Re: Spammer on the wiki!!

[Aidan G. <wgs...@no...>]

Christian Walther wrote:
> I wonder whether it would be a good idea to switch to the 
> SourceForge-provided MediaWiki now 
> (http://apps.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/pipmak/) instead of trying to 
> maintain our own outdated installation. When it was introduced, I 
> originally decided against it for various reasons, but some of them have 
> been eliminated now, and a reconsideration may be in order. Some 
> upcoming changes to the Hosted Apps have just been announced (by e-mail 
> to project admins, it doesn't seem to be on the web anywhere) and I'll 
> have a closer look when they are implemented in 1-2 weeks. The advantage 
> would be that the burden of administration is taken off us (me). The 
> biggest disadvantage I see right now is that we would lose the 
> Pipmak-specific look.

I just took a look at the MediaWiki FAQ...
<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:FAQ>
...and it sounds as if giving it a Pipmak look would be trivial, if you were 
to switch to SourceForge's MediaWiki.  Unless there's some 
SourceForge-specific detail I don't know about that would cause problems in 
this area.

  -Aidan