On Apr 8, 2005 9:59 PM, John Fader <jfader(a)gmail.com> wrote:
That would only be a problem if some hosting service
allowed you php,
mysql and to install mediawiki, but wouldn't let you make ordinary
user cronjobs.
That doesn't sound at all unlikely, to be honest. Remember that
MediaWiki has a web-based install, so you can install with nothing
more than FTP access, as long as there are writable directories and a
MySQL server you can point it at [in fact, I think most things will
run without a writable directory, to be honest]. And judging from
postings on mediawiki-l, plenty do.
Besides which, creating a cron job is hardly in the same league,
user-friendly-wise, as, say, enabling a particular setting to allow
editting in Special:InterMap. There are plenty of people who install
MediaWiki who have no "developer"-style expertise, so from their point
of view the more tasks that can be achieved in an "admin"-style the
better.
--
Rowan Collins BSc
[IMSoP]