drupal

An unusually long piece about the experience of one library's staff at installing and configuring Drupal. As one might expect, there were challenges during the process, but the final assessment was generally positive:

this discussion (and comments) fills in some of the blanks on the customization needed to get this code to work with large data sets MySQL is *not* used for the data....

Signaling the most aggressive open data push in the international development community to date, World Bank President Robert Zoellick launched Data.WorldBank.org this morning ahead of the organization's spring meeting. All of the World Bank's 2,000+ data indicators are now open and freely available to the public. This new website is the browser for some of the most commonly used data, built to let researchers and policy makers filter though the vast data sets and quickly jump to indicators. The site currently includes 339 indicators from 209 countries, and this is just the start.

Wiki

Origo aims to provide full MediaWiki functionality. It uses multiple modules to accomplish this:

* wikitools to provide wiki nodes in Drupal
* Custom module mediawiki_filter wraps MediaWiki's library for parsing and rendering MediaWiki syntax. The MediaWiki filter is enabled for all of Origo's content: issues, blogs, forum posts, etc.
* Diff for comparing revisions or previewing changes
* GeSHi Filter for syntax highlighting of code blocks
* Image, because they speak a thousand words

If you check http://socialsynergyweb.org/network/category/blog-categories/floss you'll see documentation of infrastructure that I set up on dev server.

We now have mongrel clsuters running, and Imagemagik and rmagick working correctly, plus documentation of how to do it.