Re: Announcing the slow burial of the Hurd Wiki

[Joachim Nilsson]

On 4/11/07, Thomas Schwinge <tschwinge@gnu.org> wrote:
> Hello!

Hi there! :-)

> On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 08:19:59AM +0200, Joachim Nilsson wrote:
> > On 8/11/06, Michael Banck <mbanck@debian.org> wrote:
> > >Thomas Schwinge has been working on finding a replacement for the wiki,
> > >but he is on vacation currently and will be back in September.
> > OK, sounds good.
> Sorry for the delay, but I'm _now_ working on completing this wiki
> migration effort!  :-)

Great!

> > >What might help is getting a dump/backup of the current gnufans wiki so
> > >we can restore/integrate it with whatever wiki we are going to use.
> > As I've said in a previous post I'm willing to take the time out to
> > make that dump whenever there's a commitment from the community of
> > people using it
> ..., so I could _now_ make great use of such a dump.  I think I have a
> converter from twiki rcs format to the new wiki's format.

OK, reply to me privately and we can make up the arrangements for
transferring the dump.  There are some potentially sensitive
passwords/private data that could otherwise leak...

I can setup a temporary FTP download or, if you prefer, upload it to a
server of your choosing.

> > a solid host that can handle the job.
> We'll see how that'll work out.  A GNU/Hurd machine shall be it.  :-)

Cool!  About time we setup a work horse server based on Gnu/Hurd that
gets some heavier usage.  Will you administer it yourself or is there
a team of admins to manage it?

> > >Plus, does anybody know of plans for Savannah to supply wikis to its
> > >projects?
> > That would be the best thing IMHO, but wiki documentation has
> > traditionally not been seen as a, how should I put it, "kosher/halal"
> > form of documentation. But that is just my personal impression.
> Working on that will be another step as soon as the new Hurd wiki proves
> to work out well.

The most difficult issue, when I discussed it a couple of years ago
with Richard, was that of copyright assignment for Wiki content.
Basically, Richard was OK with using wikis as long as its content was
never used in official documents (info/man/etc), since its origin
could not be safely established (anonymous edits and signup).

To the rest of the community, good luck with the Hurd and the future Wiki!

Regards
/Jocke