[SAC] osgeo wiki issues

[Markus Neteler]

On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 5:36 PM, Guido Stein <gstein at appgeo.com> wrote:
> Hey folks,
>
> Jeff has pointed out to me that I was not being specfic/clear enough in my
> last message, so I would like to elaborate in order to make this information
> more useful.
>
> * The community portal is dead, can it be removed from the sidebar links?
> (at the left of every page)
>     sidebar page: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/MediaWiki:SideBar
>     community portal page:
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Wiki:Community_portal

Yes, that link is rather useless...
The Mediawiki maintainer may remove the link:

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Interface/Sidebar#Links

> * What is the criteria for "Current events" it seems like many things are
> tagged as such, that are no longer current?
>     Current events page:
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Wiki:Current_events

... this one is about do-ocracy, i.e. the event owners should take
care of maintaining their pages. Unfortunately it rarely happens. So
that is a nice task for a volunteer to go through and update the pages
(very easy to do, and a welcome contribution!).

> * Sidebar is being pushed to the bottom of the page
>     I notived this when I was using chrome, but it seems to work correctly
> in firefox. I tried to debug this issue, but cannot seem to figure it out.

No idea here... in Chromium it also happens.
Likely an update of the Mediawiki version would help here. The GRASS
GIS project uses a more recent version, no such issue there:
http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Main_Page

Best
Markus