Re: [Freedos-devel] Wiki and SF hosted apps

2012-07-11 Thread Jim Hall
> > > If hosting is required for a custom MediaWiki installation, I would be > happy to offer that. (I used to host a FreeDOS download mirror several > years ago, and indeed the info page on it is still there. :)) > Thanks! It's good to know we have some alternate hosting options if we need to go

Re: [Freedos-devel] Wiki and SF hosted apps

2012-07-11 Thread Owen Rudge
> In the meantime, I'll be sure to grab a backup of the current FreeDOS > Wiki, as a snapshot. Even if you can't get a full backup of the database, you should be able to export each page with its full history from the current MediaWiki, and import that into any other MediaWiki instance. You'd lo

Re: [Freedos-devel] Wiki and SF hosted apps

2012-07-09 Thread Jim Hall
Great comments, thanks. I didn't see the ads with my ad blocker in place. Since SourceForge has pushed back the date, we have a bit more time to figure out what to do with the wiki. We always have option 1, but I'd really like to find out from SourceForge how a local MediaWiki could send email out

Re: [Freedos-devel] Wiki and SF hosted apps

2012-07-09 Thread Ulrich Hansen
Hi, I put a lot of work into the network and the virtualbox chapters in the freedos wiki and I like to continue that work. So if you ask me, I would clearly prefer to stay with MediaWiki. I took a quick look on Wikia though and I am not sure that's the right place. There are a lot of ads!

Re: [Freedos-devel] Wiki and SF hosted apps

2012-07-09 Thread Robert Riebisch
Jim Hall wrote: > My recommendation is to move to Wikia (option 2). We can customize the > colors (buttons, links, header, page color) and adjust the background > (color or image) to make a FreeDOS Wiki look "somewhat" like our main > website. I've already set a graphic wordmark as the FreeDOS log

Re: [Freedos-devel] Wiki and SF hosted apps

2012-07-09 Thread Jim Hall
On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 2:21 PM, Jim Hall wrote: > Hi all, > > If you have an account with SourceForge, you may have received an > email from them that SourceForge will retire their Hosted Apps on > September 1 this year. You can recognize if something is a Hosted App > by it's URL - if the URL is

[Freedos-devel] Wiki and SF hosted apps

2012-07-09 Thread Jim Hall
Hi all, If you have an account with SourceForge, you may have received an email from them that SourceForge will retire their Hosted Apps on September 1 this year. You can recognize if something is a Hosted App by it's URL - if the URL is of the pattern http://sourceforge.net/apps/appname/projectna

Re: [Freedos-devel] Wiki

2009-02-15 Thread Jim Hall
On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 12:12 PM, Robert Riebisch wrote: > Robert Riebisch wrote: > >>> You only need a sourceforge-account! No extra Wiki account necessary. >> >> I have an SF.net account, of course, but it didn't work in the past. Now >> it works. Thanks! :-) > > Now I know why: > https://apps.s

Re: [Freedos-devel] Wiki

2009-02-14 Thread Robert Riebisch
Robert Riebisch wrote: >> You only need a sourceforge-account! No extra Wiki account necessary. > > I have an SF.net account, of course, but it didn't work in the past. Now > it works. Thanks! :-) Now I know why: https://apps.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/freedos/index.php?title=Special:Log/rights

Re: [Freedos-devel] Wiki

2009-02-14 Thread Robert Riebisch
Florian Xaver wrote: > You only need a sourceforge-account! No extra Wiki account necessary. I have an SF.net account, of course, but it didn't work in the past. Now it works. Thanks! :-) Robert Riebisch -- BTTR Software http://www.bttr-software.de/

Re: [Freedos-devel] Wiki

2009-02-14 Thread Florian Xaver
You only need a sourceforge-account! No extra Wiki account necessary. Bye Flo Robert Riebisch escribió: > Robert Riebisch wrote: > >> How? I didn't find any information on >> . > > Jim? > > Robert Riebisch

Re: [Freedos-devel] Wiki

2009-02-14 Thread Robert Riebisch
Robert Riebisch wrote: > How? I didn't find any information on > . Jim? Robert Riebisch -- BTTR Software http://www.bttr-software.de/ -- Open Sou

Re: [Freedos-devel] Wiki

2009-02-07 Thread Robert Riebisch
Jim Hall wrote: > ... In the > meantime, if you want to edit the FreeDOS Wiki, please create a wiki > account for yourself ... How? I didn't find any information on . Robert Riebisch -- BTTR Software http://www.bttr-softwa

Re: [Freedos-devel] Wiki

2009-02-04 Thread Florian Xaver
But I can log in - I only cannot edit the main-site. Or do I need a special account? I haven't another account than the normal sf-account (flox82). Bye Flo Jim Hall wrote: > Update: While I thought permissions were wide open, SF confirms that > you need a wiki account to edit the Wiki. :-( This

[Freedos-devel] Wiki

2009-02-03 Thread Jim Hall
Update: While I thought permissions were wide open, SF confirms that you need a wiki account to edit the Wiki. :-( This is to prevent spamming. They have raised this as an enhancement request. In the meantime, if you want to edit the FreeDOS Wiki, please create a wiki account for yourself, then req

Re: [Freedos-devel] Wiki spam

2006-01-08 Thread Alain
[EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu: In the end, I agree with Jeremy on assigning passwords to block editing the wiki. I allways thought that identification is nescessary for anything that has public access. I read that even Wikipedia is seriously thinking of it. Cheers, Alain ---

Re: [Freedos-devel] Wiki spam

2006-01-06 Thread aitorsm
Hi Michael, I have seen that too (from the "recent changes"). It has always surprised and annoyed me such things a lot, because who can think they can sell by spamming a wiki documenting some software? This sort of things can only generate anger, thus it has been done because of a very malicious (

Re: [Freedos-devel] Wiki spam

2006-01-06 Thread Michael Devore
At 05:23 PM 1/6/2006 -0500, Kenneth J. Davis wrote: Michael Devore wrote: Not sure if it's already been noticed, but the wiki at http://wiki.fdos.org has been pretty heavily spammed with Cialis crap, several pages completely replaced. Unfortunately they keep doing it which means I am going

Re: [Freedos-devel] Wiki spam

2006-01-06 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Michael Devore wrote: Not sure if it's already been noticed, but the wiki at http://wiki.fdos.org has been pretty heavily spammed with Cialis crap, several pages completely replaced. Unfortunately they keep doing it which means I am going to have to setup the wiki so people have to create

[Freedos-devel] Wiki spam

2006-01-06 Thread Michael Devore
Not sure if it's already been noticed, but the wiki at http://wiki.fdos.org has been pretty heavily spammed with Cialis crap, several pages completely replaced. --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log fil