Wiki links?

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 10:40:22PM +0000, Caroline Ford wrote:
> Matthew East wrote:
> > You should probably read https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HelpOnLinking before
> > giving out misinformation like that - there are several convenient ways to
> > make links using MoinMoin, including [url linktext], ["pagename"] or
> > [:pagename:linktext].
> >   
> I've no desire to get into a flame war on this thing and should have 
> ignored the question. I'm not familar with all the various ways of 
> linking in MoinMoin as I think it's an awful piece of software and don't 
> use it. As a wikipedian I find it really painful and I still don't 
> understand why we use it and even put in for google summer of code money 
> for it. My best guess is that it's because it's written in python.

That's a part of the reason, yes.  As I recall, the other part of the
original decision was that the administrators of our infrastructure objected
to running PHP applications on public-facing servers.

At this point, there's a massive amount of content there, and I doubt that
it's feasible to migrate it.

-- 
 - mdz