From the monthly archives:

January 2009

New Feature: Shortcuts and Editing Tips

January 27, 2009

Wikis are confusing places. To start with, there are tons of text links. They are literally everywhere. Not to mention the specialized wiki syntax, or “wikitext” required to edit a page. Experienced wiki readers and editors generally know where to look for the information or how to make basic edits. We love those visitors but [...]

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Circuit City Alumni Resources Article

January 16, 2009

Richmond suffered a huge loss today with Circuit City announcing its liquidation. “Liquidation” is just a euphemism for going out of business. It now goes from being one business on the brink to 30,000+ soon-to-be out-of-work people. A financial story to a human story. These “unwilling alumni” will soon be looking for jobs, trying to [...]

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Help Me Replace AdSense Ads

January 12, 2009

[update] I added some helpful Shortcut Links on the Main Page, article pages, and edit pages. This post has more details.[/update] If you could replace the AdSense ads on RichmondWiki.org, what would you replace them with? The goal of the site is not to generate revenue (I plan to spin it off into a nonprofit [...]

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Help Request: Broken About RichmondWiki Page

January 12, 2009

<update> Jon Lumpkin confirmed that the About RichmondWiki.org page actually works. It appears to be a hiccup in my browser, most likely due to a caching issue. Oops. </update> I just upgraded from MW 1.13.1 to 1.13.3 and only encountered one problem of my own doing. I used the web installer because I am on [...]

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Upgrading to MediaWiki 1.13.3

January 10, 2009

RichmondWiki.org was just updated to MediaWiki 1.13.3 to include some new security patches. All is well and our server seems to be lumbering along as fast as the tired little hamster can manage. Tangential Thought If you had told me in college that just a few short years later I’d be updating websites at 10:30 [...]

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