On 12/23/05, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 12/22/05, Brock Batsell
<wikipedia(a)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.