On 6 December 2015 at 13:47, Bastien Nocera <had...@hadess.net> wrote: > On Fri, 2015-12-04 at 11:17 -0800, Christian Hergert wrote: >> On 12/04/2015 04:57 AM, Sébastien Wilmet wrote: >> > * Last, but not least, some projects don't follow the template. >> > Closing >> > projects.gnome.org and moving the different web sites to the wiki >> > was >> > meant to have more consistency and be able to edit the content more >> > easily and by more people. Christian didn't follow the template for >> > gnome-builder, to have something more appealing for the fundraiser. >> > Then >> > other people have copied that. But the content is harder to edit, >> > it >> > uses some advanced features of MoinMoin. And it is not consistent >> > with >> > other projects pages. >> > Is it because the templates suck? >> >> It's true that the templates were not up to the quality I wanted for >> my >> fundraiser. >> >> I also find MoinMoin itself to be incredibly lacking. My personal >> preference would be for us to migrate our wiki to something that will >> be >> well supported for the next 10-15 years. Which likely means wiki >> software written/maintained by wikimedia... But this is a substantial >> amount of work. > > One of the reasons why we didn't migrate in the past is that we were > unable to find a Wiki which supported some features used by the Board > (only by the Board) such as private hierarchies/pages. > > It would probably be fine to move to another engine as long as it > either had the necessary features, or we kept MoinMoin for the Board. > But maintaining 2 different wikis engines...
The board still actively uses the wiki for storing information… I think MediaWiki has a plugin which allows something similar to MoinMoin permissions, but I expect it would require some fiddling/fixing before it would work the same way. Suggestions for alternatives are welcome. >> FWIW Builder is going to move it's primary landing page off of >> wiki.gnome.org so we can do something more immersive. > > It really depends who you're building your "web page" for. For people > contributing to Builder, I would expect a Wiki to be fine. If it's > about advertising the application, then it's certainly a good idea to > move to something less restrictive. > > Cheers > > _______________________________________________ > engagement-list mailing list > engagement-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/engagement-list _______________________________________________ engagement-list mailing list engagement-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/engagement-list
