As some of you may know by now (or may not), a new wiki is coming to the Fedora project! Our previous wiki, MoinMoin, has been pretty unreliable due to scalability issues. We were the largest deployment of Moin, and it just didn't scale. You may have noticed this in the form of slow response, frequent timeouts, internal server errors, and other assorted bad things.
Good news being, we‘ve got a replacement now - we're going to the tried and true, battle tested MediaWiki. There is a conversion script for Moin that was available, and was modified by Mike McGrath to fit our needs. Máirín Duffy anad Ian Weller did all the template work, and I just sat back and made sure everything I was interested in rendered correctly :).
Now the time has come for everyone else to see that things have rendered OK. There are a few known issues with this incarnation:
1) The license tag at the bottom says CC-BY-SA, this is not correct, we are not relicensing the content. This will be correct soonish.
2) Where the Art team did banners for various projects, those are replaced by HTML at this point. Those will have to be manual conversions to MediaWiki templates. We can no longer allow embedded HTML in the wiki (it had been on the table for some time to remove the capability, there are inherent security issues in it).
Without further ado, you can testdrive the new wiki here. This is going live soon, like 2-3 weeks soon, so get your feedback in!
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
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3 comments:
this is awesome news!
cant wait until the new mediawiki wiki is operational!
great work! :)
Looks great.
A small tip: it's in fact possible to edit the sidebar.
Use the following page:
https://publictest1.fedoraproject.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Sidebar
Bummer you didn't consider trying ikiwiki.
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