From: J.H. Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 18:56:40 GMT Subject: Re: [RFC] Git Wiki Move Message-ID: <4B4F68E8.5050809@eaglescrag.net> In-Reply-To: On 01/14/2010 02:35 AM, Matthieu Moy wrote: > "J.H." 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