On 09/07/2020 12.22, Thomas Huth wrote: > On 09/07/2020 12.16, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: >> Hi, >> >>>> 2. wiki.qemu.org is a MediaWiki instance. Account creation is a hurdle >>>> to one-time or new contributors. It is unclear whether GitLab's wiki >>>> is expressive enough for a lossless conversion of the existing QEMU >>>> wiki. Any volunteers interested in evaluating the wiki migration would >>>> be appreciated. >>> >>> Yeah, this is a potentially big piece of work. We didn't finish this >>> in libvirt either. Looking at the libvirt mediawiki though, I decided >>> not todo a straight export/import of all content. >> >> FYI: gitlab wiki is basically just a git repo with markdown pages + >> renderer + gui editor. You can also update the wiki using git clone + >> edit + git commit + git push. > > FWIW, seems like we could use the "pandoc" tool to convert Mediawiki > (our old Wiki) to Markdown (Gitlab wiki). I've done a quick test and > converted https://wiki.qemu.org/Contribute/MailingLists into > https://gitlab.com/huth/qemu/-/wikis/Contribute/MailingLists with some > few clicks.
Revisiting this topic after a couple of weeks, I think there is one more thing to consider: If I've got that right, your account has to be a member of the corresponding project to be able to edit a page in the Wiki in gitlab. So unless we want to add lots of persons to the qemu-project as members (which we likely do not really want, do we?), it's maybe better to keep the separate MediaWiki instance with the separate user accounts, I guess? Thomas
