[geeklog-devel] wiki.geeklog.net mediawiki migration

[Tom]

Thanks Dan. That would be the best option.

-----Original Message-----
From: geeklog-devel [mailto:geeklog-devel-bounces at lists.geeklog.net] On
Behalf Of Dan Stoner
Sent: Saturday, July 30, 2016 9:18 PM
To: Geeklog Development <geeklog-devel at lists.geeklog.net>
Subject: Re: [geeklog-devel] wiki.geeklog.net mediawiki migration

Hey, that's good news.


Would it help to have a database dump or some other "automagic" conversion?

https://www.dokuwiki.org/tips:mediawiki_to_dokuwiki_converter

Let me know how I can help the process.


With the existing wiki I will move it to a new VPS and will probably try to
upgrade the mediawiki version (for security reasons).

- Dan Stoner



On Sat, Jul 30, 2016 at 7:23 AM, Tom <websitemaster at cogeco.net> wrote:
> Hi Dan,
>
> Michael from Spacesquad  started migrating the wiki a few weeks ago. 
> He is updating the format along with the information as he goes. He is 
> using DokuWiki along with a plugin that embeds the wiki into Geeklog.
>
> I have used the github wiki a little bit before and agree with your 
> assessment. If we were not embedding the wiki into Geeklog.net then 
> with DokuWIki the GitHub wiki might be worth looking at if others 
> agree (I assume GitHub plans on updating the thing).
>
> Did you want to update the current wiki to the latest version? I am 
> not sure how much time Michael has to put into the project so am 
> unsure when he will complete it.  I also still need to update the 
> DokuWiki plugin to the latest version which will not happen till  the
beginning of September.
>
> Tom
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: geeklog-devel [mailto:geeklog-devel-bounces at lists.geeklog.net] 
> On Behalf Of Dan Stoner
> Sent: Friday, July 29, 2016 10:38 PM
> To: Geeklog Development <geeklog-devel at lists.geeklog.net>
> Subject: [geeklog-devel] wiki.geeklog.net mediawiki migration
>
> I mentioned this over 1 year ago but ran into "problems" and never 
> succeeded to migrate to a new VPS server. I am going to get back to this
task.
>
>
> At this point, since Geeklog is now on github, it is worth posing the 
> question about whether the wiki content could/should be moved into 
> github wiki.
>
> After using github wiki on some $WORK projects, I have to say that the 
> wiki features are far less powerful than mediawiki, but 
> organizationally it might be the right thing to do.
>
> If that doesn't sound interesting to you folks then I will proceed 
> with migrating wiki.geeklog.net to a new/updated VPS server so I can 
> upgrade to a "current' mediawiki release as planned.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dan Stoner
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