Officially moving to MediaWiki?

Paulo Pinto pjmlp at progtools.org
Sat Dec 8 23:19:55 PST 2012


Am 09.12.2012 07:13, schrieb Maxim Fomin:
> On Saturday, 8 December 2012 at 23:52:48 UTC, David Nadlinger wrote:
>> The topic has been discussed extensively a short while ago, so I'll
>> keep this short:
>>
>> As you will probably remember, Vladimir Panteleev has kindly agreed to
>> set up a MediaWiki instance, meant to replace the current D wiki at
>> prowiki.org. It is reachable at
>> http://dwiki.kimsufi.thecybershadow.net/Main_Page, and several people
>> have actively been adding content to it already (thanks a lot!).
>>
>> In my opinion, it is already much more inviting than the old wiki. The
>> next logical step would be to officially adopt it as the D wiki, i.e.
>> make wiki.dlang.org point to it and change the links on dlang.org
>> accordingly.
>>
>> So, the question is, what is stopping us from doing that right now? Is
>> there anything important missing? [1]
>>
>> At this point, the MediaWiki instance still has slightly less content,
>> but I think this will quickly change once it has received the official
>> blessing. Besides that, it will probably be a good idea to keep around
>> the old one as an archive anyway, at least for a short while.
>>
>> David
>>
>>
>> [1] The DIPs have not been moved yet, but that's in order to avoid
>> confusion regarding the official source.
>
> I agree that moving from prowiki to mediawiki is a good idea, but new
> site is just almost empty
> (http://dwiki.kimsufi.thecybershadow.net/?title=Special:RecentChanges&days=30&from=&limit=500
> see also http://dwiki.kimsufi.thecybershadow.net/Special:AllPages) and
> some portion of it is dedicated to developers (Walter Bright,
> Alexandrescu and others) which is not very interesting for those who are
> seeking language technical details.


Well, most of the content on the current Wiki is dead from what I can 
understand in our forum discussions.

So the question is how much of the *real* content is still missing?

--
Paulo


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