Has there been any success recovering pages from archive.org? And how exactly is the wiki going to be backed up?
On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 10:02:18PM +0100, Guido Winkelmann wrote: > Hi, > > As many of you might have noticed, the Freenet wiki had been offline for > several weeks now. I turns out that the reason behind this was a site-wide > database upgrade from mysql 3 to mysql 4 at Sourceforge, which broke many > things. > > The bad news is that, apparently, there is no way to get at the data from the > old wiki again. It's lost. > > The good news is that nextgens has set up a new (empty wiki), this time > independent from sourceforge. The new wiki can be found at > http://wiki.freenetproject.org and uses the same software (Wakka) > that the old one used. > > While we're on the subject, I think the choice of Wiki software needs to be > reevaluated, and soon. In my opinion, the software has too many small and > annoying bugs and shortcomings. Considering how little I've actually used it > the first time around (it wasn't around for very long, after all), I've been > confronted with cryptic error messages and unpredictable and illogical > behavior far too often. Also, I think that the markup this wiki uses is among > the least logical and useful I've seen yet. > > I'd like to ask everyone who reads me to try out the new wiki (in the > sandbox) > and post their opinions here, maybe accompanied with suggestions for > alternatives. > > My personal suggestions for alternatives are: > > - MoinMoin > This is a simple and very reliable wiki engine that is used by quite a number > of people, among them freedesktop.org. It is highly customizable and its > popularity makes it likely that newcomers will already be familiar with its > markup. > It doesn't use a db but instead stores its data in flat-files, which the > freenet devs frown upon. > > - MediaWiki > This is the wiki that runs wikipedia.org. It uses mysql as the backend. > Everybody who has ever used Wikipedia will know his or her way around this > one. > > Guido > > -- > Mailing list archives are not a proper form of documentation. > _______________________________________________ > Support mailing list > Support@freenetproject.org > http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.freenet.support > Unsubscribe at http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support > Or mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Matthew J Toseland - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so.
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