Re: [cclib-devel] Choices about Mediawiki

[Noel O'B. <bao...@gm...>]

Actually, I've tried to renable our current wiki and I have gotten 80%
of the way. Currently, the website is back up, but editing is not
possible. I think they've renamed the databases so I need to change
some settings. That's a job for another day...

Noel

2008/9/24 Noel O'Boyle <bao...@gm...>:
> Hello all,
>
> I've been looking at the hosted MW (MediaWiki) on SF as we need to do
> something about our own MW. Unfortunately, it is currently not
> possible to import a database into the hosted MW, nor is it possible
> to use Special:Import to import the text directly. While the former is
> unlikely to be possible for a while (apparently it's on the To Do
> list), the latter is described as Urgent in a recent Feature Request
> (http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2107929&group_id=1&atid=200001).
>
> The hosted MW is at apps.sf.net/mediawiki/cclib.
>
> Right now, I can copy and paste the contents of our old wiiki into the
> hosted MW. This is boring tedious work but it shouldn't take too long.
> On the downside, we lose our wiki history. Does anyone care about
> this? I don't think our history is worth that much and am happy to go
> ahead and never have to worry about maintaining a MW in future.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Noel
>