1. Replacing the Confluence Wiki We know what wiki we would prefer (Wikimedia) but there are constraints on supporting it that Corinthia is probably not equipped to satisfy.
With regard to the MoinMoin wiki that is also supported at ASF, the problem seems to be one of responsiveness. It has the advantage that one can prepare text off line and one can rescue the wikiText form of content if ever needed. My concern for the current wiki is it appears to be totally captive and anything committed to it lies in that embrace forever. (The export functions are to limited forms and it is not clear they are a good way to produce content while working off-line.) 2. Continuing to Use Confluence Confluence authoring is apparently required to be in a browser (or via the REST API, which is too much of a reach). I would love to find out that is not the case, but I have failed to determine what the plaintext form of text submission is, and the help button is not useful in knowing otherwise. It appears from the documentation that the canonical form of the content is XML and can be used to backup and restore pages. I guess this means proceed at your own risk. 3. Cutting the Knot? So I started using the JIRA as a way to capture ideas and notes until there is better understanding of Atlassian Confluence and the Gliffy Confluence Plugin. As far as I am concerned, Confluence is a CMS, it is highly captive and it is not like any wiki I have ever seen. I think we should tilt to using the web site more and the wiki less. I do see that one can presumably use Confluence as a blog in some manner. (Unfortunately they no longer except XML-RPC from blog authoring tools.) That might be worth considering for simple content. - Dennis -----Original Message----- From: jan i [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, January 18, 2015 00:31 To: [email protected] Subject: change if wiki ? Hi It seems the wiki discussion died out. Is somebody working on finding a replacement ? If work is ongoing then that is fine, if not, I would say we have what we have let us live with it until we graduate. My reason for asking is that I would like to correct the texts and make a preliminary, which of course will be discussed and corrected. thoughts? jan i -- Sent from My iPad, sorry for any misspellings.
