On 26 December 2012 16:12, Pedro Giffuni <p...@apache.org> wrote: > > > > > Da: janI > ... > >Oggetto: Re: [mwiki] IS DOWN FOR DB MAINTENANCE for the next couple of > hours !!!! > > > >@pedro: thx, that can save quite some time if it works. > > > >@dave: nice to know that you are admin, so you can help provide e.g. a > list > >of pages. > > > > Two things here: > > The conversor is one way only: to CWiki. Conversion is known to be > imperfect > and a lot of content would be lost. OTOH, it is also understood that a lot > of > MWiki content is obsolete and needs to be cleaned out anyway. > ok so we cannot use this if we go the mwiki way.
> > For conversion of the math stuff the documentation of the plugin states > that > CWiki could be helped by the use of a latex plugin. > > > >We had a discussion a while ago about moving the cwiki content, once the > >mwiki was upgraded, so I guess now is about the right time to take a > >decision. I will initiate that shortly. > > > > From a licensing perspective the MWiki content is a can of worms. > This may or may not be important as this is not included in releases > but the general consensus was to keep the MWiki content contained > and only accept ALv2 content from now on. > We should have put our ALv2 license in place long time ago, there is a separate policy page for that. That has not happened and therefore all content is totally without any license (except of course those that have explecitly written something). Please do not mix the mediawiki license with the contents license. As far as I can judge (but I am no expert) mwiki provides more facilities than cwiki in respect of graphics, and in the discussion (see earlier mail thread) everybody seemed convinced that mwiki was the future and cwiki was old (I cannot judge those statements). > > There is also a huge -1 in the current MWiki for me: if MWiki is > here to stay ldap access must be enabled so that committers > have access to it without opening a new account. > I cannot agree more about ldap access...but I actually had the same problem with cwiki, we are not all committers !! When I consider the user base is about 6.200 (after spam removal) and only a small fraction are committers, I would place ldap as important, but a reason for a -1. > > Just thought I'd point those things out :) > It is good to hear opinions that is why we have the mailing lists. As for me I just maintain it and are no huge contributor, so in my opinion let those who makes lots of content decide. Jan I. > > Pedro. > >
