When I look at the preceding mail in this thread, I see a lot of god suggestions....but it seems its all still open, or did I miss a point.
Regarding streamlining Mwiki, - there are no real proposals to reduce the number of catagories - it seems that everybody agrees on marking old pages (with "outdate" or "needs update" marker), however the definition of these pages seems to be a discussion point. Regarding moving cwiki to wiki. - There seemed to be general consensus to move the pages, however there seems to be a discussion whether to keep Cwiki as "scratch paper". - It is also remarkable (at least to me), that there seems to be a big difference in saying and doing....meaning that our cwiki still get new pages, even from people who I understood supported a move. - For the actual transfer, there seems to several options, from the most radical (and interesting): Freeze, build a new wiki (and web), to more or less do nothing. I have also noted, that no one have opted to help with this undertaking. So I assume that, due to the fact that its hard to impossible to see what to do and be within consensus, it is simpler to do nothing ? Rgds Jan I. Ps. being a developer I do not see the filter (cwiki -> mwiki) as a major challenge, compared with changing the will/habit of people :-) On 9 February 2013 19:16, David Gerard <dger...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 8 February 2013 21:52, Andrea Pescetti <pesce...@apache.org> wrote: > > >> - Move cwiki to mwiki. > >> this has been discussed/decided earlier, but might need a positive > >> decision. > > > I agree, we can progressively move stuff by turning pages into redirects > to > > the MWiki. This may take time but could be the less problematic way (for > > example, I had created the FOSDEM pages on the cwiki but they should be > > moved to the mwiki since other FOSDEM pages are archived there). A > drastic > > redirect could confuse people who are actively working on some pages, > like > > the logo discussions. > > Is there some filter to allow smooth translation of cwiki syntax? > > > There appear to be no commonly-available filters to move pages in bulk > from Confluence to MediaWiki, preserving links and formatting. > > The general problem is that anyone who moves a wiki from one engine to > another does the job precisely once, so there's no-one who really > maintains a good converter script, and the knowledge doesn't > accumulate (as it does in an ongoing open-source project). > > That said, there are people who do want to move from Confluence to > MediaWiki and end up doing it by a quick hack without the knowledge > accumulating. So if you do go for an automated method and come up with > a script, please do put the details and script up on > http://mediawiki.org , and others with the same problem in the future > will be grateful. > > > - d. >
