On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 1:11 PM, Florian Effenberger wrote: >> Foswiki conversion extension for MediaWiki: >> http://foswiki.org/Extensions/MediaWikiToFoswikiContrib > > if there's anything I'd like to avoid at ANY price, it's a migration to a > new wiki. We make heavy use of MediaWiki extensions, and migrating that to > another wiki will cost us MONTHS of work, in the worst case.
This was one of the major reasons behind not migrating the OOo wiki (a few years ago). Some things that people are maybe not considering when they say that WYSIWYG editor is a make/break for the LibreOffice Wiki: - MediaWiki is not obscure. This is the Wiki engine that drives Wikipedia. If "normal" people manage to contribute to Wikipeidia by the millions, I'm sure that the same people are smart enough to handle the exact same Wiki engine on the LibreOffice Wiki. - There are many extensions in use on the current MediaWiki that are often not easily duplicated on a new Wiki engine. A migration to a new Wiki will mean that every page in the 3.3Gb of data will need to be validated and in many cases rewritten - the migration tools cannot (usually) handle the custom code syntax that is linked to the many extensions in use. These exceptions (on a huge number of pages) will have to be manually migrated... page by page. - There is a MediaWiki extension for LibreOffice. Why not promote the use of that extension? If it's not good enough, then it should/could be tagged for improvement (GSOC maybe?). > I'd rather prefer some developer looking into the code of the existing > WYSIWYG extensions for MediaWiki to make it work with 1.21. This is a much better option. The issue is not that there is no WYSIWYG editor, just that the currently available ones do not work with the latest Wiki engine. That's something that can be solved with a LOT less effort than what would be required for a full on migration. - As Florian noted (and linked), there is a new WYSIWYG editor in development. (works fine in Chrome on Linux by the way) All this is not to say a migration is a bad idea... but you have to realize the incredible amount of work this will require. I think Florian is being kind and underestimating the work by saying "MONTHS". C. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/website/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
