Admin's Log

Image descriptions now appear below an image displayed on a page. Adding this code to the tracker did the trick.

desc=desc

thumb=box&max=800&desc=desc

Updated the code on the template data entry pages to automatically redirect to the newly created item rather than back to a new template data entry page.

url="tiki-view_tracker_item.php?itemId"

Also updated the date formatting to dd-mm-yyyy.

I've been having some issues with filesystem corruption. I believe this can be attributed to the computer having some sort of hardware failure rather than failure with the hard drive. I've been periodically needing to run fsck command to repair the disk. I've been using two drives for the server that I manually mirror periodically so I do not believe it is the hard drive failing. I may consider using a different drive to completely rule this out in the future. I may also want to consider using server grade hardware rather than gaming PC parts.

Having some minor stability issues. I'm thinking a daily reboot will solve that for now. Script is set to run daily at 4:00am to reboot the server. Should only take 1-2 minutes to complete reboot.

I figured out how to customize the images posted in the tracker. They are now set to 800 pixel thumbnails and then when you click on the thumbnail the full size image opens.

Parameter used:
"thumb=box&max=800"

More information on PluginImg here.

Created customized pages for searching the database. It was a lot easier than I thought.

UPS has already been tested and worked during an actual power outage.

Updated permissions so trackers are viewable to public. Apparently this changes are not automatically retroactive and required hitting edit and save on each tracker item to apply changes. All should be viewable now.

I'm wondering if I can create a custom wiki page to act as a customized search engine for the database rather than providing access to the tracker directly. This will make listing and search even easier and clear.

WikiGrave server is now hosted with a 900 watt UPS to guard against power interruptions.

I'm still playing with fixing the file size limit I'm having with photos. This will cause some older photos to vanish.

I've been playing around with lots of things here but have failed to document all developments.

I'm working on having everything located in Tiki Trackers rather than a Wiki page. Trackers is their name for a database. Trackers have the advantage of maintaining a consistent formatting, remove and add data fields across all items, and provides better search indexing. I'm using Wiki pages as the data entry template and formatting for tracker data. One of the challenges of using a tracker will be how file attachments are displayed. This can be tackled at a later time.

I've decided to have the three different trackers. Cemetery, Memorial, Place of Worship. Memorial links to Cemetery, Cemetery looks for linked Memorial, Cemetery looks for linked Place of Worship. I like visiting old churches.

Tiki has been updated to 20.1.

Site backup is currently a manual process by cloning drives.

Things I'm playing with now.

• Social media connectivity
• Permissions so trackers and be viewed by anonymous
• Changing file storage to outside the database and allowing large files. Images over 10mb are refusing to upload at this time.
• Cleaning up maps
• Map of all geolocated graves in a Cemetery. I have a complicated idea of how to automatically generate this.

https://doc.tiki.org/Pretty-Tracker

Just some random notes.

Pretty Tracker will make the fields in the tracker database prettier with customized formatting.

Create a tracker with fields.
Create a wiki page and with variables.
Link them up.
The tracker will reference the wiki page and input the pretty formatting back into the tracker.

! Cemetery
{$f_19}
!! Location
{$f_20}
!! Address
{$f_22}
!! Phone Number
{$f_23}
!! Caretaker
{$f_25}
!! External Links
{$f_24}
!! Notes
{$f_21}

This will output back on the tracker like so.

Also see

• https://doc.tiki.org/PluginMap

This code will create a map. Size limit not set so map expand to page width. Center is set using decimal coodinates "97.740505,30.274291". Zoom level is set to "4". GeoLocation data comes from the page properties and any page listed.

{map controls="controls, layers, search_location, levels, scale, streetview, navigation, coordinates" popupstyle="bubble" center="-97.740505,30.274291,4"}

This code will create a map. Width has been set to "500". No center coordinates have been set. GeoLocation data comes from the page properties and any page listed.

{map controls="controls, layers, search_location, levels, scale, streetview, navigation, coordinates" width="500" popupstyle="bubble"}

Wikigrave is born!

Hosted on Linux using Tiki Wiki 20.0.

Server hardware includes an AMD Ryzen 1600, 16gb DDR4, and two 2tb hybrid hard drives.