On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 12:06:48PM +0200, Gabriel Wicke wrote: > On Tue, 2004-09-07 at 21:50 -0700, Matt Kraai wrote: > > Would it be possible for you to work with the administrators of > > wiki.debian.net to transition that site to MediaWiki? > > > > There are some old conversion scripts and a python bot framework for > MediaWiki, so there should be a way to do an automated conversion. > MediaWiki doesn't support CamelCase, from what i've seen that's the > biggest change markup-wise. Page urls would also change, when moving the > page after import a redirect is automatically created to keep the old > url working. > > According to http://wiki.debian.net/index.cgi?action=search there are > 1581 pages in the debian.net wiki, so even a manual import might be a > viable option. When Wikipedia switched from CamelCase to [[Free from > links]] the conversion was mostly done manually, and there were much > more pages. I think it's really up to the wiki.debian.net administrator. It would help if MediaWiki was packaged for Debian, though. > I believe that a more official status of the wiki could help a lot to > make the wiki more popular (more users, more content etc). Offering > database downloads as we do on Wikipedia and a debian.org subdomain > might also help this. This should be discussed on debian-project. -- Matt Kraai kraai@ftbfs.org http://ftbfs.org/
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