Moving the Ubuntu Wiki to Mediawiki or something else?

Wed Feb 17 04:07:37 UTC 2016

On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 1:16 PM, Elizabeth K. Joseph <lyz at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 12:28 PM, Winael <vinzjobard at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > Well sorry Jono, but I don't think so to use a non opensource software
> is a
> > good idea, even if the user experience is better.
>
> I agree, I think we learned a very hard lesson with vBulletin on
> ubuntuforums.org, which is still somehow limping along. Let's not make
> this mistake again :)
>
> We want to make sure we stick with an open source platform that we can
> export from if the company goes away, support is dropped, etc.
> Preferably a popular one, which is why I lean toward MediaWiki.
>
> It's also important to remember before we get into too many
> alternative things threads, the wiki format has historically worked
> for us. People use it. People want to use it more. People can't use it
> because it's slow, times out all the time and is hard to log into.
> Right now we're in a state were teams are setting up alternate wikis
> (like Xubuntu using Doku) just to escape the pain that is our current
> wiki.ubuntu.com MoinMoin install.
>

And precisely why Kubuntu moved to the KDE wiki. More than happy to move
back if we get a working platform.
Cheers,
Scarlett

>
> --
> Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph || Lyz || pleia2
>
> --
> Ubuntu-community-team mailing list
> Ubuntu-community-team at lists.ubuntu.com
> Modify settings or unsubscribe at:
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-community-team
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-community-team/attachments/20160216/63ae088d/attachment.html>