[LGM] [CREATE] The CREATE wiki

[stdin | Alexandre Leray]

Hi all,

I'm just wondering if it wouldn't be more interesting to bend a wiki to 
replace the current wordpress install, rather than bending wordpress to 
be a wiki? It seems to me that the possibility to gather knowledge about 
Libre Graphics over years is more important than the few pages that are 
made to announce yearly editions of LGM. Mediawiki sounds like a good 
candidate in terms of flexibility and support.

What do you think?

Alex

On 16/04/2013 19:14, Femke Snelting wrote:
> Hello infrastructure team, good to see your work :-)
>
>> I'm moving this conversation on the libregraphicsmeeting list for the
>> sake of organization ;)
>> So, for the wiki re-birth task, as decided during the LGM-organiser
>> meet, ale and I are working on it, but I've just landed home
>> yesterday, and ale will not be able to work on it before tomorrow ;p
>>
>> To simplify infrastructure and usage, we'd like to have everything on
>> the same system for the LGM website. As the website is currently done
>> with Wordpress, and it look like a viable solution for the future, we
>> propose to gather old wiki pages to Wordpress, creating a
>> "documentation" section, and add simple wiki features to thoses pages
>> with a Wordpress plugin like this one :
>> http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/pencil-wiki/
>>
>> Is this solution look ok for everyone ? Do you prefer a "real" wiki
>> solution, which one (Mediawiki ?), and why ?
>
> Agree on simplifying infrastructure and usage, a few questions:
>
> - Is it OK to rely on a plugin for essential content/functions that need
> to survive long term?
> - Anyone interested should be able to view the "organiser section", also
> without being logged in (to invite newcomers and keep growing LGM)
> - A documentation system should ideally have many authors, while for the
> LGM-public site we need a more restrictive user access policy (forms
> currently used in Wordpress contain sensitive information related to
> reimbursements).
> - Access to the edit history of the pages could be helpful, but I'm a
> wiki-fan so probably not that essential
> - Whatever solution you choose should allow for the accumulation of
> documentation over several years (right now, there is a new wordpress
> install every year, so not sure how that would work)
>
>> In any case, we will need a few days to move things, and the first
>> step is to gain full admin access to the website for us.
>> In the meantime, please use the Wayback machine, as pippin said
>> earlier (thanks again pippin) :
>> http://web.archive.org/web/20110820014642/http://create.freedesktop.org/wiki/Main_Page
>>
>>
>> we keep you updated anyway !
>
> Thanks!
>
> F
>
>> Camille
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 2013/4/15 Louis Desjardins <louis.desjardins at gmail.com
>> <mailto:louis.desjardins at gmail.com>>
>>
>>     Hi,
>>
>>     Thanks, Øyvind, for retrieving this info!
>>
>>     Can someone take the task of putting all these pages on a new wiki
>> (say, LGM wiki)?
>>
>>     There has been *lots* of work to gather the info present on the
>> Create wiki at the time and this was put there after lengthy
>> discussions on IRC and on the Mailing list. The guidelines certainly
>> need to be revisited from time to time but the core info is there and
>> should inspire the decision making process. We need to avoid
>> "spontaneous generation" or loss of memory! :-)
>>
>>     Infos will be updated after we have our own wiki.
>>
>>     Anybody?
>>
>>     Thanks!
>>
>>     Louis
>>
>>
>>     2013/4/13 Øyvind Kolås <pippin at gimp.org <mailto:pippin at gimp.org>>
>>
>>         The easiest way to find the content, which used to be in the
>> create / LGM wiki is to surf via the wayback machine :)
>>
>>
>> http://web.archive.org/web/20110820232948/http://create.freedesktop.org/wiki/Conference_2011
>>
>>
>>         --
>>         «The future is already here. It's just not very evenly
>> distributed»
>>                                                           -- William
>> Gibson
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