Hi David Thanx for the explanation.
More below. On Thu, 2011-05-19 at 09:54 -0400, David Kaufman wrote: > Hi Josh (and cgiapp-ers one and all), > > I wasn't paying attention back when the choice of Wiki software was > made, installed (or skinned so nicely!), but the responsibility has > fallen to me to host and (occasionally) maintain it. > > So when we decommissioned our previous server (last year?) and migrated > the cgiapp wiki and mailing list (along with the rest of the company's > web apps and mail systems) to this new machine, I had to reinstall the > Wiki software, which I found was no longer maintained by the authors (at > least not on CPAN -- they do seem to have a radically new version that > requires a new fangled auto-magical auto-installer, neither of which are > on CPAN (nor can be, iirc because it now ships bundled *with* with other > CPAN modules) but I wasn't in the mood for radical) and it was also > unclear to me whether the next new version was Considered Done yet, so I > just got this creaky old wiki working again. > > In the process I found that about a kajillion spam posts had been added > that no one had removed (because no one had noticed), and poking around No-one notices means no-ones reads this stuff, or no-one cares enough to report it? Scary. > the wiki docs, I also found that this creaky old version actually had > some nice revision control features --- I guess all wikis do -- complete > with view-history, a nifty view-diffs button, dead simple roll-back and, > of course, email notifications. "nifty view-diffs button"? It turns out to be true. Click the tiny left-arrow-head at the bottom of a page, to get back to the previous version of that page. Only then does a diff button appear, to the right of the tiny black navigation (version-to-version) buttons. Nice, but a trifle obscurantistic. -- Ron Savage http://savage.net.au/ Ph: 0421 920 622 ##### CGI::Application community mailing list ################ ## ## ## To unsubscribe, or change your message delivery options, ## ## visit: http://www.erlbaum.net/mailman/listinfo/cgiapp ## ## ## ## Web archive: http://www.erlbaum.net/pipermail/cgiapp/ ## ## Wiki: http://cgiapp.erlbaum.net/ ## ## ## ################################################################
