Am Dienstag, dem 26.08.2025 um 16:00 +0000 schrieb Steffen Möller via Emc-developers: > > > Some bits like links to videos etc I consider to be well addressed by > a wiki. > Other bits seem like they would also nicely fit into our > documentation. > And yet other parts again are completely outdated, indeed, with stale > links. > > I have no immediate idea, maybe an incremental transition into the > documentation > would be feasible, as in "every wiki page a PR", the wiki page then > points to > that PR and is removed upon its acceptance.
I see the wiki as something to store information in an ad-hoc more informal way than the official documentation. E.g. solutions that are "developed" on the forum should IMHO be put on the wiki, links to individual machine configs etc... As it is now, the wiki is more or less non-functional, and the type of markup used becomes more and more exotic. Then there is the issue of non-working HTTPS on wiki.linuxcnc.org, and nobody seems to know who has administrative rights that would be needed to fix that. So I had the idea to look at the feasibility of migrating the content to github wiki, as long as any kind of migration is still possible in this world. There the content lives in a git repository, can be cloned / edited / PRed etc..., and if in the future github became non-viable for whatever reason (it is owned by microsoft after all), the markdown format is universally understood by alternative wiki engines and other document formatting software, so no lock-in there. Maybe that could renew user-interest in the wiki and reduce "noise" on the forum. I'm curious what the opinions are on this proposal to migrate the wiki to github? -- Robert Schöftner <r...@unfoo.net> _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
