On 12/23/05, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason avarab@gmail.com wrote:
On 12/22/05, Brock Batsell wikipedia@theskeptik.com wrote:
Thomas Gries wrote:
I updated that page.
- because MediaWiki is now at version 1.5.3, and
- has email notification built-in (even when this is still disabled on
the major project sites). T.
Also, could someone more in the know than I look at MediaWiki's entry for 'Web-server required'? It currently states 'Apache or IIS with PHP', which implies that it only works with those two servers, which is far from the truth. I personally am running MW on lighttpd, and I know the upload server is as well, and I know there are at least a few others MW runs perfectly fine on, but there must have been some reason to list that there that I'm not aware of.
I've found the Wikipedia pages on software to often be full of factual inaccuracies, misunderstandings or being guilty of treating their subjects unequally.
To reply to myself there's one other very common error, licenses, for example the page on MediaWiki lists its license as "GPL", that's very ambiguous and in this case just plain wrong, most of MediaWiki is under the GPL-2 *or later*, we also use a Memcached libarary that we bundle that's under the LGPL-2 or later.
This also very common with regards to "the BSD license", which is an oxymoron, because there are more than one.