On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 4:41 PM, Kay Schenk <kay.sch...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 10:39 AM, Pedro F. Giffuni <giffu...@tutopia.com > >wrote: > > > > > > > --- On Tue, 9/27/11, Kay Schenk <kay.sch...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > As Rob Weir has put it ... > > ... > > > > > > > > So obviously there is limited volunteer bandwidth to > > > > migrate the wiki. > > > > And I've heard from several people, on and off > > > > the list, that much of what is on the wiki is > > > > not very useful. > > > > > > > > > > uh, well...I don't know bout this. I was under the > > > impression that MUCH of developer info was here. > > > Others would need to weigh in but I think it was > > > widely used because of the ease of use. > > > > > Just my word of advice: > > > > Check the MediaWiki at http://ooo-wiki.apache.org/ > > > > If we take out information about Hg (dead), > > the Development Teams and Projects (which will have to > > be reorganized), Old News, the issue tracker ... > > > > Is the information left worth it to run through a > > MW-->CWiki conversion effort? > > > > Yes, the projects need some reorganization, but I doubt if all the > development stuff should be removed. It simply hasn't gone anywhere -- yet. > The problem is NOT the conversion effort (a one time deal) but the > maintenance effort. > > *IF* someone(s) would step up to be the MW guru, there wouldn't be an issue > but we're outside the "infra" workings. > Well then we should look for that guru. So far I havent event seen clearly what things do we actually need. Maybe we need to come to the decision we need to get a MW administrator. Clayton was our administrator, if he want to train the new administrator then we wont need such a guru. AFAIK he left open the option of doing some light mentoring on the administration. > > > > I think given the license situation we should just > > leave that stuff as read-only for now and do all new > > work on CWiki (or MoinMoin). > > > > Well OK, good enough and I would agree with this. > After looking at the old wiki this am, it seems someone from the "es" area > has made quite a few changes/additions, and the front page itself had been > modified this am. Of course, there was that "throw pillows" page > addition??! > > and ps. Does anyone here actually know HOW to put the old wiki in > read-only??? > Usually to do a backup of the wiki, you are supposed to make it read only. Is a configuration line in the .conf file. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Backing_up_a_wiki > > > > Pedro. > > > > > > > -- > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > MzK > > "There is no such thing as coincidence." > -- Leroy Jethro Gibbs, Rule #39 > -- *Alexandro Colorado* *OpenOffice.org* Español http://es.openoffice.org fingerprint: E62B CF77 1BEA 0749 C0B8 50B9 3DE6 A84A 68D0 72E6
