Floating Edge Web Site FAQs

For help logging in to your web site provided by Floating Edge (http://floatingedge.com/), please check the How_To_Login page and Web Site Design Tips.

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Gallery

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How do I change the cover image of an album?

To change which image is displayed for an album:

make sure you are logged in to Gallery using a login that has permission to edit the album
go into the album and find the picture you would like to be the cover image (or "highlight" for the album as they call it)
select "Highlight Photo" from the drop down menu under the photo, and now that photo will be the one featured for the album

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How Do I Reset My Password?

Check out the instructions on the Gallery web site (http://gallery.sourceforge.net/), which I found by searching for "reset password" there: password reset (http://codex.gallery2.org/index.php/Gallery1:FAQ#I.27ve_forgotten_my_admin_password.21_How_can_I_reset_it.3F). Follow the instructions for Gallery version 1.4.4 or above.

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MediaWiki

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How do I edit pages on the wiki?

Please check out the Editing Help page on this web site for some hints, especially on how to use the imgarray extension that I have added to our wikis here to allow you to place Gallery images in your wiki pages.

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What did you have to do to allow raw HTML in the wiki?

This opens up a security hole, but if you are controlling logins to trusted users it is okay. For many of you this is the case, so I enabled raw html in your wikis by adding this section to your wiki's LocalSettings.php file:

# Allow raw, unchecked HTML in ... sections.
# THIS IS VERY DANGEROUS on a publically editable site, so
# you can't enable it unless you've restricted editing to
# trusted users only with $wgWhitelistEdit.
$wgRawHtml = true;

And you keep control of who can login by means of these (also in LocalSettings.php):

# Specify who can edit: true means only logged in users may edit pages
$wgWhitelistEdit = true;

# When user is 0, anonymous users may not create new accounts
$wgWhitelistAccount = array ( 'user' => 0, 'sysop' => 1, 'developer' => 1 );

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What did you have to do to allow the use of subpages?

The ability to use Subpages means you can give a page a name with a slash in it and it will act as it it a child or sub-folder of that page. And example is the set of About This Site (http://baoc.org/wiki/Site) pages on the BAOC (http://baoc.org/) web site. Here's what had to be added to the LocalSettings.php file to turn on subpages for the main namespace (the one you pretty much use for everything):

# Which namespaces should support subpages?
# See Language.php for a list of namespaces.
# Namespaces described at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Namespace
#
# The defaults:
# $wgNamespacesWithSubpages = array(-1 => 0, /* Special */
#                                 0 => 0,  /* Main */
#                                 1 => 1,  /* Talk */
#                                 2 => 1,  /* User */
#                                 3 => 1,  /* User_talk */
#                                 4 => 0,  /* Meta */
#                                 5 => 1,  /* Meta_talk */
#                                 6 => 0,  /* Image */
#                                 7 => 1,  /* Image_talk */
#                                 8 => 0,  /* MediaWiki */
#                                 9 => 1,  /* MediaWiki_talk */
#                                 10 => 0, /* Template */
#                                 11 => 1);/* Template_talk */
$wgNamespacesWithSubpages[0] = 1;

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How can I edit wiki pages with XEmacs?

It can be a lot easier to edit long pages using your favorite editor from your favorite web browser. Mine is Emacs (or sometimes its cousin XEmacs) and Firefox (http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/), and I have assembled instructions from other places that I was able to get working on my How_to_use_XEmacs_for_wiki_edits page.

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