Re: [RFC] Git Wiki Move

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jan 14, 2010, 10:43 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.1001141136450.4985@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <4B4EF1E0.3040808@eaglescrag.net>

Hi,

On Thu, 14 Jan 2010, J.H. wrote:

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> On 01/13/2010 05:24 PM, Petr Baudis wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 12:29:08AM +0100, Petr Baudis wrote:
> >> I would like to notify you that unfortunately, Czech UPC terminated 
> >> the sponsorship of the hardware and connectivity hosting the Git Wiki 
> >> and repo.or.cz (after generously donating it for several years).
> > 
> >   ...please scratch the Git Wiki part, you would be supporting just 
> > repo.or.cz - we are considering to move the Git wiki to 
> > wiki.kernel.org MediaWiki installation and I would like to ask if 
> > anyone disagrees with this. The motivation is that:
> > 
> > 	(i) wiki.kernel.org is actually maintained! Thus, there should be 
> > 	less spam or upgrade issues and better support in case of problems.
> > 
> > 	(ii) Also, I personally think MediaWiki is so much nicer than 
> > 	ikiwiki...

... not to mention than MoinMoin...

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> > 	(iii) ...and OBTW, no CamelCase!
> > 
> >   Of course, there will be compatibility redirects.
> 
> 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.

Did you use a script? And did you leech the sources, or did you get a dump?

I note that "<<(2)>>" could be converted to "__TOC__", I believe.

> Please note that user accounts were not carried over but edit histories 
> were.

IIUC there are no email addresses stored in the Git Wiki, so I think that we'll have to live with that. You might get the occasional complaint of a stolen account.

> I'll work on cleaning up the rest of if tomorrow, assuming that there 
> isn't any objections to Petr's e-mail above.

I like it. Especially since there is a fun project waiting for me to get some time to do it, to convert the full history of a MediaWiki instance into a Git repository. Maybe via the git-remote* mechanism, once Sverre and Ilari manage to flush out the last remnants of clumsy design.

Ciao, Dscho