From: "J.H." <warthog19@eaglescrag•net>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx•de>
Cc: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse•cz>, git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Git Wiki Move
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 10:52:35 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B4F67F3.8000202@eaglescrag.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.1001141136450.4985@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
On 01/14/2010 02:43 AM, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, 14 Jan 2010, J.H. wrote:
>
>> 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...
>
>>> (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?
Used a conversion script form a dump from Petr, needless to say it wa
sthe one generally recommended by mediawiki and even their commentary on
it was "It's the least bad" basically
> I note that "<<<!-- ! TOC here -->(2)>>" could be converted to "__TOC__",
> I believe.
I'll have to go in behind and track those down, should be easy enough to
find / fix.
>> 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'm fine with dealing with those on an individual basis, and it would be
good for people to re-create their accounts as soon as possible.
>> 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.
Now you've got a solid wiki to work with that's pertinent ;-)
- John 'Warthog9' Hawley
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-14 18:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-13 23:29 [ANNOUNCE] Git wiki & repo.or.cz migration, donations and volunteers pledge Petr Baudis
2010-01-14 1:24 ` [RFC] Git Wiki Move Petr Baudis
2010-01-14 10:28 ` J.H.
2010-01-14 10:35 ` Matthieu Moy
2010-01-14 18:56 ` J.H.
2010-01-15 23:18 ` J.H.
2010-01-15 23:21 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-01-15 23:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-01-16 0:05 ` J.H.
2010-01-16 0:02 ` J.H.
2010-01-16 0:08 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-01-16 0:12 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-01-16 0:28 ` J.H.
2010-01-16 0:44 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-01-16 1:18 ` J.H.
2010-01-16 10:17 ` Clemens Buchacher
2010-01-17 12:00 ` Matthieu Moy
2010-01-17 23:06 ` Johannes Schindelin
2010-01-18 0:43 ` J.H.
2010-01-18 9:53 ` Johannes Schindelin
2010-01-18 12:03 ` Johannes Schindelin
2010-01-18 18:47 ` J.H.
2010-01-18 20:46 ` Johannes Schindelin
2010-01-21 21:35 ` Petr Baudis
2010-01-22 0:21 ` Jakub Narebski
2010-01-22 0:31 ` Petr Baudis
2010-01-22 0:39 ` Johannes Schindelin
2010-01-14 10:43 ` Johannes Schindelin
2010-01-14 11:01 ` Johannes Schindelin
2010-01-14 18:52 ` J.H. [this message]
2010-01-14 10:48 ` Petr Baudis
2010-01-14 11:03 ` Johannes Schindelin
2010-02-12 11:38 ` Petr Baudis
2010-01-14 10:48 ` Wincent Colaiuta
2010-01-15 17:17 ` Joey Hess
2010-01-15 19:16 ` Johannes Schindelin
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