[Discuss-gnuradio] Coming very soon: Wiki transition

[Martin Braun]

A while back, we mentioned that we'd be moving the wiki to a new
MediaWiki installation, and we're now aiming to finalize by the end of
this Sunday. There's still a couple of tasks open, but the new wiki is
already accessible at: http://wiki.gnuradio.org

The content of the wiki was semi-automatically generated by the
following process:
- We exported all the textile code from the Redmine MySQL database
- We used pandoc to convert to MediaWiki
- And then we used a MediaWiki maintenance script to import those files
- All deprecated or obsolete pages from the old wiki (most were tagged
as such) were *not* imported.

Then, with the help of some community members, we started hand-editing
some of the more important pages, and making sure pictures etc. were
properly displayed.

The import was not perfect. In some cases, pandoc screwed up, and
elsewhere, links didn't make sense after the import. So some of the new
pages look a bit funny. But still, we'll be switching over to the new
wiki fairly soon.

I've posted an issue for wiki features, which I'll be using for tracking
progress: https://github.com/gnuradio/gnuradio/issues/1242

As you can see, there's an item to allow people use their github
credentials to log in, that's not yet available. For now, anyone who
wants to edit on the new wiki will need to create a new account there.
Redmine accounts did not, unfortunately, transfer over.

We'll need a lot of help cleaning up the new wiki, and I'm also eager to
hear suggestions for improvements. The more specific, the better. It's
fairly easy for me to enable a specific plugin, but a request to
"somehow enable rainbows and unicorns" might get deferred.
It would help a lot to approach the new wiki with a "return things in a
cleaner state" mentality; any time you read a page and see funny
formatting (or other issues), just spend 10 seconds to fix it.

Cheers, all,

Martin