Improving Creativity Exchange
From CreativeWiki
The entirety of this website, including all of the server side code, is open source.
How does it work? Well, first this site is based your basic MediaWiki install. Then, extensions or other site changes are posted as wiki page in Source. The prefix "Source : " is convention. Then you can edit the wiki pages to make changes. For now, only the site administrator (Nate) can check in code to the server after reviewing it to double check for vandalism or harmful code. Nate will do these check-ins periodically. The idea is though, that eventually sysops will in some way begin to be empowered to make check-ins based on the Constitution also in development.
So that's how a programmer can make improvements. But that's not the only way. Ideas and general discussion about the improvement of the site is also really important. Please use the space below to begin gathering ideas for general website improvements.
Improvements
- Modify MediaWiki to allow users to quickly add / modify their own text, pictures, audio, and video as quickly and easily as possible.
- This is done now except for a file size limit of 7 MB due to PHP. Which is lame.
- The filesize limitation can be overcome by creating ftp user accounts and then there is no limit. The Tom music section is an example of this. He has a separate ftp account to upload song to and can manage his wiki page independently.
- Add dynamic playlist generation based on mp3s found in directory.
- finished and tested.
- Add video and music extensions to link to uploaded content to wiki tags.
- implemented but uploaded content is getting added into new folders based on filename. Need to find way to specify exact folder.
- Modify free video and music flash players into site.
- Done.
- MP3 ID3 tag integration.
- done. if you upload mp3 files the player will pick up and display Artist - Title info. It works with both ID3v1 and v2. You need to specify at least a title field for it to pick it up. Otherwise it will use the filename as the title and no artist info will be displayed.
- I broke the download mp3 link when adding dynamic playist feature. Can be fixed. Must be fixed!!
- Updated the CE logo.
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