[pbs] PBS wiki
Mary Sue Ittner
msittner at mcn.org
Tue Feb 3 14:45:36 EST 2009
Hi,
Ibiblio upgraded php today. It's the programming language that our wiki
uses. Unfortunately our wiki is incompatible with the upgrade so that none
of the pages show anymore. It's not clear whether or not they will be able
to modify the code and patch it up. We started with this wiki software
about five years ago and it worked well for us for a number of years and
when it went down the last time with an upgrade, a lot of work went into
making it workable again, both from ibiblio and from our wiki volunteer
support helper, Jay Yourch. I spent a lot of time fixing things too. What
we did last time won't work this time since the wiki software we are using
is no longer being patched for security issues or software upgrades. In
other words the developers have lost interest in it.
I'm exploring alternatives at the moment as is ibiblio. Whether changing to
another wiki could be done might depend on how much time it took to fix
everything. Our data is in a database which could be used with another
wiki, but it's possible that every page might need to be fixed. In the
meantime you can still look at the pictures since the files have been
stored in a different place and are viewed from there.
http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/files/
This takes awhile to load because of all the pictures stored there so I
suggest you append whatever genus you want on the end of this url. For
instance if you wanted to look at the Babiana pictures you would go to
http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/files/Babiana
Mary Sue
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