[Qgis-community-team] Wiki migration

[Otto Dassau]

Am Mon, 21 Nov 2011 14:17:40 +0100
schrieb Pirmin Kalberer <pi_ml at sourcepole.com>:

> Am Montag, 21. November 2011, um 09.54:26 schrieb Otto Dassau:
> > Am Mon, 21 Nov 2011 07:54:21 +0200
> > 
> > schrieb Tim Sutton <tim at linfiniti.com>:
> > > Hi
> > > 
> > > On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 11:19 PM, Pirmin Kalberer
> > > <pi_ml at sourcepole.com>
> > > 
> > > wrote:
> > > > Hi Tim,
> > > > 
> > > > Am Samstag, 19. November 2011, 22.33:12 schrieb Tim Sutton:
> > > >> On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 12:15 AM, Pirmin Kalberer
> > > >> <pi_ml at sourcepole.com>
> > > > 
> > > > wrote:
> > > >> > Hi all,
> > > >> > 
> > > >> > I've done a test run of the migration from MediaWiki to Redmine:
> > > >> > http://hub.qgis.org/projects/wikitest/wiki
> > > >> > http://hub.qgis.org/projects/wikitest/wiki/Page_index
> > > >> > Table markup has to be fixed manually and HTML is not allowed in
> > > >> > Redmine. Could you please check for other migration problems,
> > > >> > which could be fixed in the migration script? Please add them to
> > > >> > the ticket http://hub.qgis.org/issues/4554
> > > >> 
> > > >> Looks pretty good - I think we need to do a review of every page in
> > > >> the wiki and consolidate where multiple pages cover the same topic,
> > > >> remove out of date stuff and so on so what issues remain could
> > > >> probably be sorted out manually. Do you have some idea of how many
> > > >> wiki pages there are, in other words how big a job it will be to
> > > >> sort out the above?
> > > > 
> > > > We're talking about 320 pages. Maybe some queries (age, size) on the
> > > > MediaWiki DB would help to find the more important ones.
> > > 
> > > Ok so it will be a bit of a job but not impossible I guess.
> > > 
> > > Regards
> > > 
> > > Tim
> > 
> > I would help to update the pages in the new wiki.
> 
> If you are fine with the current migration script, I will rerun it on the
> QGIS project itself. Before updating pages in the new wiki, we should set
> a write lock on the MediaWiki.

I am fine with it. Just tell me when you want to start the migration. I will
then set the mediawiki to read-only and write an announcement to the list.

Am I right, that all the wiki accounts are lost then and people will need
a valid osgeo ID? Is there something else I have to mention?

Regards
Otto