Wiki problem

Considering that only about 3 people actually ever edit the wiki and one of them only does it at random times....................

Indeed, and may be some more yet.

As I mentioned in my reply to Andy on the 1st of the month, the server its on is almost shagged, and we need to migrate the workload to a cloudy virtual server. Meanwhile we are seeking to minimise the workload generated by non critical stuff as much as possible. Hence why the wiki is in maintenance mode.

The good news is most of the applications have been migrated to out test platform now, so hopefully we are not too far away from the move for real.

In message , John Rumm writes

Show of hands/vote of thanks for unrewarded effort?

In message , John

Excuse my ignorance but what are you talking about?

Mike

This:

Owain

The wiki and faq pages have been hosted by various people and in a number of places over they years. Currently we (Internode Ltd) host the wiki and FAQ pages on our servers. The faq pages being basically static web content are easy to host, and can be shoved onto any shared hosting account. The wiki however is a bit more heavyweight and won't fit on many cheap hosting services. Hence I gave it space on a dedicated co-lo server we have in a Rackspace data centre. As highlighted above, that server now has issues, hence the need to limit the functionality of the wiki until its moved.

oh yes

... plus the offer of "two bob for the meter" when me pension arrives :)

NT

Thanks for the explanation John. I have read mention of the Wiki in the past but have never had a link to it before or understood what it is. Once fully functional once more perhaps the occasional post explaining its existence would be useful to newer members.

Keep up the good work.

Mike

Fair point - one tends to assume most folks will have stumbled across it by now.

The groups FAQ file has existed for a long time, with various collators and editors. You can see the history here:

I took over editing from Phil Addison in 2009, and then took over hosting from Grunf's company Symworks in 2011.

The wiki came about from a discussion in 2007 and John Stumbles did allot of the work getting the first version started. The idea really being a DIY DIY FAQ - i.e. one that we could all edit and maintain without needing to rely on a single FAQ maintainer to do it.

If you have seen wikipedia, then you will be familier with the look and layout since it uses the same software - but beyond that there is no connection with wonkypedia.

At first we had it open to anonymous edits, but found we spent most of the time reverting vandalism and spam, so changed to an "account holder only" policy, so if you do become a pest we can ban you more easily ;-)

There have been a fair few contributors over the years, but only tend to be a handful that work at any one time. It would be nice to have more active contributors, even if all you fancy doing is fixing the odd typo or broken link.

If anyone wants a login, just email me your preferred username and I will create it and email you the password.

There are a few help pages there on editing articles, but again feel free to email if you need additional guidance.

Thanks George, will keep that in mind. So far I think the wiki is now ported onto our test platform, so should be ok. Just getting some of the other things moved and tested. Once we are happy we can get everything else running as it should we will go live on the new server.

I'd like to take this opportunity to thank you (& the others involved) for running that wiki. It's very nice.

As someone who knows the effort in running stuff like that, thank you John.

Although I add a fair amount of stuff to the wiki as a user, I will deflect some of that appreciation to my co-director Martin who does most of the actual maintenance of the platform on that server.

It's also quite practical to write stuff here, I've put things on the wiki for folk that don't know how to do it.

NT

Well, +1 to both of you!