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** PHP 7.3.33 (EOL 2021-12) | ** PHP 7.3.33 (EOL 2021-12) | ||
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* Cloudflare DDOS protection makes wiki edits fail sometimes. | * Cloudflare DDOS protection makes wiki edits fail sometimes. | ||
* There is no WYSIWYG editor. | * There is no WYSIWYG editor. | ||
* The wiki infrastructure, which was supposed to be made public after launch, never ended-up being made public. | |||
We tried to address these issues multiple times over multiple years across multiple channels (email, matrix). We never got a direct answer. The last point of contact was made through zimbatm representing the NixOS foundation, asking the maintainer about possible cooperation on a new wiki. The answer was no. With the old wiki deteriorating and the maintainer unresponsive, forking the content into a new wiki remained the only way forward. | We tried to address these issues multiple times over multiple years across multiple channels (email, matrix). We never got a direct answer. The last point of contact was made through zimbatm representing the NixOS foundation, asking the maintainer about possible cooperation on a new wiki. The answer was no. With the old wiki deteriorating and the maintainer unresponsive, forking the content into a new wiki remained the only way forward. | ||
Also see: https://nixos.wiki/wiki/User:Winny/WikiRisks | Also see: | ||
* https://nixos.wiki/wiki/User:Winny/WikiRisks | |||
* https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/495011-redirect-to-wiki-nixos-org (trivial userscript to redirect nixos.wiki links here) | |||
== Why is Nix written in C++ rather than a functional language like Haskell? == | == Why is Nix written in C++ rather than a functional language like Haskell? == | ||