Re: [RFC] Git Wiki Move

From: J.H. <warthog19@eaglescrag.net>
Date: Jan 14, 2010, 18:56 UTC
Message-ID: <4B4F68E8.5050809@eaglescrag.net>
In-Reply-To: <vpqbpgxrn32.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>

On 01/14/2010 02:35 AM, Matthieu Moy wrote:

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> "J.H." <warthog19@eaglescrag.net> writes:
> 
>> Just a heads up I've got an initial import of the current wiki up at
>> http://git.wiki.kernel.org - some of it was quite a clean conversion,
>> some of it not so much.  Please note that user accounts were not carried
>> over but edit histories were.  I'll work on cleaning up the rest of if
>> tomorrow, assuming that there isn't any objections to Petr's e-mail
>> above.
> 
> My only objection would be "Oh, migrating to another wiki engine will
> be much conversion work", but if you're willing to do it ;-).

It unfortunately goes with the territory, though I'll admit the Moinmoin -> Mediawiki was the first conversion I've seen where even Mediawiki said:

	There are a number of hacky scripts for this. They are all
	defective in various ways - anyone who does this job does it
	precisely once, so there's no-one who really maintains a good
	converter script.

> This page seems to be an interesting test-case:
> http://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/GitFaq
> full of miss-imported formatting, links, ...

That's not actually the worst,

http://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/GitRelatedLogos

even after I've cleaned up a chunk of it is still pretty bad.

- John 'Warthog9' Hawley