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

Wed Jun 22 08:06:04 UTC 2011

Excellent! Thanks you very much!

Daniel

On 22.06.2011, at 02:55, Rufus Pollock wrote:

> 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 conversion script is long out of date (and does not work in crucial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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