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            <p>The Wiki on this site has been broken for a long long time. The pages are being displayed but they are not editable. What use is a wiki that cannot be edited by readers?</p>
            <p>The root cause of the problem is an incompatibility of the Mediawiki (1.3.9) with PHP 4.4 . Fixes were later made available but I never got around to installing them, partly because I am running a highly customized version of Mediawiki with some of it's bloat trimmed off.</p>
            <p>While I was procrastinating, Mediawiki gradually moved upto version 1.5.5 Now when attempting to upgrade to the latest version I see nothing but a long sequence of erros. So the strategy is to follow the time honoured tradition of upgrading one small step at a time. The first step will be to move up from 1.3.9 to 1.3.18</p>
            <p>The docs says updating 1.3.18 should fix any issues caused by conflicts with the PHP version. It didn't happen until I switch over to 'ugly urls' (to use the mediawiki terminology). That is each is now identified uniquely by the query string in the url. Rewrites are not used.</p>
            <p>Took the next step, upgrading to 1.4.13, there was an error message when the update.php was executed but so far it looks like this message can be ignored.</p>
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Fixing the Wiki

2006 Jan 19 at 08:15 » Tagged as :collaboration,