Hi Jim, Thanks for the heads up -- I'm *very* excited about the upgrade. I think that the visual editor will be a major improvement for newbs joining the WE family. (Folk who haven't seen the visual editor can log in to Wikipedia to see how it works.)
W On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 12:39 PM, Jim Tittsler <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > --- > 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 [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Wayne Mackintosh, Ph.D. Director OER Foundation UNESCO, COL and ICDE Chair in OER, Otago Polytechnic & OER Foundation Skype: WGMNZ1 Twitter: Mackiwg -- -- 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 [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] --- 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 [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
