Re: MediaWiki next steps
Here are a few unsorted ideas about the new wiki...
Wikipedia has a huge collection of templates and seem to encourage other wikis
to import them. I maintain a personal wiki, and if memory serves, I had to
give up on the attempt because I made some simple mistake and would have needed
to reset the database to fix it. Consider importing MW templates now while
resetting the whole database (or just rolling it back to a known-good instance)
is an option. A quick look suggests [0] is a good place to start.
The Cargo extension[1] lets you create content on one page that gets added
to a database, then queried on other pages. For example, consider a page like:
/tmp became a tmps in trixie. {{{ChangeAtEOL|bookworm|delete this line}}}
Cargo lets the template add itself to a database table, and lets you make a
separate page that queries the database for ChangeAtEOL items with an
appropriate release. I suspect this will be most useful for the sorts of
problems that ossify relatively early in the project, so it's worth thinking
about now.
Finally, there was some talk about migration. How about moving the two wikis
to `moin.wiki.d.o` and `mw.wiki.d.o`, and making `wiki.d.o` act like a mirror of
MoinMoin by default, or MediaWiki for pages where MoinMoin 404's? That would
make it easy to do a gradual transition - pages that exist in the old wiki are
displayed as normal, then individual editors can spend some time migrating the
page, and delete the MoinMoin version when they're happy for people to default
to the new version.
[0] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Using_content_from_Wikipedia
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Cargo
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