Re: preserving the links to the wiki

On Tuesday, February 21, 2017 08:54:20 AM Arne Babenhauserheide wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Florent just warned again, that the clock on osprey (all our
> non-standard hosting) is ticking. If we don’t act, this means that all
> links to the wiki stop working.

I've read the IRC discussion, and I don't see any reason why our server should 
go down except the fact that it looks like Florent isn't in the mood anymore 
to maintain it and thus threatens to pull the plug on it when the new site 
goes live.
There is at least one other person willing to maintain/host it, he should just 
ask who wants to deal with it instead of treating it like his personal kingdom 
which must go down with him.

With regards to the issue of paying it:
I'm even at the point where I am so scared of the potentially happening 
nuclear act of destroying our codebase's maintainability by deleting the 
bugtracker that I would actually consider paying for the a server myself if 
Ian really doesn't want FPI to do so (albeit please be aware that I've 
severely damaged my finances by volunteering for over a year, which was worth 
thousands of dollars, and continuing to do so, so I'd be happy if I don't have 
to, or if at least someone else paid a part).
Hell, the project HAS $25k which we cannot even manage to spend, we could 
probably pay a server for decades...
So money isn't an issue as well.

So anyway, it's completely acceptable for him to not want to volunteer on 
certain things anymore, but he must not take down our infrastructure just 
because he isn't in the mood for dealing with it.
The website isn't the only important thing on it.

I'm willing to have a look at how to maintain the thing if someone gives me 
access to the shell / web interface of the hoster.
Arne, would you be willing to also participate in maintenance?

> To avoid that, I can provide hosting of a static copy of the wiki with
> links at the top of each article to the new github based wiki. I already
> talked about this with Florent, so I’m now taking this here for wider
> discussion.

While this is a kind offer, it will lead us into a trap which we already fell 
into once:
When we migrated from $old_wiki_software to MediaWiki, we put the old one in 
read-only mode.
As a result, nobody knows what has been migrated and what hasn't because 
people cannot delete things right after they migrated them. Thus as migration 
is very difficult now, the old wiki is STILL is running and has been for 
almost a decade:
https://old-wiki.freenetproject.org

Further, we are also running a second MediaWiki instance as the French wiki
- so we now have 4 wikis!

Thus, I would say the proper way to do migration now is:
- Keep hosting the full software of the old Wikis so they can be writeable.
- Ask people to *delete* things they migrated.
- Consider aborting the migration to GitHub given that it has been running for 
months and it seems like nobody wants to finish it. 3 Wikis were enough 
already, we shouldn't start a new one if we cannot even finish the migration 
of the old new ones.

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