Hi! On 12 April 2016 at 09:17, Sebastian Silva <[email protected]> wrote:
> One thing that hasn't been mentioned is that, although we could do > better, the wiki and the mailing list are among the *things that work*. > Right, that's why I am focusing on reforming them :) Kindly, the wiki and the mailing lists are stale. They were set up many years ago, and I think that if SL was being set up today it would be set up differently. I'm curious, what things do you think do not work? > Frederick Grose has been on top of the Mediawiki from the web-admin > point of view and is quite knowledgeable of it. > I'm afraid a longer different-to-wikipedia process might be a chore to > set up with little return of investment. > I don't suggest turning the wiki read-only until it is clear that it is no longer being contributed to. Like bugs.sl.o to github, https://github.com/sugarlabs/www-sugarlabs and https://developer.sugarlabs.org already started the move from wiki to markdown-on-github, and I'm advocating for completing it. > El 12/04/16 a las 07:58, Dave Crossland escribió: > > > > +1 > > > > Who will set this up on the SL servers, and when? :) > > As with all volunteer projects, those who do the work decide how (and > when) it's done. I don't think this is low hanging, or even fruit. > If no one wants to do it, I think Github Pages + Jeykll wins, because the only systems administration effort is required is setting the DNS records. Who controls the DNS records? > For what it's worth I wrote some tools some time ago to extract > wikipages from MediaWiki into plain text structure: > https://git.sugarlabs.org/somosazucar/spamblaster > > One issue with this is that MediaWikiText is not Markdown. Then there > are images, tables, etc. > Did you consider http://pandoc.org ? :) -- Cheers Dave
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