Wiki Stats - End May 2011
The total number of pages in the Wiki (as at 1 June 2011) has grown to 3172 (previously 2940, 2661, 2644), an increase of 232 pages. Of these 1132 pages (was 1034, 935, 928) begin with the letter R and are probably related to a R*v*s individual and 463 pages (413, 305, 282) begin with a number, so are probably a date related gleaning. We currently have 1237 wiki pages categorised as "People" of which 926 begin with the letter R.It's pleasing to see the strong growth in new Wiki pages continues. Early in May we added our three thousandth page, having passed 2500 in early January 2011.
Finding TRP
As you know we're gradually coming out of stealth mode. Since last month TRP now shows up in search results from all three major search engines, Google, Yahoo and Bing. Google currently sees the Home Page, About Us and Contact Us; Yahoo & Bing just the Home Page. Try searching for "The Reeves Project" (not TRP) and see what your favourite search engine shows. The vast majority of our other pages are also publicly available if you know the url, but as yet search engines have no way to find and hence index them. (See Martin's Month below).Browser Support
Did you notice that Google have signalled their intention not to support older versions of browsers?See http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2011/06/our-plans-to-support-modern-browsers.html for the full details.
Clearly this article only relates to Google's applications, but it does high-light a growing trend amongst web developers. The folks at Tiki.org who are responsible for the wiki software we are using have similar plans, although a little less aggressive. With the next version of TikiWiki (version 7) they will remove support for Internet Explorer version 6. Now there's no need to panic just yet, since it will be a while yet before we consider a move to TikiWiki version 7; our next move will probably be to TW version 6.x.
But if you are using an older version of a browser you are putting your computer at greater risk of being infected by mal-ware. And don't be lulled into a false sense of security, by thinking you always keep your anti-virus software up to date. There are always new zero-day exploits surfacing. These are new exploits for which the vendor hasn't yet produced a patch for their software and it always takes the anti-virus community a period of time to respond as well.
Out of curiosity, I checked what browsers and versions had accessed TRP in the two week period ending Friday 3 June. We had 2 visits from IE6, 32 from IE7, 74 from IE8 and 1 from IE9. In the same two week period we had 15 visits from FireFox 3.6.17 and 49 from FF4.0.1, both of which are up to date versions. We had 6 visitors using Google Chrome version 11.0.696.68 and 1 using version 12.0.706.0 (I suspect these were from one of my machines). We also had 13 visits from a browser only identified as a "Mozilla Compatible Agent" version 5; I suspect this is a user with Safari version 5.
These visits can't be linked to individual registered users and of course some may be from anonymous users.
But if you are still using IE6 or IE7, now would be a good time to think about planning your next browser upgrade.