[Mediawiki-l] Mediawiki instalation in SourceForge problem

[Angela]

On 3/23/06, jdd <jdd at dodin.org> wrote:
> I was said recently by sourcerforge that no wiki will be
> autorised to stay in sourceforge.

MediaWiki wikis are allowed to be hosted on SourceForge.

jdd forwarded me the mail at
<http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:9599:200508:poadlponoakpmcghbdhm>
to explain why he thought wikis were not authorised to stay in
sourceforge.

This misunderstanding seems to related to the announced changes at
<http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1109940&group_id=1&atid=350001>
where it was said "all existing group directory space will be mounted
read-only." However, data in a MySQL database is still writable, so
MediaWiki can still be hosted on Sourceforge. More info is at
<http://sourceforge.net/docs/E07/>, a, document which explains the two
ways of storing writable data on Sourceforge. It did cause Twiki to
move (<http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/TheNewTWikiDotOrgServer>),
but shouldn't affect MediaWiki or others that use a MySQL database.

Angela.