[Bioperl-l] $wgEnableMWSuggest on the wiki please?

[Mark A. Jensen]

re:aside -- I can help with this; I promise not to break anything. 
cheers MAJ
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jason Stajich" <jason at bioperl.org>
To: "Dan Bolser" <dan.bolser at gmail.com>
Cc: "BioPerl List" <bioperl-l at lists.open-bio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 1:17 PM
Subject: Re: [Bioperl-l] $wgEnableMWSuggest on the wiki please?


> Can you send sysadmin request mail to the helpdesk - support at open-bio.org 
>  so mauricio or someone can have it in the queue.
> 
> [aside]
> I've had to stop doing OBF sysadmin work so we are definitely looking  
> for someone to help with the ALL VOLUNTEER team of now just Mauricio  
> and Chris Dagdigian who do mediawiki and sysadmin support.
> 
> We've reached a bit of crunch where there are lots of things to tweak  
> and customize for the various flavors of MW installs that the projects  
> want but we don't have enough dedicated admins to really support  
> this.  Most of us have gotten into these projects to support our own  
> bioinformatics programming not sysadmin tasks so there is a bit of gap  
> here. Some of us (me) were not trained as sysadmin but jumped in and  
> figured out how to help and do it - and learned valuable life  
> skills... =)
> 
> We're discussing plans to upgrade the machines in the future which  
> would improve performance and reliability we hope and also use this  
> opportunity to streamline the MW installs to be a more easily  
> maintained wikifarm.
> 
> [/aside]
> 
> -jason
> On Aug 25, 2009, at 8:16 AM, Dan Bolser wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> Can some one set $wgEnableMWSuggest  on the BioPerl wiki please?
>>
>> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgEnableMWSuggest
>>
>>
>> I generally find this a great feature to have on any MW install. Can
>> we also create a page (usually "BioPerl:Configuration" (or
>> '$wgSiteName:Configuration')) to report details of the specific MW
>> configuration settings used on the wiki? This is also a good place for
>> people to request configuration changes to tweak the way the wiki
>> works.
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Dan.
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> Jason Stajich
> jason.stajich at gmail.com
> jason at bioperl.org
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