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MediaWiki next steps



Following the Debian Wiki BOF at DebConf[0], DSA has set up a machine
(mozart.d.o) for a MediaWiki installation to eventually replace the
current Moin-based wiki. That install is now up at
<https://wiki2025.debian.org/>. I've published the MediaWiki config and
the other bits under our control (so basically the Apache config) to a
Git repo hosted on Salsa[1].

[0]: https://pad.dc25.debconf.org/p/146-debian-wiki-bof
[1]: https://salsa.debian.org/wiki-team/mw-config

I think the next steps are, roughly:
* Get more people than just me to have access to the host. If you'd like
  access (and are a DD), please let me know and I'll submit a request to
  DSA to have you added to the group.
* Figure out licensing (see the other thread on this list) before
  we start adding content to the wiki. Also add required things like a
  privacy policy and a trademark notice to the footer.
* Make the site look like a Debian site. The bare minimum is to make the
  logo in the navbar to be the Debian logo, but I believe Maytham had
  some plan to apply a similar navbar style like many other debian.org
  sites are using. Also we need to come up with a main page design.
* Hand out on-wiki permissions once those become necessary. The site is
  using Salsa for logins (and new Salsa accounts require approval),
  which I hope gets rid of a bunch of the spambots and boring vandals.
  So the day-to-day stuff for elevated on-wiki access is hopefully just
  (un)deleting pages and maybe editing some pages that get protected if
  that happens.
* Figure out a transition plan for the old wiki.

In addition, with my MediaWiki packaging team hat, I've filed ITPs
(#1109528 and #1109578) for the MW extensions that the Salsa login uses.
Right now those are manually installed but DSA would prefer them to
eventually be packaged.

Taavi

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