https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60220
--- Comment #4 from Tim Landscheidt <t...@tim-landscheidt.de> --- (In reply to comment #2) > (In reply to comment #0) > > wiki.toolserver.org should be preserved as a live, editable, no-new-users > > wiki at the WMF cluster. > > Why not move the content to the wiki at wikitech.wikimedia.org? (In reply to comment #3) > I'm not sure we want to move this wiki, per se. Looking at > <https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Special:Statistics>, there are currently > about 320 content pages and a little over 1500 pages total on the wiki. We > could just merge this content into Wikitech (or mediawiki.org or Meta-Wiki or > ...) and take a full snapshot of wiki.toolserver.org for posterity. This > would > be a lot less work, I think. I see three problems with that: 1. Moving a whole wiki is a more or less standardized process. If we only move parts, we probably need to develop some scripts for that. If the migration fails at some point, when moving a whole wiki you can just delete it and start anew, when moving to a live, already existing wiki rolling back is a *big* pain in the ass. 2. After a partial merge from one wiki to a namespace or something similar *no* user attribution will be correct, *no* link will be correct, links outside of the parts merged won't work at all or point to different content, the skin will be totally different. Moving a whole wiki doesn't pose these challenges nor corrupt information. 3. The Toolserver wiki will have no useful (apart from a historic view) information that would enrich wikitech because it relates to a totally different system. On the other hand, users would refer to this obsolete information so that the support channels would get pestered not only with the typical "I read that this should work somewhere on the InterNet!", but also "I read it on wikitech!" So I would like to avoid any possible confusion between current, up-to-date documentation and information kept for historic value as far as possible. > [...] > Who owns the toolserver.org domain? Will the toolserver.org domain ultimately > belong to the Wikimedia Foundation? toolserver.org is currently registered by WMDE; I have no opinion if it should be registered to WMF at some point because the differences will be negligible. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list Wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
