Re: About the project

Florent Daigniere <[email protected]> Wed, 10 Aug 2016 10:37:37 +0200
Newsgroups	gmane.network.freenet.devel
Message-ID	<[email protected]>
On Wed, 2016-08-10 at 00:02 +0000, Ian Clarke wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 5:53 PM, Arne Babenhauserheide arne_bab-S0/[email protected]
> wrote:As long as there is no one who pledges to transition the whole
> wiki and
> 
> has a history of delivering on his or her pledges, transitioning the
> wiki is a dumb idea.
> I don't mind if the existing wiki stays around,

I do. Because that will only increase the sysadmin's load.

>  however the important pages should be moved to a scalable solution
> that doesn't depend on us for devops.
> And you're smoking crack if you think that the MediaWiki syntax is
> more popular
> than Markdown, perhaps 10 years ago, definitely not today.

It's not like if there was no history here...

https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/2010-October/034875.html

https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/2010-January/033869.html

https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/2010-January/033880.html
I love the part where you wrote: "the obvious thing would be to host it
on Emu"

https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/2009-October/033605.html
And when I get ignored for suggesting "What about switching everything
back to SF?"

https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/2009-June/032436.html
It's not like if you didn't support mediawiki at the time ^ That was
not 10y ago.

https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/2009-May/032334.html

https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/2009-April/031571.html
And years after I'm still one of those keeping the lights on.
Maybe I'm the fool after all.

>  Almost nobody uses
> MediaWiki except for Wikipedia, and they use it because they're stuck
> with it,
> since it would be impractical to migrate at this point.
> Ian.
> 

We are already in that situation too. The license of the wiki-content
has not been clarified since last migration... Just like the website,
if you want to move on, don't call it a migration. The last thing we
need is three wiki instances!

Florent
PS: it would be great if this thread remained on topic

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