A quick status on migrating the wiki: I set up a new Wikimedia instance on a new wiki.freedos.org host this week, and yesterday I started to copy content from the old wiki into the new wiki. This is a copy/paste exercise for a few reasons that I've explained in another email, but here's a summary:
[begin summary] Background: Long ago, SourceForge set up a shared Mediawiki environment for all projects hosted at SF. Every project used the same wiki system but had a different prefix. All SF users had a wiki login by default. Later, SF decided to stop hosting a shared wiki, so they made a data export available to every project and provided instructions to set up your own Mediawiki. We did that on the SF web host. In late-ish 2023, SF's website update meant our wiki can't use a stylesheet. I can't blame them, the wiki software was out of date (very difficult to update a website hosted at SF). I could export the data from SF and import it into a new wiki, but that would import *all* of the wiki users. And the SF database includes *all* SF users. I don't want to import all those unneeded accounts, so I'm setting up a fresh wiki. There aren't a ton of pages in our wiki, so I'm copy/pasting everything. [end summary] SF is planning another website update on March 18. There's no reason to think the old SF web hosting will stop working, but I am making that a self-imposed deadline; I want to get all of our wiki content moved by March 18. I think I'll make that deadline. So far, it's been very do-able. I made a lot of content updates on the "front" page of the wiki and the first few other pages I moved over. I think I've finished the pages that needed the most updating (out of date) so the most recent pages I've moved were a copy/paste exercise with very minimal edits for any obvious spelling/grammar. Dreamhost (the web hosting company) has very strict anti-spam measures in place, so sometimes I run against that when pasting long blocks of very technical text that might include commands. I think that's triggering the spam protection so those pages are taking more effort to get in (doing it in parts seems to help) but most are just copy/paste. As part of this exercise, I'm also making all the pages look more consistent. That usually means pages need to have a 1-line summary at the top, rather than starting with a long block of text. I'm also adding more links to things that should be in the wiki. Some of those will get "filled in" as part of the migration, others will be new pages. So if you see red links, don't panic. That's what a wiki is for. If you want to see the new wiki, it is at https://wiki.freedos.org/w/ (The "w" part will go away eventually, but for now it's basically a "hidden unless you know it's there" location.) Once I get all the content moved over, I'll set up wiki accounts for anyone who wants them. Jim _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
