Wiki ideas

[Mark Shuttleworth]

Hi folks

The wiki is growing far faster than I ever dreamed possible, and that's 
largely thanks to the doc teams efforts both at creating wiki pages and 
at organising them.

Currently, our wiki is part of Plone, and we're experiencing some 
scalability issues associated with that that have prompted us to 
consider other options.

We've funded the packaginf of Moin 1.3 by Jonas Smedegaard, the Debian 
maintainer of the Moin1.2 packages. These 1.3 packages will likely make 
it into Hoary, though there is not automated upgrade process for moving 
from 1.2 to 1.3 there is a manual process that is documented.

As an experiment, we are creating a new Moin 1.3 wiki for all of the 
content related to Ubuntu Down Under (our Sydney conference, in late 
April). If that goes very well, we can consider migrating all content 
into Moin 1.3, based on your own suggestions and feedback.

I know that moving wiki formats is traumatic so we are conducting this 
experiment with all-new content to try to minimise the impact of the 
testing. I'd love to see discussion of the results of the test on this 
list and include that in the final decision.

It was my call to move to the Plone-based wiki, to try to get an 
integrated search. We'll now have to look into other search options to 
include the UDU wiki, any suggestions are welcome. If someone knows how 
to drive Google to include the wiki and mailing lists in a 
www.ubuntu.com search, that would be a great idea to pursue, and perhaps 
we could make that the official search plan.

Cheers,
Mark