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.
For instance at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_wiki_software it's stated
that MW offers URL & word blacklisting, it only does so through a
MediaWiki extension, but I think to maintain any kind of consistancy
in such a listing you should only list things in the standard
distribution. However even that would be unfair, because different
software packages might have different ways of being distributed, some
might prefer a very minimalist standard installation offering modules
for nonessential functionality while others might distribute a big
monolithic application, in that case the latter application would be
listed as much more feature-complete which would not be the case in
practice.
Speaking of the standard distribution Tom added information in the
"WYSIWYG page editing" field that doesn't apply to MediaWiki at all,
but his fork of it, that should probably be removed.