BRGS Wiki:System Changes

Scheduled Changes

• 23/09/10 (or later): Migration to another server.
• September 2010:
  • Upgrade to MediaWiki 1.16 and ParserFunctions.
  • Separate BRGSMono theme (current theme) from MonoBook.
  • Maintenance and upload of SpecialUserScore extension.
• October 2010:
  • New Vector-based BRGS theme. Vector is the new theme sported by Wikipedia et al.
  • Review of previously-recommended extensions.

Change Log

• 26/06/10: Any person who generates excessive web traffic will have their IP address temporarily blocked.
• 23/05/10: Some unnecessary language packs removed and excessively large photos deleted to conserve filespace.
• 28/03/10: Migration to new server complete.
• 26/03/10:

  Enabled uploads (be careful of filesize, there isn't very much space for images).

  Fixed presentation on personal + toolbox links.

  Updated historical stats.

• 25/08/09: Upgraded to MediaWiki 1.15
• 18/07/08: Upgraded to MediaWiki 1.12
• 24/05/08: Fixed some database errors that may have affected page editing.
• 23/11/07: Site database somehow fell apart and I didn't notice this for a while since 19th. Fixed now and backed up again.
• 04/07/07: Converted the email address->image to curtail the influx of new spam from non-image reading bots. Updated the stats for June.
• 01/06/07: stats.brgswiki.org shows recent usage statistics (data before November is on the current events page); problem with html in pages identified; backup.
• 20/05/07: Upgraded to MediaWiki to 1.1 - result is that html is now disabled.
• 20/05/07: ini_set error silenced (at the expense of other things)!
• 19/05/07: StatCounter cookies/Javascript removed (now redundant). Code will phase out as the page caches get updated.
• 17/05/07: Anonymous edits/page creation disabled; backup.
• 19/03/07: Re-enabled image uploads