Re: MediaWiki next steps
Hi,
On 7/22/25 1:40 PM, Guillem Jover wrote:
> As I've said on the IRC channel, and to make it explicit here. While I
> think the licensing part is a very important topic, where I echo
> concerns about inbound and outbound considerations (for example I'd
> like to be able in many cases to move content from the wiki into
> packages and match their current version instead of having to have a
> mix of licenses there), and I acknowledge this might seem like a great
> time/opportunity to try to solve it and have a clean state in the new
> wiki, it also seems like a gargantuan amount of work and an artificial
> process trap (which I'm acutely aware as I have a tendency to fall into
> those :), that I fear will very easily end up stalling any progress.
>
> IMO, we have had this problem until now, so I don't see it as a big
> issue to keep having it for now (while we do a platform switch). We can
> try to reach consensus on a global default license, and then document
> that this will apply (unless specified otherwise, but still requiring
> a DFSG license), to any new content from say a specific date onwards.
FWIW, I agree.
>> 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.
>
> While Chris tried to convert the ArchitectureSpecificsMemo page,
> I think there was also missing support for at least footnotes. I think
> this has been communicated, and I'm not sure whether this needs packaging,
> or just enabling the thing in the config, but just adding it here for
> completeness. I assume there will be several other extensions that we
> might find we need as well.
I think Chris requested at least the Cite extension and some support for
interlinks like bts: and mailto:. I waited for these requests to trickle
back to me to actually install something.
I am fine to manually handle the installation right now - it looks to me
like we can have an easy migration path to backports eventually. That's
assuming that we find a good story for versioning of mediawiki itself in
stable/backports - i.e. are the plugins for the stable or the backports
version, etc.
> The other thing that was requested in person in DebConf was whether we
> could avoid the "index.php?title=" for the main page, but not sure
> whether that's tracked anywhere (CCing Philipp).
It looks like this is already fixed? Taavi has access to both the Apache
and the Mediawiki config, i.e. that's all... devolved power. :)
Kind regards
Philipp Kern
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