accordingly.

• on upload (file includes/api/ApiUpload.php) the filename of uploaded file is prefixed with the name of the organization to which the logged in user if affiliated. The same applies, as above, to pictures uploaded through PageForms.

todo: update PageForms uploaded picture preview searching class "simpleupload_prv"

• pages are protected from editing when the logged in user is not an administrator and the edited page or subpage does not belong to the organization to which he or she is not affiliated. We are using the extension "Abuse filter" with a custom filter. Check it here.