Re: [PLUG] Migrating content - MediaWiki or WordPress?
On Tue, 7 Mar 2023, Keith Lofstrom wrote: So - which format may be less prone to long term bit-rot and security fails, MediaWiki or WordPress? What will be easier for a future disciple (if any) to host and expand on their own website? This seems like asking which 1980 BBS system or Usenet UUCP mailing list is easiest to migrate to Twitter. It is difficult to make predictions, especially about the future. You're asking which publication software will last, which seems an odd question because yo want to know about keeping your content alive, not about keeping its current html presentation. If I were asking, my question would concern which markup language will be most resistant to deprecation over the next several years. Were I betting, I'd say markdown currently has the inside track for longevity since it's github's current markup of choice -- and several other content generators can use it as well. This assumes that you don't have dynamic content of a sort that requires an database that can be queried. If that's the case, I have no answer for you. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°22'48" N, 122°35'36" W
[PLUG] Migrating content - MediaWiki or WordPress?
I've written and hosted my own content on the web for decades. Originally cobbled-together html, more recently MoinMoin wiki. Someday I will be too gorked to maintain a website. I hope that the ideas I've already described on my wiki will (somehow) endure, in some form, far into the future. So, I ponder migrating NOW to more secure and transportable formats. Perhaps WordPress, but MediaWiki might be easier for me to use (I already do small bugfixes to Wikipedia). I don't need to blog, nor host discussions, or operate mailing lists, and DEFINITELY not add trashy advertisements. Long term survival of the content will probably rely on the Internet Archive, archive.org, and the related document and book archive (to which I've donated half a ton of books and sound media, so far). So - which format may be less prone to long term bit-rot and security fails, MediaWiki or WordPress? What will be easier for a future disciple (if any) to host and expand on their own website? This seems like asking which 1980 BBS system or Usenet UUCP mailing list is easiest to migrate to Twitter. It is difficult to make predictions, especially about the future. Keith L. -- Keith Lofstrom kei...@keithl.com
