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