Re: [mb-style] MediaWiki (was: Looking for a new [Documentation|Style] leader)

2008-08-07 Thread Aurélien.mino
Chad Wilson a écrit : > > We don't want people's work (given there's so few that do it) to be lost > by making changes to either wiki which may be lost. > Current work on MediaWiki is only for the proof-of-concept. It's assumed that it will be lost with the final migration, excepted for manual

Re: [mb-style] MediaWiki (was: Looking for a new [Documentation|Style] leader)

2008-08-07 Thread Aurélien.mino
Jim DeLaHunt a écrit : > Philip Jägenstedt-3 wrote: > >> Ah, MediaWiki is quite refreshing, I like it >> >> > > Hear, hear! +1! > > I like what I see at the prototype pages. > > We should make a place to list issues with the migration (he said, presuming > that it will in fact go ahead

Re: [mb-style] MediaWiki (was: Looking for a new [Documentation|Style] leader)

2008-08-05 Thread Aurélien.mino
Lukáš Lalinský a écrit : > part of the previous discussion was migrating the wiki to either > MoinMoin 1.6 or MediaWiki. A MediaWiki instance is now set up on > http://mediawiki.musicbrainz.org/ with the latest version of our current > wiki (no history). Can you please play with it, try to use some

Re: [mb-style] Looking for a new [Documentation|Style] leader

2008-07-31 Thread Aurélien.mino
Lukáš Lalinský a écrit : > Dňa Št, 2008-07-31 o 12:20 +0200, "Aurélien.mino" napísal: > >> Chad Wilson a écrit : >> >>> Do we understand why Moin was chosen in the first place above MediaWiki? >>> Do we have an idea of whether it will fix

Re: [mb-style] Looking for a new [Documentation|Style] leader

2008-07-31 Thread Aurélien.mino
Robert Kaye a écrit : > If MediaWiki can be used for transclusion, I'm all for the switch. > > Transclusion can probably be achieved with MediaWiki as well: it supports extensions, and here's one allowing to export a wiki page as PDF: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Pdf_Export, which ma

Re: [mb-style] Looking for a new [Documentation|Style] leader

2008-07-31 Thread Aurélien.mino
Chad Wilson a écrit : > Do we understand why Moin was chosen in the first place above MediaWiki? > Do we have an idea of whether it will fix some of the transclusion > display problems with Moin pages? > > I am concerned that to do a migration while the data is in a bad state > may detract from

Re: [mb-style] Looking for a new [Documentation|Style] leader

2008-07-30 Thread Aurélien.mino
Chad Wilson a écrit : > The issue at the moment is that the problem is too big. I think we need a > streamlined process for a period of time to try and clean out the bulk of the > old/outdated crud so that the time can gradually be spent more on > maintenance/improving/reviewing rather than rest