What's next for the Debian Wiki? (was Re: wiki.d.o on a git-backed engine)

Folks,

Recently a discussion on -devel branched into the topic of the Debian
Wiki (the particular sub-topic was the wish from some to have a 
git-backed wiki). Some felt that this discussion should be moved off 
-devel, and others pointed out that the Wiki maintainers themselves 
should be made aware, and that debian-www@ was the correct place for
that.

Discussions/desires to enhance or evolve the Wiki are nothing new, and
previous discussions exist in many other places¹. Debian being Debian,
that will always be the case. And rather than try to stamp out 
discussion in the "wrong" place, it seems to me a better approach might 
be to try and summarize the varied discussions, desires, requirements 
and proposals: and the Wiki itself is a good place for that, IMHO.

To that end, I've created DebianWiki/NextGen, and made an initial 
attempt to summarize the current live threads I'm aware of:
<https://wiki.debian.org/DebianWiki/NextGen>. I'll try to update it, and 
contributions are welcome.

I'm sending this (primarily) to debian-www@ as that's the right place 
for Wiki discussions, by convention, and to be sure the Wiki maintainers 
see it.

And so on to my 2p's worth: A lot of the discussion I've seen focussed 
on (a) narrow list of problems (moin 1.9.x, Python 2), (b) advocates 
solutions (e.g. mediawiki) and (c) makes assumptions (we must migrate 
all the content in perfect fidelity if we move wiki engine) which might 
not hold. I feel we should spend some time thinking hard about what we 
want from the Debian Wiki, i.e., a good old-fashioned requirements 
analysis, before we look at (b) or (c).

I'm particularly keen that the Wiki maintainers are in the loop (hence 
this mail), but also the current set of active wiki contributors.


[1] <https://salsa.debian.org/debian/grow-your-ideas/-/issues/2>

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