On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 07:09 +0200, ext Alan Coopersmith wrote: > Oliver McFadden wrote: > > Right, that's true. I would suggest switching over to MediaWiki at some > > point though. This could of course be after cleaning up the docs. > > I like MediaWiki too, at least from the user perspective, but X.Org's wiki > is hosted by freedesktop.org, who leverages the admin effort of maintaining > the wiki software across a number of sites (x.org, fd.o, fontconfig.org, > etc.), > so it's not entirely up to us, nor fair of us to demand a change unless the > other hosted wiki's are up for it too.
Yeah, this is fair enough. > Any wiki migration is a huge pain of document conversion, since no two > wiki markup languages are exactly alike. I'm reasonably sure I remember there being scripts to convert from most formats into MediaWiki's syntax -- although how reliable they are is another story. But yeah, there would probably be some manual work involved. -- Oliver. _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
