Wiki - Migration Roadmap
#1
Wiki - Migration Roadmap
We are migrating the wiki to a new platform. I've not been satisfied with its performance or management using Mediawiki, and unfortunately that engineered us into a corner. So allow me to advise on our path ahead:

The wiki is pretty broken at the moment because Mediawiki won't support MariaDB 10.3 properly. Registrations aren't working and more.

We're moving the infrastructure to Dokuwiki. This is unlike MyBB iin that it's not a fluid migration. It's more of a manual haul. I am going to manually migrate all wiki pages, images and such into the Dokuwiki infrastructure, bugtest it, then I'll bring it up publicly and let people give feedback and usability comments. To ensure that mastering is kept the same, around this time Mediawiki will be put into a read-only maintenance state.

For those who prefer MediaWiki, I'm sorry, but yeah, stuff ain't working out for us. I'll probably release a copy of the database from Mediawiki with the user table dropped (to keep password hashes from being leaked)

The important things to note from end users are:
  • We are not migrating commit history, previous page versions, etc.
  • We are not migrating the user table. You will need to re-register.
  • Theming will likely not reflect the current Mediawiki install.
Any questions or comments on the process, let us know below.

I'm the system admin of this site. Private security technician, licensed locksmith, hack of a c developer and vintage computer enthusiast. 

https://contrib.irixnet.org/raion/ -- contributions and pieces that I'm working on currently. 

https://codeberg.org/SolusRaion -- Code repos I control

Technical problems should be sent my way.
Raion
Chief IRIX Officer

Trade Count: (9)
Posts: 4,239
Threads: 533
Joined: Nov 2017
Location: Eastern Virginia
Website Find Reply
01-16-2019, 12:50 AM


Forum Jump:


Users browsing this thread: 1 Guest(s)