Wiki talk:Maintenance

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Todo

  • Writing a page about the Wiki's searching abilities, at Project:Searching.
  • Writing a page about the site's privacy policy, Project:Privacy policy.
  • Writing a help page about the Wiki, Project:Help.
  • Investigate MediaWiki's caching technique's preserving the RSS piece.
    • Might require communicating with UVM's server crew.
  • Writing a style suggestion guide for the site.
  • Support one of the short URL proposals for the Main Page.[1][2]
  • Design a FAVICON.ICO file and integrate it in VAGUE's MediaWiki theme.
  • Investigate using rewrite engine for cleaner URLs for articles.
  • Move the duplicated directions to meeting locations to a single page for each location, and link to them from each meeting.
  • Some day down the road, the Wiki will become the site, meaning the site can be installed at /vague.
  • Some day, the server will run PHP 5, so MediaWiki will need to be upgraded. DONE: 2010-02-22

Bug 20296 requires patch in 1.15.1

In version 1.15.1, there is a bug with PHP 5.3. It's an easy fix. The patch is attached to the following bug report.

http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/20296