Hello all,
Here's the latest on the wiki (http://css-discuss.incutio.com/)
cleanup and upgrade:
- The wiki has been, we believe, 99%+ cleaned of spam links. We
may even have reached 100%, but there's always the chance one or two
were missed. If anyone finds a page where we missed a splink, please
let me know off-list.
List member Bill Braun, who turns out to be local to me and
therefore will be collecting as many rounds as I can buy him as soon
as we can sync our schedules, was a huge help in this effort, and I
want to publicly thank him for all his effort. We all owe him a
great debt of gratitude.
- As I mentioned before, there were some pages that were either
damaged or lost entirely. These are now listed on
http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=SpamEdits (and if you want to
see how Bill and I went about the cleanup, check out that page's
document history). They will be restored to the extent possible
using the Wayback Machine.
- The truly amazing folks at Incutio have already done a test
import to MediaWiki, and it's looking VERY promising. The importing
script does a fair amount of formatting translation so that ~95% of
the pages will just move over smoothly. The URL structures will
necessarily change in MediaWiki, but there will be permanent
redirects to ensure that all the old URLs continue to work.
Some things can't be automatically translated, and that's where
the people who volunteered their help after my last posting will come
in. Once we've moved into MediaWiki, I'll unleash the volunteer army
to do consistency checks.
On a related note, if anyone knows of a good-looking,
minimalist, and freely-available MediaWiki skin, please let me know
about it off-list.
That's it for the time being. As I said before, many thanks to
everyone for your patience through this spamfiltration and the
subsequent cleanup.
--
Eric A. Meyer ([email protected]) http://meyerweb.com/
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