Henning Thielemann wrote:
How long will the Wiki account registration be disabled? Would it be possible to ask a question, that real Haskellers could easily answer, but a spambot cannot? E.g. "What's Haskell's surname?"
It will be re-enabled when an appropriate extension to MediaWiki is installed. An appropriate extension will be installed when MediaWiki is upgraded to a version that supports that. MediaWiki will be upgraded when PHP and MySQL are upgraded. MySQL cannot easily be upgraded on the existing distribution (RHEL AS 3 update 9 with Linux 2.4.21), as various other packages depend on the current version. MySQL will be upgraded when we have a more up-to-date distribution (for instance, Debian 4.0). http://haskell.org/pipermail/haskell/2009-January/020916.html We will have a more up-to-date distribution when a new machine takes over from the existing machine at Yale. I don't know when anyone will have a new machine. This is an overview of which machine does what: http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Haskell.org_domain -- Ashley Yakeley