Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] A wasteland of a wiki

[Bob Proulx]

Karl Berry wrote:
> We can't copy from the old wiki.  That's the whole problem (well, the
> biggest part of it, anyway).  At least I don't know how.

As I read that suggestion I think perhaps the suggestion was to bring
up the current web page and then cut-n-paste from it into a new
location.  All history would be lost but we would then have the
current snapshot to import.  It would be very labor intensive.  It
would require reformatting.  Simple, brute force, but not without
problems.

> To me, neither losing everything that has been written nor updating
> starting from the garbage that is in the wiki now is a viable way to
> proceed.  OTOH, I am not the boss.  Whatever the consensus is.

And I think that is a valid point.  It would be shame to lose
everything.

> Everyone completely agrees and has ever since the wiki was cracked, but
> no one has made progress on actually recovering it.
> 
> If someone (you? Ryan? anyone?) wants to set up ikiwiki (or some other
> software -- we could discuss) on savannah, that would IMHO be another
> useful thing to do, independent of (and prerequisite to) actually adding
> content.  As long as we have been dead in the water for X months, I
> suggest it would be a good time to take this opportunity to move to a
> different wiki software.

After I finish the current round of VM upgrades I would be willing to
look at the wiki problem.  But I want to finish the one task before
starting another.

I am completely unfamiliar with administrating the current Zwiki or
with the proposed Ikiwiki.  I used to maintain a MoinMoin wiki.  But I
found that quite unpleasant to work through all of the upgrades for
MoinMoin.  The Ikiwiki suggestion seems most attractive to me.

Bob