Hello Jim greetings thanks, this is a good news and an exciting development.
We look forward to use the upgrades, with regards ramesh sharma Ramesh C. Sharma Regional Director Indira Gandhi National Open University, India On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 7:10 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Today's topic summary > > Group: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator/topics > > - Mediawiki upgrade planned, WikiEducator/WikiResearcher downtime alert > <#1473cd3a2b8e033d_group_thread_0> [2 Updates] > > Mediawiki upgrade planned, WikiEducator/WikiResearcher downtime alert > <http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator/t/8f6985011bfd71bc> > > Jim Tittsler <[email protected]> Jul 14 05:39PM -0700 > > 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/ > > > > > Wayne Mackintosh <[email protected]> Jul 15 12:50PM +1200 > > 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: > > > -- > 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.
