News

Current news is at the bottom of the home page.

Older news is here.

2014

• 14 Feb 2014 — A platform update caused some blank pages today. All fixed.

2012

• 27 May 2012 — HTTPS service is now available for this wiki.
• 25 Apr 2012 — Users can no longer create their own accounts.
• 04 Mar 2012 — Wiki software upgraded.

2011

• 12 Oct 2011 — Users must now also process a visual CAPTCHA in order to perform certain operations, including new account and page creation.
• 14 Feb 2011 — Due to a rash of spam, users must now confirm their email address before they have edit permission. Visit your "my preferences" page to send yourself a confirmation email.
• 21 Jan 2011 — Due to a time-consuming upgrade of the server software, the wiki was down for a few days. It should be back and fully functional now.

2009

• 17 Dec 2009 — The wiki was down for a few days for a hardware and software upgrade.

2007

• 24 Mar 2007 — The wiki was down 2007-01-29 through 2007-03-23, due to a hardware failure and software upgrade delays.
• 24 Mar 2007 — Content is now licensed under CC Attribution 3.0 rather than the GPL.

2006

• 21 Sep 2006 — The wiki was down for about 24 hours after an incomplete PHP upgrade; sorry about that.
• 03 Apr 2006 — MediaWiki upgraded to 1.4.15, and file uploading enabled (see the 'Upload file' link in the toolbox section of every page).
• 03 Mar 2006 — An overzealous upgrade attempt (MediaWiki 1.4.5→1.5.4) caused an outage that lasted from 2006-01-10 through 2006-03-02. Fixed by downgrading to 1.4.14.