Re: [WikiEducator] Digest for wikieducator@googlegroups.com - 2 updates in 1 topic

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Dr R C Sharma

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Jul 16, 2014, 5:09:20 AM7/16/14
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Hello Jim
greetings

thanks, this is a good news and an exciting development.

We look forward to use the upgrades,

with regards
ramesh sharma


Ramesh C. Sharma
Regional Director
Indira Gandhi National Open University, India



On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 7:10 AM, <wikied...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

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    Jim Tittsler <j...@OERfoundation.org> Jul 14 05:39PM -0700  

    At the end of August or beginning of September we are planning some
    major upgrades to our server infrastructure and our Mediawiki
    instances. This will mean the wikis will be read-only for at least a
    day, and perhaps longer. English WikiEducator will be the highest
    priority, the other language versions and WikiResearcher will follow.
    I suggest avoiding planning any online seminars or courses that rely
    on WikiEducator for the first part of September. It has been a couple
    of years since our last major upgrade, and there are may be unexpected
    breakages.
     
    The upgrade should be worth the temporary inconvenience. In addition
    to a small performance boost, we plan to take advantage of the new
    VisualEditor which is a major improvement over the Wikia "Rich Editor"
    that is currently available. Some of the extensions currently
    available will be removed, including Flash (no longer supported) and
    Kaltura video (server has not worked properly for years).
     
    There is a more detailed discussion on the WikiEducator-tech mailing
    list <groups.google.com/group/wikieducator-tech> and the "beta notes"
    page in the wiki
    <http://wikieducator.org/WikiEducator:Beta#a.WikiEducator.org>.
     
    Thanks for your understanding,
    Jim Tittsler
    Tech @ OER Foundation
     
    --
    Jim Tittsler
    http://OERfoundation.org/
    http://OERu.org/

     

    Wayne Mackintosh <mackinto...@gmail.com> Jul 15 12:50PM +1200  

    Hi Jim,
     
    Thanks for the heads up -- I'm *very* excited about the upgrade. I think
    that the visual editor will be a major improvement for newbs joining the WE
    family. (Folk who haven't seen the visual editor can log in to Wikipedia
    to see how it works.)
     
    W
     
     
     
     
    On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 12:39 PM, Jim Tittsler <j...@oerfoundation.org>
    wrote:
     
     
    --
    Wayne Mackintosh, Ph.D.
    Director OER Foundation
    UNESCO, COL and ICDE Chair in OER, Otago Polytechnic & OER Foundation
    Skype: WGMNZ1
    Twitter: Mackiwg

     


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