Tobias Wendorff wrote: > Hi there, > > why don't you use MediaWiki for the Mapnik website? > > I had been on a meeting over the last days and we've discussed the bad > documentation of Mapnik. The result was, the people can't identify with > the TRAC-system and that's why nobody likes to write Mapnik-tutorials > and other HowTos. > > Would you be interested in migrating to MediaWiki and would it make > sense from your point of view? > > Best regards, > Tobias
By Identify, do you mean login and have edit permissions? That can be solved, and I would think would be the 1st thing to try. Trac's built in wiki is actually quite easy to use, and in my experience can provide better communication between the development end the user end as link's between the ticket system, commits and wiki pages can be created very quickly. I always hesitate at the suggestion of adding an additional software component because it brings a lot of extra issues. Could you address some of these: 1. Who will host,run,maintain the Mediawiki instance & database 2. Who will manage the Wiki site, keep spam off, make sure there is sensible navigation, prevent too many orphan pages from, etc (Wiki Gnoming) 3. What features does it provide that are new and very necessary? In this case many Trac plugins exist to provide similar function to MediaWiki. 4.It could never be a true migration since MediaWiki can't do issue tracking, commit log stuff so both would exist. Would this confuse users looking for information? Thanks, Alex _______________________________________________ Mapnik-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/mapnik-users
