Wiki / FAQ hosting

Jun 11, 2011 14 Replies

The wiki and FAQ are moving to new hosting arrangements, so you may see some changes / differences in the next few days and hours.



As many may be aware, they have been hosted by Grunff (a former regular poster to this group) for quite a number of years now, but due to a planned reorganisation of his servers needed to offload them.



So firstly I would like to give a public thank you to him for his generous contributions of time, effort, and resources over the years.



They have now moved onto our servers. The FAQ was shifted yesterday, so unless your local DNS is being a bit slow on the updates, you will probable be getting it from the new host now. The Back end of the wikiw went last week - so that should be ok anyway. The front end has only just moved so that should be appearing shortly. We have also upgraded to a more recent version of media wiki, so it might look a little different in places.



If anything seems to be broken, then drop me a line.


Thanks to both of you, and to all contributors.

Thanks from me as well - a useful resource that will carry into the future.

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So I'm even further in your debt.

Now where does the Wiki tell us what you drink and how to make/deliver it?

Hang on, I will go work on that page next ;-))

This page is now broken

formatting link
there a setting to tweak to make it display?

NT

Its not broken, just works differently under the new version of media wiki. Click on of the links below the edit boxes, to get the all pages digest in (currently) two sections:

17th Edition Consumer Units to Marlbe

or

Masonry Links to Zinc carbon battery

What end user would want to view half an index, and keep having to navigate back and forth between halves? At best its daft, and practiaclly speaking broken. There's presumably a setting somewhere that limits how many results are displayed per page, which needs setting more sanely. What and where unfortunately I don't know.

NT

How is that different from a book with an index spread over more than one page?

I am not aware of any settting to control the split point. Once you get to about a 1000 pages is splits them automatically.

It does not seem too unreasonable for a page (you get forward and back links). It also saves bogging the server down with very long pages.

When uploading a picture: "The upload directory (public) is not writable by the webserver. " I won't get to see any response to this for a while.

NT

Sorted (upgraded the version again the other night)

And then come back and post a link, dopey.

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