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Some information on the course Wiki

This website is running [[pmwiki -> pmwiki.org]. There is a lot of documentation available for it on the web.

Every student will be given an account on the Wiki. Beware: the wiki is not totally secure, so don't use a password that you care a lot about.

Page Groups and Security

PMWiki has a single level of hierarchy for organizing its pages. All page names, are therefore of the form:

If you look at the address bar in your browser, you'll see that this page is Main.WikiInfo.

Group and page names must begin with a capital letter.

For the 679 Wiki there are a few groups that we use:

1. Main - the group that the course staff puts stuff into. Students only have read access.
2. AllStudents - a page group that all students (and course staff) can read and write.
3. ID - (where ID is a CS login for a particular student). These are per-student groups (every student gets their own). They are set up so that only the owner (and the course staff) can write in it, but any student in class can read from it. If you want to make your pages world readable (not just by students in class), talk to the TA.

You will be asked to create pages and put them into your page group. You will be asked to add things to pages in the AllStudents directory.

Note: you must keep all pages such that the course staff can read and write it, and that the students in the class can read it. Please be careful!

If you need to refer to a page in another group, you use the notation Group.Page. So since my group is "Gleicher", if I wanted to create a link on a page in the AllStudents group, I'd need to do [[Gleicher.Assignment1]] .

Putting other stuff on the wiki

If you want to put things other than wiki pages up (like images and stuff), we'd prefer that you keep it in the wiki directory (so the Wiki is as self-contained as possible).

You will be given a directory in afs: /p/course/cs679-gleicher/students/LOGIN that can be referred to on a wiki page as: students:LOGIN.

(if you really want to know, the students "directory" is really a symmlink into the wiki "pub" directory that is available via the web)