Re: [E-devel] Phab Wiki problem

[Bertrand J. <ber...@ja...>]

On 23/07/2016 07:54, Carsten Haitzler wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Jul 2016 08:29:54 +0200 Davide Andreoli 
> <da...@gu...>
> said:
> 
>> 2016-07-08 4:40 GMT+02:00 Carsten Haitzler <ra...@ra...>:
>> 
>> > On Mon, 27 Jun 2016 11:12:43 +0200 Davide Andreoli <da...@gu...
>> > >
>> > said:
>> >
>> > > Hi,
>> > >
>> > > seems we lost the wiki intro page
>> > >
>> > > https://phab.enlightenment.org/w/
>> > >
>> > > There was an handwritten index page there, now the wiki is totally
>> > > unusable/unbrowsable
>> > >
>> > > some idea?
>> >
>> > yeah. i saw, and could find no info as to what happened to it. like
>> > history or
>> > anything.
>> >
>> 
>> 
>> news about this?
>> the wiki is still unusable, lots of contents are 
>> unreachable/unfindable.
>> Also we where maintaining the list of know/stable/unstable 
>> applications
>> in that initial page.
>> 
>> don't we have backups?
> 
> no. all content is in a mysql/maraidb database. there is no history of 
> that page
> existing. i looked. i can't even find a transaction entry int he 
> transaction
> table. the content is gone.

I have backup of this, it might not be super fresh, but let me take a 
look.

> BUT all content is reachable. ALL wiki content is indexed there by 
> default.
> 
> as i replied to a recent bug ticket where someone took over the main 
> index wiki
> page and made it uneditable/viewable by anyone but them (the ONLY way 
> to fix
> this was to dig through the database using sql and change a table 
> entry), that
> this is probably a good reason to move stuff over to 
> www.enlightenment.org
> dokuwiki wiki. it is backed by git so all changes get an email with the 
> diff to
> commits mailing list and it contains ALL history so you can revert/go 
> back
> unlike phab.

As you say here, should we continue to allow write of phab wiki ? 
Shouldn't we move all the wiki content to dokuwiki ?

-- 
Bertrand