On 08/11/2016 12:01 PM, Dan Roberts wrote: > All else being equal, I'm all for cutting costs, but things don't appear > equal. Migrating the wiki to Github could be a massive undertaking. I > participated in exactly this migration with the Namecoin project and it was > a royal pain. Github's mediawiki syntax support was incomplete at the time, > and pandoc failed to completely translate the pages, leaving heaps of > manual work for us, even in Namecoin's small wiki. > > How big is the maintenance burden? How much are these costs? When funds > were nearly depleted, I recall someone mentioned server costs were low > enough that we could operate effectively indefinitely on the remaining ~3k. > If true, this sounds like a ton of work to increase our dependency and > trust on/of third parties. > > I am also quite opposed to further centralizing in Github, but that is > mostly offset by the security concerns regarding running our own mediawiki.
Agreed.
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