On 01/14/2010 02:43 AM, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, 14 Jan 2010, J.H. wrote: > >> On 01/13/2010 05:24 PM, Petr Baudis wrote: >> >>> On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 12:29:08AM +0100, Petr Baudis wrote: >>>> I would like to notify you that unfortunately, Czech UPC terminated >>>> the sponsorship of the hardware and connectivity hosting the Git Wiki >>>> and repo.or.cz (after generously donating it for several years). >>> >>> ...please scratch the Git Wiki part, you would be supporting just >>> repo.or.cz - we are considering to move the Git wiki to >>> wiki.kernel.org MediaWiki installation and I would like to ask if >>> anyone disagrees with this. The motivation is that: >>> >>> (i) wiki.kernel.org is actually maintained! Thus, there should be >>> less spam or upgrade issues and better support in case of problems. >>> >>> (ii) Also, I personally think MediaWiki is so much nicer than >>> ikiwiki... > > ... not to mention than MoinMoin... > >>> (iii) ...and OBTW, no CamelCase! >>> >>> Of course, there will be compatibility redirects. >> >> Just a heads up I've got an initial import of the current wiki up at >> http://git.wiki.kernel.org - some of it was quite a clean conversion, >> some of it not so much. > > Did you use a script? And did you leech the sources, or did you get a > dump? Used a conversion script form a dump from Petr, needless to say it wa sthe one generally recommended by mediawiki and even their commentary on it was "It's the least bad" basically > I note that "<<<!-- ! TOC here -->(2)>>" could be converted to "__TOC__", > I believe. I'll have to go in behind and track those down, should be easy enough to find / fix. >> Please note that user accounts were not carried over but edit histories >> were. > > IIUC there are no email addresses stored in the Git Wiki, so I think that > we'll have to live with that. You might get the occasional complaint of a > stolen account. I'm fine with dealing with those on an individual basis, and it would be good for people to re-create their accounts as soon as possible. >> I'll work on cleaning up the rest of if tomorrow, assuming that there >> isn't any objections to Petr's e-mail above. > > I like it. Especially since there is a fun project waiting for me to > get some time to do it, to convert the full history of a MediaWiki > instance into a Git repository. Maybe via the git-remote* mechanism, once > Sverre and Ilari manage to flush out the last remnants of clumsy design. Now you've got a solid wiki to work with that's pertinent ;-) - John 'Warthog9' Hawley -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html