Wonky Wiki


I've had to migrate my site to a new format as the wiki software that I was using started to mess up. For some reason it decided to stop rendering most new entries. Not all, just most.

This left me with two possibilities, One the software was buggy and it was just a glitch, or two the software was glitchy and had corrupted the wiki database. In which case life was only going to get a lot worse. Faced with these possibilities and not wanting to learn Perl just so I could debug some code and maybe get my wiki back in shape, I decided to instead export my wiki to HTML and create a flat site. This way I could easily back it up or migrate to other systems.

I now have the site mostly migrated, as you see. there are still a few glitches that I will get to when I can. So, please excuse the occasional bad link or poor formatting for now. Thanks.

Before any of the other techies go off on me about the use of frames. I know frames are considered "evil" but my use of then is sparing and it allowed me to migrate the site more quickly. To do it with more finesse I'd have to migrate to different server software and then set up the appropriate SSI's (remember I think JavaScript is "evil" and refuse to inflict it and the security risks it poses on my visitors.) The site will stay as it is for the time being but later on down the road I probably will move to a better (frameless) set-up. The priority right now was getting the data out of the wiki before it totally cacked and it became a much more difficult task, and getting the pages back up in a presentable way that respects the values of the AsciiRibbonPlus campaign.

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