Moving the Ubuntu Wiki to Mediawiki or something else?

[José Antonio Rey]

Right. We need to start at some point, or we're going to be forever stuck.

My main proposal here would be starting a timeline, that starts with an 
RT filed on the system asap. Then, if we don't agree on which system to 
use, to test both of them for a stated period of time. Finally, vote on 
which system we believe is the most easy to use/practical and start the 
migration to that system.

For now, the open source options are MediaWiki and DokuWiki. As far as I 
know, both of them are charmed in Juju, and their implementation with IS 
would be a matter of confirming they are willing to provide the space, 
and launching the servers.

On 02/16/2016 04:12 PM, Elizabeth K. Joseph wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 12:02 PM, Gunnar Hjalmarsson
> <gunnarhj at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>> On 2016-02-16 19:53, José Antonio Rey wrote:
>>> Currently, the Ubuntu Wiki is based in moinmoin, which is a slow
>>> platform due to several reasons.
>>> ...
>>> There's some people who are evaluating the option to move the wiki
>>> outside moinmoin, and have suggested Mediawiki.
>>
>> As far as I understand there are currently two MoinMoin wikis:
>>
>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/
>> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CommunityHelpWiki
>>
>> Are we talking about both?
>
> The discussion began with wiki.ubuntu.com, but given all of our
> problems with the help wiki (even before the spam bots), both should
> be transitioned to something new.
>
>> As regards the community help wiki, there is a much more urgent issue:
>> Due to a spambot incident, it's actually not a wiki for the time being,
>> since only a small group of editors has access to make changes.
>>
>> There is an open RT ticket:
>> https://rt.ubuntu.com/Ticket/Display.html?id=27950
>>
>> Sure, if the current wiki software isn't sufficient to handle the
>> current sizes of the wikis, I'm all for a change.
>>
>> But...
>>
>> My main concern is about priorities. The emergency wiki issue is
>> described in the RT ticket. Please fix that issue first.
>
> I agree, we should make sure immediate efforts are focused on getting
> edit access back to our help wiki. It's been over a month and a half
> and this has been a really painful time for all contributors.
>
> But maintenance-wise these are related. If we were on a more
> maintainable platform it wouldn't take so long to evaluate problems
> and restore access.
>


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José Antonio Rey