On 4 February 2013 15:40, Dave Fisher <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Jani, > > Thanks for the MWiki work. I think that there are several discussions > needed in order to start the process of converting CWiki to MWiki and > "modernize" MWiki. > > Forgive me if I am ignorant of work that may be done already. > > Discussions could be: > > 1. Agreement on the Taxonomy of Categories. > > 2. Reorganize the main MWiki page. > > 3. Retirement strategy with redirects from important old pages that are > external link targets. > > 4. CWiki may serve a purpose as an idea scratch pad as it is very easy to > use (at least for me). Limit the migration away from it to important > documentation like build instructions. The separation may prove useful. >
Thx. for outlining a set of discussions, I highly agree this agenda. Rgds 4) Personally I have no problem with 2 wikis that have a clear seperation, what I find irritating is that the same type of information is in both wikis. > BTW - Have we solved the registration problem for MWiki? > I am not sure what you mean ? If it is "create account" it should be solved (it took a while before I got aware of the problem). > > Regards, > Dave > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Feb 4, 2013, at 8:51 AM, janI <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi. > > > > We have just completed the last optimization of wiki.o.o, which means > that > > it has entered maintenance mode. > > > > There is one outstanding bugzilla issue, which will be implemented if we > > can find a supported solution. > > > > Now would be a good time to think about the other things we have > discussed > > earlier: > > - Move cwiki to mwiki. > > this has been discussed/decided earlier, but might need a positive > > decision. > > I for one find it very confusing to look in 2 wikis for the same > > information (e.g. build instructions) > > - Mark outdated paged with category outdated, and symbol on page > > A lot of the information in wiki is outdated and superseeded by new > > pages, its hard to find the correct info. > > If outpdated paged had the category "outdated" it would be easy to > change > > search to excluded these > > - Put categories on all pages, and structure the pages > > Due to the very limited maintenance the page structure and catagory > usage > > seems very random. > > > > We can hopefully expect high traffic volume when we release 4.0, which > > gives a natural timelimit when the wiki should be streamlined. Unless of > > course, the community does not find it embarrasing to have text like: > > > > "Teams > > This section is partly outdated. Visit Apache > > OpenOffice<http://incubator.apache.org/openofficeorg/index.html>for > > actual information." > > > > on the front page, highlighting the priority of maintaining the wiki. > > > > Doing the work needed is too much for one person, it requires a small > team. > > And based on my experience touching information can generate a lot of > > feelings, so the team should preferable contain enough "old" volunteers > to > > guarantee that the changes are done historically correct. > > > > I will keep doing the running maintenance of the wiki2 server. > > > > Rgds > > jan I. >
