Difference between revisions of "Wiki Upgrade Info"


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(New Wiki!: Updated for main_page to current_events page change.)
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* The syntax of mediawiki is different from phpwiki. For help: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_edit_a_page
 
* The syntax of mediawiki is different from phpwiki. For help: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_edit_a_page
 
* Obviously some of the pages do not need to be converted, e.g. the PHPwiki specific pages, or plugin pages.  
 
* Obviously some of the pages do not need to be converted, e.g. the PHPwiki specific pages, or plugin pages.  
* Keep the list below in alphabetical order and sign your name by typing <nowiki>--~~~~</nowiki> (see [[Main Page]] for the lists)
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* Keep the list below in alphabetical order and sign your name by typing <nowiki>--~~~~</nowiki> (see [[Current events| Current events page]] for the lists)
  
 
We'll do the homepage of the wiki last, once all the pages are done.
 
We'll do the homepage of the wiki last, once all the pages are done.

Revision as of 23:54, 16 September 2005

New Wiki!

  • PHPWiki has a nasty security hole and had to reinstall the server to be sure all the nasties are gone
  • To upgrade to the latest version of PHPWiki requires this same process ( copy and paste ) as the syntax is different, ie no upgrade script.
  • Since the opportunity arises this will also be an upgrade to MediaWiki; it powers wikipedia.org and is unquestionably more stable and supported because of this. It also supports better spam prevention due to logins.
  • Also a few people had commented that the wiki was a mess and it was getting a bit that way so this is a chance to clean it up.
  • I have paid a developer to write a phpwiki 2 mediawiki syntax converter. It's not perfect and you will need to clean up the output. ( if you are good at php and regex and want to try to make it work better, email me! )
  • The list of old pages and a link to their old content and an automatically converted new page( that will need fixing ) is at www.knoppix.net/oldwiki/
  • The list of new pages is Special:Allpages
  • The page names will be different. E.g. KnoppixCustomisations will become Knoppix Customisations
  • The syntax of mediawiki is different from phpwiki. For help: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_edit_a_page
  • Obviously some of the pages do not need to be converted, e.g. the PHPwiki specific pages, or plugin pages.
  • Keep the list below in alphabetical order and sign your name by typing --~~~~ (see Current events page for the lists)

We'll do the homepage of the wiki last, once all the pages are done.