The D wiki engine must be replaced

[Tobias Pankrath]

On Wednesday, 31 October 2012 at 13:09:10 UTC, David Nadlinger 
wrote:
> On Sunday, 28 October 2012 at 13:06:09 UTC, Thomas Koch wrote:
>> I consider it extremely important for the success of D to have 
>> a usable
>> wiki. I don't consider the current wiki usable. I don't have a 
>> strong
>> opinion about other wiki engines so I won't give a 
>> recommendation here.
>>
>> I personally would prefer a wiki system based on Git to allow 
>> offline
>> editing, like Ikiwiki.
>
> Yes, I agree that the current wiki setup is very awkward and 
> clumsy to use.
>
> However, my preferred solution would just be a MediaWiki 
> instance (with a slightly customized theme, of course), because 
> this is what everybody is already familiar with from Wikipedia 
> and other wiki sites.
>
> David

If it's just the syntax: gollum understands mediawiki. The 
advantages I see are no need to setup and administrate a custom 
solution and the core people of the D community are already using 
git.

That I don't need to use a crappy web interface if I don't want 
to is a big plus, too.