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

Wed Jun 22 09:20:08 UTC 2011

Thanks. I hope this can inaugurate a new era of wiki using!

Rufus

On 22 June 2011 09:06, Daniel Dietrich <daniel.dietrich at okfn.org> wrote:
> 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 conversion script is long out of date (and does not work in crucial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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