Quoting Jason Davies, from the post of Wed, 19 Jan:
I am familiar with *using* wikis but not necessarily maintaining them;
the software was installed for me.
there is hardly a single rule to maintain wikis, each is its own
entity...
1) some of the sytems people are concerned about
security. Is a wiki on
Mediawiki likely to provide any security hole that 'ordinary' web pages
don't? (or: 'what do I say to sound authoritative?' ;-)
like any web application, it uses dynamic content and therefore accesses
other data than its own read-only pages. there's naturally a risk
involved. MW in particular is also given he right to write files to the
local disks (if you enabled uploads) and that opens another potential
can of worms. No application is completely safe from human error and
some holes are not avoidable in advance, yada yada yada.
MW has sprung a few leaks in the past. none were too serious and update
patches were quick and effective IMHO, so like any other web
application, keep your eyes peeled on the announce list and upgrade ASAP
if there is a security update announced.
2) how do I delete a page? :-) someone made one up as
a joke thinking it
could be removed. I can't work it out.
you need a sysop account to delete pages. if you are the admin/sysop you
will have a deletion link at the top right next to the "edit" and other
tabs.
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