[Webcom] New OSGeo Wiki Startpage proposal

[Markus Neteler]

On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 9:34 AM, Arnulf Christl
<arnulf.christl at wheregroup.com> wrote:
> +1 for changing the layout
> -1 to copy the technical way it was done for Mapbender.
> The technical issue is that OSGeo Wiki has not enabled $wg_RawHtml=true in
> the LocalSettings.php. This is required to use the table / div tag solution
> that was used to design the start page proposed by Markus (which his why you
> were rejected as Spam).
> I strongly recommend to not set $wg_RawHtml=true for the OSGeo Wiki because
> it will attract all kinds of really ugly spam stuff.

I am not sure about this. We are running Mediawiki for years and
nothing happened which stayed more than 24 hours. Many eyes...

> But Yves' solution http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Francophone does work and with
> a somewhat more conservative styling :-) should suit us fine. I would
> suggest to try that out on the discuss page and then copy to Main_Page.
> Markus, Yves, shall we?

I have tried in the GRASS wiki and get this with their layout template:
"The page you wanted to save was blocked by the spam filter. This is
probably caused by a link to an external site.

The following text is what triggered our spam filter: <table
style="baseline:top;display:inline;width:{{{width2|300px}}};">
"

I would prefer to get the div thing through since it is ready.
Otherwise I fear that just nothing will happen to the initial page...

reference:
http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/New_OSGeo_Wiki_Startpage
(don't care about the absent links - it's on a different wiki).

cheers
Markus