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Re: Spammer on the wiki!!

by Aidan Gauland-2 :: Rate this Message:

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 maintain our own outdated installation.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

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