Re: [GMOD-devel] [Gmod-tripal] Migrating gmod.org advice/RFC

[Scott C. <sc...@sc...>]

Hi Hilmar,

Definitely true--I made one attempt at moving the gmod wiki a few months
ago, and found 1) that just taking everything wholesale and putting it in
the right place didn't work, even though I tried to replicate versions as
best I could, and 2) when I updated MediaWiki as minimally as possible, I
still lost one of the extensions I like best (the tag cloud one) and it
will likely have to be replaced with something I like less.


On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 3:12 PM, Hilmar Lapp <hl...@dr...> wrote:

>
> On Sep 1, 2016, at 1:24 PM, Dave Clements <cle...@ga...>
> wrote:
>
> *So, my vote is stick with MediaWiki.*  I don't think there is any hope
> of migrating to GFM without seriously mangling 90%+ of the pages.
>
>
>
> I’d mostly agree with that. I think in general the pains of migrating a
> MediaWiki are often overestimated, perhaps because most people you speak to
> have never done it (or have never had to). I’ve brought up 5 from dumps
> over the last couple of months. If you follow the instructions, it usually
> works.
>
> That said, the one factor that in my experience can complicate things (and
> explode time needed) tremendously may well apply to the GMOD wiki, and
> that’s use of a lot of extensions. Extensions often don’t keep up with the
> main MediaWiki version and so aren’t available, or are buggy for the latest
> MediaWiki version. Even when they still are available and current, they
> sometime have changed their markup rules. Accommodating all that can be a
> real pain.
>
>   -hilmar
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> Hilmar Lapp -:- lappland.io
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