[ubuntu-za] Switch to Mediawiki

[Jan Groenewald]

Hi

On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 03:01:35PM +0200, Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) wrote:
>  * More users are familiar with Mediawiki
>  * Mediawiki is more intuitive
>  * Mediawiki is easier to maintain (especially to upgrade)
>  * Mediawiki has great plugins (OpenID, captchas, etc)

The only one that is convincing (to me) is the last one, plugins.

> The downside would be that we would have to migrate the data from Moin
> to Mediawiki first. I haven't checked whether there's an automated tool
> to do this yet, but the worst case scenario is that we'll have to
> manually copy and paste the content. The downside to that will be that
> we would lose our revisions.

There should be converters, if not, not such a great loss -- it a is a
fairly young wiki without revisions of very high value.

I'm interested, what good python wiki(s) are there? Anyone?
I have thoughts of moving wikis at work, don't find mediawiki intuitive, hate
PHP, etc. etc... (but recently was very impressed by a few plugins).

Jan

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