wiki April 2009

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sphinx as search solution?
by Ian Weller 28 Apr '09

28 Apr '09

Here's a search engine solution[1] that doesn't run on Java and has a MediaWiki plugin[2]. Please take a look at let me know what you think with regards to using it for Fedora Infra's purposes. [1] http://www.sphinxsearch.com/ [2] https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/mediawiki/wiki/Extension:SphinxSearch -- Ian Weller <ian(a)ianweller.org> GnuPG fingerprint: E51E 0517 7A92 70A2 4226 B050 87ED 7C97 EFA8 4A36

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MW upgrade
by Ian Weller 11 Apr '09

11 Apr '09

Infrastructure recently upgraded us to MW 1.14. (yay!) From what I can tell in the release notes it's mostly bugfixes and API improvements. -- Ian Weller <ianweller(a)gmail.com> GnuPG fingerprint: E51E 0517 7A92 70A2 4226 B050 87ED 7C97 EFA8 4A36

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archive vs deletion
by Max Spevack 10 Apr '09

10 Apr '09

Hi, I don't like the Archive/Delete processes that we have, and here is why, and how I think it should be changed. The cost of creating a wiki page should be very low. This encourages collaboration, and it encourages people to try to write down crazy ideas that may or may not work. The ability to delete a wiki page is not easy. I can't find it now, but a while back I saw a bunch of requirements that a page had to meet in order to be "deleted" and otherwise it can only be "archived". I submit to you that a process like that discourages people from ever moving a page to the Archive namespace, because they no longer have control over its final fate. If I create a page in my own personal namespace and want that page to be deleted, as I understand it right now I can't do that all by myself. That's wrong. I guess I see the world as black and white. Either a page is useful, or it is not. Why would you want to keep an archived copy of a useless or outdated page sitting around? What if the owner of that page would simply prefer that the page cease to exist? Why is it better for Fedora to have a big pile of abandoned pages sitting around, rather than simply purge them and move on? Something like Archive: allows you to have a window of time to take a look at what might end up being deleted -- as a sanity check -- but I think that after a page has been in Archive for a week or 2 weeks, anyone should be able to make that page go away. Anyone should be able to trivially get a list of all pages that have been in Archive: for X amount of time, look at them, and then delete them if they think they should be deleted. My .02, Max

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