Publications:About: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 13:06, 29 January 2024

This MediaWiki is for Open Source publications.

These public wiki pages are publications of the respective authors and Copyright holders. This wiki is provided free of charge to the respective authors. You are free to refer to these pages provided you acknowledge the sources and uphold the copyright/licence agreements.

🚩 Note:

this wiki is backed-up with the wiki remaining online every morning EST (no longer requiring an outage)
this is a restricted access wiki that implements Category:Access Control.
2022-10-22 - I installed the HitCounters extension that lists the number of visits at the bottom of each wiki page.

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+<strong>This MediaWiki is for Open Source [[:Category:Publication|publications]].</strong>
-This media MediaWiki is for Open Source publications. Work is in progressing part-time to migrate content from other sites due to the need to refer to the [http://web.archive.org/| Way back engine] attempting to find redacted hyperlink material in the old contents (which isn't always possible).
+These [[:category:public|public]] wiki pages are [[:Category:Publication|publications]] of the respective authors and Copyright holders. This wiki is provided free of charge to the respective authors. You are free to refer to these pages provided you acknowledge the sources and uphold the copyright/licence agreements.
-It has also become really difficult now because many agency wesbites have been changed to dynamically scripted engines without permanent links. That practice breaks the web and web-bots - which in many cases is very convenient when organisations don't want public records.
-This means that snapshots need to be taken of reference material to preserve content for historical publication presentation. Acknowledge always being provided.</strong>
-These public wiki pages are publications of the respective authors and Copyright holders. This wiki is provided free of charge to the respective authors. You are free to refer to these pages provided you acknowledge the sources and uphold the copyright/licence agreements.
-This wiki contains various [[:category:publication]]s referred via referrals.
-&#x1F6A9; Note: this is a restricted access wiki that implements [[:Category:Access Control]] that has been re-worked to support web-bots; if a page has been removed this wiki will return a 404 status code so web-bots can remove broken links.
+&#x1F6A9; Note:
+* this wiki is backed-up with the wiki remaining online every morning EST (no longer requiring an outage)
+* this is a restricted access wiki that implements [[:Category:Access Control]].
+* 2022-10-22 - I installed the [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:HitCounters HitCounters] extension that lists the number of visits at the bottom of each wiki page.
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