[okfn-help] Heads up: Migrating wiki.okfn.org to mediawiki

Wed Jun 22 00:55:26 UTC 2011

Hi All,

The migration is complete and we now have a nice new looking site
(please feel free to fix the logo -- I want something 135px x 135px or
smaller ...!):

<http://wiki.okfn.org/>

Took a *lot* longer than expected because the best available
conversion script is long out of date (and does not work in crucial
ways) so I had to do a lot of modding and hacking around (see ticket
for more details: <http://trac.okfn.org/ticket/766>) and I had to
manually upload xml files 1 by 1 (36 in all with our ec2 instance
sometimes taking 5m+ per 1Mb file due to massive steal ...)

Conversion of markup seems reasonably good though no doubt there are
some issues. I tried to remove as many spam pages before upload as I
could but I've definitely missed some [1] and there is individual spam
on pages that will need removing so if you are up for some
wiki-gardening please dive in.

Anyway the great news is we now have proper anti-spam protection and a
nicer wiki!

Rufus

[1] e.g.
Cdduplicationdvdduplication
Electronic Cigarette
Unlockiphone4iphone4unlock

On 20 June 2011 11:38, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:
> Today I will be making a first effort at migrating wiki.okfn.org to
> mediawiki as per:
>
> <http://trac.okfn.org/ticket/766>
>
> Please avoid editing wiki.okfn.org today if you can.
>
> Rufus
>

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