Re: What's next for the Debian Wiki? (was Re: wiki.d.o on a git-backed engine)

[Otto Kekäläinen <otto@debian.org>]

Hi all!

I just wanted to advertise once more in case somebody missed it: There
is now a https://wiki2025.debian.org/ and work to migrate to a new
Mediawiki based Debian wiki is in the progress. If you want to
contribute, please see the discussions on
https://lists.debian.org/debian-wiki/2025/07/threads.html


On Sun, 19 Jan 2025 at 02:55, Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> wrote:
>
> Folks,
>
> Recently a discussion on -devel branched into the topic of the Debian
> Wiki (the particular sub-topic was the wish from some to have a
> git-backed wiki). Some felt that this discussion should be moved off
> -devel, and others pointed out that the Wiki maintainers themselves
> should be made aware, and that debian-www@ was the correct place for
> that.
>
> Discussions/desires to enhance or evolve the Wiki are nothing new, and
> previous discussions exist in many other places¹. Debian being Debian,
> that will always be the case. And rather than try to stamp out
> discussion in the "wrong" place, it seems to me a better approach might
> be to try and summarize the varied discussions, desires, requirements
> and proposals: and the Wiki itself is a good place for that, IMHO.
>
> To that end, I've created DebianWiki/NextGen, and made an initial
> attempt to summarize the current live threads I'm aware of:
> <https://wiki.debian.org/DebianWiki/NextGen>. I'll try to update it, and
> contributions are welcome.
>
> I'm sending this (primarily) to debian-www@ as that's the right place
> for Wiki discussions, by convention, and to be sure the Wiki maintainers
> see it.
>
> And so on to my 2p's worth: A lot of the discussion I've seen focussed
> on (a) narrow list of problems (moin 1.9.x, Python 2), (b) advocates
> solutions (e.g. mediawiki) and (c) makes assumptions (we must migrate
> all the content in perfect fidelity if we move wiki engine) which might
> not hold. I feel we should spend some time thinking hard about what we
> want from the Debian Wiki, i.e., a good old-fashioned requirements
> analysis, before we look at (b) or (c).
>
> I'm particularly keen that the Wiki maintainers are in the loop (hence
> this mail), but also the current set of active wiki contributors.
>
>
> [1] <https://salsa.debian.org/debian/grow-your-ideas/-/issues/2>