I emailed with Jacob.
There are a few parts to this:
* The wiki was getting a lot of load (see my email)
* Jacob is currently pretty much the only admin the PSF has and so
load is high on him as well
* The wiki engine is ancient and cannot handle the load anymore
* We will start looking into alternative backend systems and then
migrate, e.g. Wiki.js or Bookstack
* Until then, the wiki is run in static form
We do need to get the incoming URLs working again, though. This should
be possible using a redirect directive.
I asked him to update the header accordingly.
The migration will be a bit tricky, but should be doable.
Communication could have been better, but yeah... at least now we know
what the plan is.
Does anyone have experience with Wiki.js or Bookstack ?
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On 16.02.2026 17:10, Mats Wichmann wrote:
On 2/16/26 02:36, Chris Angelico via pydotorg-www wrote:
On Mon, 16 Feb 2026 at 20:05, Marc-Andre Lemburg <[email protected]> wrote:
Could you please explain when, why and by whom this decision was
made without first consulting the group maintaining the wiki (that's
pydotorg-www and myself) ?
Or even notifying us. This is news to me.
Wow. What a community-friendly way to make a change. Don't tell
anybody, just can it.
It wasn't that long ago the docs team was looking at doing more with
the wiki.
Of course, "blame AI" isn't an entirely phony argument - the website
for a project I work on recently had to be taken offline for a while
as it was getting hammered so hard by scrapers it was starting to run
up charges from the "free" hosting. Back now; the admin fixed things
up by sending things through CloudFlare which seems to have blocked
the noise.
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