At the end of August or beginning of September we are planning some major upgrades to our server infrastructure and our Mediawiki instances. This will mean the wikis will be read-only for at least a day, and perhaps longer. English WikiEducator will be the highest priority, the other language versions and WikiResearcher will follow. I suggest avoiding planning any online seminars or courses that rely on WikiEducator for the first part of September. It has been a couple of years since our last major upgrade, and there are may be unexpected breakages.
The upgrade should be worth the temporary inconvenience. In addition to a small performance boost, we plan to take advantage of the new VisualEditor which is a major improvement over the Wikia "Rich Editor" that is currently available. Some of the extensions currently available will be removed, including Flash (no longer supported) and Kaltura video (server has not worked properly for years). There is a more detailed discussion on the WikiEducator-tech mailing list <groups.google.com/group/wikieducator-tech> and the "beta notes" page in the wiki <http://wikieducator.org/WikiEducator:Beta#a.WikiEducator.org>. Thanks for your understanding, Jim Tittsler Tech @ OER Foundation -- Jim Tittsler http://OERfoundation.org/ http://OERu.org/ -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to wikieducator+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
