On Tue, 2004-09-07 at 21:50 -0700, Matt Kraai wrote: > Would it be possible for you to work with the administrators of > wiki.debian.net to transition that site to MediaWiki? >
There are some old conversion scripts and a python bot framework for MediaWiki, so there should be a way to do an automated conversion. MediaWiki doesn't support CamelCase, from what i've seen that's the biggest change markup-wise. Page urls would also change, when moving the page after import a redirect is automatically created to keep the old url working. According to http://wiki.debian.net/index.cgi?action=search there are 1581 pages in the debian.net wiki, so even a manual import might be a viable option. When Wikipedia switched from CamelCase to [[Free from links]] the conversion was mostly done manually, and there were much more pages. I believe that a more official status of the wiki could help a lot to make the wiki more popular (more users, more content etc). Offering database downloads as we do on Wikipedia and a debian.org subdomain might also help this. -- Gabriel Wicke
