Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Coming very soon: Wiki transition

[Martin Braun]

...hit send too soon: Also, the new wiki now has a license for content.
Everything that gets added from now on will be CC-BY-SA licensed.

Cheers,
Martin

On 03/16/2017 04:37 PM, Martin Braun wrote:
> A while back, we mentioned that we'd be moving the wiki to a new
> MediaWiki installation, and we're now aiming to finalize by the end of
> this Sunday. There's still a couple of tasks open, but the new wiki is
> already accessible at: http://wiki.gnuradio.org
> 
> The content of the wiki was semi-automatically generated by the
> following process:
> - We exported all the textile code from the Redmine MySQL database
> - We used pandoc to convert to MediaWiki
> - And then we used a MediaWiki maintenance script to import those files
> - All deprecated or obsolete pages from the old wiki (most were tagged
> as such) were *not* imported.
> 
> Then, with the help of some community members, we started hand-editing
> some of the more important pages, and making sure pictures etc. were
> properly displayed.
> 
> The import was not perfect. In some cases, pandoc screwed up, and
> elsewhere, links didn't make sense after the import. So some of the new
> pages look a bit funny. But still, we'll be switching over to the new
> wiki fairly soon.
> 
> I've posted an issue for wiki features, which I'll be using for tracking
> progress: https://github.com/gnuradio/gnuradio/issues/1242
> 
> As you can see, there's an item to allow people use their github
> credentials to log in, that's not yet available. For now, anyone who
> wants to edit on the new wiki will need to create a new account there.
> Redmine accounts did not, unfortunately, transfer over.
> 
> We'll need a lot of help cleaning up the new wiki, and I'm also eager to
> hear suggestions for improvements. The more specific, the better. It's
> fairly easy for me to enable a specific plugin, but a request to
> "somehow enable rainbows and unicorns" might get deferred.
> It would help a lot to approach the new wiki with a "return things in a
> cleaner state" mentality; any time you read a page and see funny
> formatting (or other issues), just spend 10 seconds to fix it.
> 
> Cheers, all,
> 
> Martin
>