Re: [-comm-devel] Wiki

[Greg M. <drk...@co...>]

Greg Morgan tried to write:
> Mike Noyes wrote:
> 
>> Everyone,
>> Greg Meiste kindly created a wiki module, so I think we should consider
>> using our own dog food.
> 
> 
> <snip>
> 
>> Migration of MediaWiki content to phpWS wiki would occur in a fashion
>> similar to the process used in Moin -> MediaWiki.
>>
>> As always comments and suggestions are welcome.
>>
> 
> I am sure this would be a good time for several reasons.

LOL well I meant Not as in

I am sure this would not be a good time for several reasons.

> 
> 1.) There are still parts of the Moin -> MediaWiki conversion that have 
> not been completed.  This lies more in reformatting the text that was 
> dumped over to Media.
> 
> 2.) The Moin -> MediaWiki conversion was allot of work.  One of the 
> three people involved in that conversion is no longer contributing to 
> the wiki.  That person may have felt he did his part and is done. That's 
> ok.  That's how Open Source works.  I anticipate the same amount of work 
> for MediaWiki -> phpWebsite Wiki.  The nice thing with the last 
> conversion is that there were sample sites around that could be viewed. 
>  Perhaps the documentation should be completed before we attempt the 
> conversion. Please see 
> http://phpwebsite-comm.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php?title=Wiki.
> 
> 3.) I am not sure how to get other people to contribute.  How do we 
> build the wiki community?  There are almost 60 users now. However, 
> looking at 
> http://phpwebsite-comm.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php?title=Special:Recentchanges 
> shows that very few are contributing.  I am afraid that changing the 
> horse again won't help build the community.  Everyone would have to sign 
> up all over again.  I am thinking that might be a barrier to retraining 
> the community that exists now.
> 
> 4.) A wiki is a wiki is a wiki.  However, I like the dog food I am 
> eating right now.  I've had to slow down on my contributions to the 
> current wiki.  I am afraid that changing brands will slow down what I 
> can contribute.  I agree that eating our very own brand of dog food is 
> important but I know I won't have time to help make the switch.  So that 
> would leave Mike as the only person making the wiki switch and eating 
> our brand of dog food.  Again the question comes to my mind, "How do we 
> build the community?  How do we encourage people to contribute a small 
> change here or there each day?  It appears to me that an established 
> wiki lends to small contributes by many people.
> 
> 5.) I think it would be more helpful for the community to work on 
> creating a way of formatting both the third party modules 
> http://phpwebsite-comm.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php?title=Third_Party_Modules, 
> and third party themes 
> http://phpwebsite-comm.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php?title=Third_Party_Themes 
> than making the switch to another wiki.  There are some other areas of 
> the current wiki that need attention by more seasoned admins.
> 
> Greg