MediaWiki FAQ - Meta Just a little bit of background first as you may or may not know I have several websites that I run for fun, they have been around now for some time and so have grown just a bit eg some 100 to 200 pages each, so as you can imagine updating them by hand is getting , well a pain in the butt. So one of the grand plans that I have had is to convert my Dirk Maggs website, which is the oldest and larest site on Dirk to a Wiki. The wiki has been in beta for more than 2 years, due to an unfortant accident in doing an upgrade and backups not working, the database had to be started from the very start eg zero items in the database.
The database or wiki is called Maggsium the basic site is now up and working well, you have to be registered to enter information, but apart form that you can do all most anything you want. The wiki will allow you to upload copyright free pictures. It has at the last count eg yesterday 471 items which covers every radio play that Dirk has produced that is known about. It has taken some 200 to 300 hours to get all that information into the database.
Now the bad news
The wiki needs updating due to a problem with something that Microsoft have or have not done, don't ask me as I just do not understand what they are talking about. The bad news is that the last time I did an update it broke the database and thats when I found out that my secure backups did not work.
So the link above is to show the kind of information that is out there when talking about wiki's and how to work with the internal bits and peices that go to makeing the programme do what it does.
The problem is I don't understand all thats in the manuals, so I know I have got to do the upgrade but I also do not want to loose all that very hard work that I have done. So at this moment in time I just don't know what to do.
I will not just yet give out the url for Maggsium as it's not ready, it's very close but there are still a few things that need to be done on it, the delay is me understanding how to do some of the things I want done.
When Maggsium is a goer then I will give out the url.
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