Taking the wraps off the new wiki.maemo.org
June 12, 2008 7:37 pm maemo, workA few weeks ago, a new MediaWiki instance was installed by Ferenc Szekely of the maemo team, in response to numerous requests. Many people were not fans of Midgard’s user interface for the wiki, and missed a number of features available in other wiki software. And so we have been undertaking the second major migration for the maemo wiki (we previously moved from MoinMoin).
Over the past couple of weeks or so, I’ve been organising a small team which has moved over content from the old wiki, has worked on stylesheets, templates and categories which make sense, and we’re now ready to take the wraps off! Head on over to http://wiki.maemo.org and have a look.
This is not a finished work, like most wikis. Content in the “Midgard wiki” category needs review and editing, and a lot of theofficial documentation of maemo will be wikiised over the coming weeks and months. Some content still needs migrating and categorisation. But we have a decent start, an editing team, and the new wiki has already been baptised with its first couple of pages with over 100 edits: 100Days and 2010 Agenda.
Credit where credit’s due! The following people have been outstanding throughout the migration: GeneralAntilles, jaffa, Niels Breet, ludovicus, trickie and Navi. I’m probably leaving lots of people out but these guys have made their mark with me over the past couple of weeks.
June 12th, 2008 at 8:03 pm
I hate the midgard wiki and how it gets in my way, and I generally like mediawiki’s ease of use. But people would probably like to know your reasoning.
June 13th, 2008 at 7:31 am
Can we hope that it is the last wiki migration?
June 13th, 2008 at 8:25 am
Murray: Justification added. This is a much requested change.
Serge: You can certainly hope that 🙂
June 13th, 2008 at 6:25 pm
Have you guys ever looked at Deki Wiki? Excellent wiki software…easy to manage, easy for users to add content (wysiwyg editor), enterprise level search (Lucene). My company was was going to use Tiki Wiki (yuck) before we discovered Deki Wiki.
June 13th, 2008 at 7:20 pm
Hey – ping me over on my Gmail account. I want to move over content from http://thoughtfix.com/wiki/ and close that down but I’d like you to choose which content is consistent with your wiki project. Basically – Pick what you want from that wiki and I’ll do the copying.
June 14th, 2008 at 11:25 am
@Chris: Deki wiki uses Flash very heavily and that’s not appropriate for tablet usage. Another thing is that it has Mono underneath – not very fast, resource hog and as i learned – really easy to screw your installation good 🙂
June 28th, 2008 at 10:09 pm
why did you move away from moin? I dont see any other wiki having its features like being able to form workgroups, more than one language,modularity, possibility to make a wiki farm, jabber notifications for changes, pdf export, creole wiki language, etc etc. I often see mediawikis that are installed but nostly not because of their features. And upgrading is a mess because everything is in the PHP files, so if you start hacking on it you need to maintain a patch set an hope to be able to get that in for every new release. — Thilo