Re: The sad state of git.wiki.kernel.org

From: Andrei Rybak <rybak.a.v@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 4, 2023, 13:13 UTC
Message-ID: <fa2abffa-1a35-367c-d59b-257c37d18a5f@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <Y95BEaOGJy9uBHkG@coredump.intra.peff.net>

On 04/02/2023 12:27, Jeff King wrote:

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> On Fri, Feb 03, 2023 at 01:22:55PM -0500, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:
> 
>> Today, most information found on the wiki is probably outdated and therefore
>> potentially harmful. I would like to solicit ideas what to do with this
>> resource.
> 
> Yeah, my assumption is that it's totally out of date these days. I admit
> that's subjective and maybe there are people maintaining/using it. I
> kind of suspect not, though (and if they don't reply to this thread,
> perhaps we can assume they don't exist, or at least not connected enough
> to the development community to matter).

My knowledge of MediaWiki is not good enough to give a definitive answer, but it seems that active editing stopped at the end of 2021.

One of most actively edited articles seems to be "GitHosting":

   https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php?title=GitHosting&action=history

It seems that it is mostly edited by editors who are promoting Git hosting they are affiliated with. Article "Interfaces, frontends, and tools" also got a lot of edits in 2020 and some in 2021:

   https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php?title=Interfaces,_frontends,_and_tools&action=history

Diff of the latest edit on the article "Git" is a bit telling:

   https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php?title=Git&diff=31274&oldid=8420

Website https://git-scm.com existed in some form since at least 2008, current website's initial commit dates to 2012-03-06, but the article "Git" on the wiki didn't have a link to it until 2019. The article also hasn't been edited at all between 2010 and 2019.