wiki maintenance

[chris burke]

Hi All

I will do some maintenance work on the wiki in a few hours, around
10am UTC March 10. This will take around 2-3 hours, during which the
wiki will be read only. I'll email the forum just before starting.

Chris

[Devon McCormick]

Hi Chris - just so you know, I made a little change to the Foreigns page to put a dark line down the center of the table to make it easier to figure out which column you're on when you scroll down: 

https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Vocabulary/Foreigns.  It would be nice to have a little finer distinction, like a dashed line down every other column, but it was tedious enough to put in the dark line so it's probably not worth the bother unless you have an easy way to do that.

Thanks for all your work on this.

Regards,

Devon 

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[chris burke]

Hi Devon

The change to Foreigns looks good to me, thanks!

Chris

[chris burke]

The wiki maintenance is being done now. The wiki is set to read only
and the J logo is red.

[chris burke]

The wiki maintenance is finished and you can edit the wiki again. It
has the latest mediawiki LTS version 1.43. It is on a new IP address
so you may need to refresh your browser.

Some obsolete or inappropriate material has been deleted. If you see
deletions that you think should have been retained, please let me know
rather than try to restore them, thanks.

The old wiki will be available at oldcode.jsoftware.com for a few
weeks. Note that many links in that wiki are https links that will
take you to the new wiki.

[Leopold]

> If you see deletions that you think should have been retained, please let me know

the Getting Started page on the Main Page page should not be removed imo

or at least remove its dead link too

[chris burke]

Fixed now, thanks! The link was bad.

[Leopold]

its also dead on the "for new users" subpage of the main page

how about using something like <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:RottenLinks>?

[chris burke]

Thanks, fixed now.

BTW, you don't need to copy the forum. I will get these messages.

The wiki maintenance changed about 3500 of the 4500 or so pages, and
removed another 200. I am not surprised there are problems with links.
The RottenLinks idea is good, thanks.

Chris

[Ak]

Hi Chris,

Below the "Get Started" button on the principle column, A "Download" button should appear that takes a user directly to the System/Installation page (Download-> https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/System/Installation). 

It is not as direct or clear as it should be to download J.

Ak

[chris burke]

Thanks for the suggestion. I used Installation rather than Download
since it points to the System/Installation page, and set it as the
first item in the menu. The System/Installation page itself has been
simplified.

[Ak]

Awesome,  I'm glad it was of some help.

Ak

-------- Original message --------

From: chris burke <cbu...@jsoftware.com>

[Michal Wallace]

Does the wiki take some time to publish changes? 

I made some changes to  https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Phrases/Polynomials

I see them saved in the recent changes, and it says mine is the latest version, but I don't see the new version on the site, despite changing browsers / disabling cache.

[Devon McCormick]

I saw this under "Recent Changes" - so it looks like your changes from a couple of days ago took:

28 March 2026

16:08

Phrases/Polynomials 3 changes history  +299  [Michal Wallace (3×)]

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[Michal Wallace]

Well that was today, but yes, they seem to have been published to the site now. I guess it takes a few hours?