Sat, 25 Aug 2012 14:44, Oleg Yarigin wrote: > When I edited pages in the WineHQ Wiki, I notised, its markup lankuage > isn`t so good as MediaWiki`s one. How do you think about moving the Wiki > into MediaWiki engine? Besides, moving each language section of the Wiki > into separated subdomain (like in Wikipedia) would be a good idea too.
I've been working a lot on the wiki recently, and I actually brought up something similar in this thread: http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2012-July/096198.html While I'm busy with other things right now, I wanted to discuss this in more detail in the near future, particularly how it ties into possibly migrating the entire site over to a CMS. The Moinmoin syntax was new to me too, but after using it a little, I don't mind it too much. There are definitely a few missing features and rough edges compared to MediaWiki. However, and this is just my impression, I think MediaWiki has really evolved to fit Wikipedia's needs. I'm not sure how well it integrates (style-wise at least) if you don't run your entire site off of it, and while I haven't actually looked at MediaWiki's code, I've heard that it can be really tricky to setup, maintain, and reprogram. There are some pluggable parsers for Moinmoin, and there may be one that allows MediaWiki syntax. After going through and checking, categorizing, and editing so many pages, I definitely agree with your suggestion that each language be given a domain, instead of one flat namespace. Then maybe just add a single common "translation" menu to the side toolbar? I've come to the opinion that we should probably stick with Moinmoin, and migrate to a new engine other than MediaWiki only if there are strong reasons. What might be best is if we actually got in touch with some of the Moinmoin developers and put in some feature requests. Helping with the wiki's engine is on my list so I'd like to hear some more opinions. -Kyle