Hi all! I just wanted to advertise once more in case somebody missed it: There is now a https://wiki2025.debian.org/ and work to migrate to a new Mediawiki based Debian wiki is in the progress. If you want to contribute, please see the discussions on https://lists.debian.org/debian-wiki/2025/07/threads.html
On Sun, 19 Jan 2025 at 02:55, Jonathan Dowland <j...@debian.org> wrote: > > Folks, > > Recently a discussion on -devel branched into the topic of the Debian > Wiki (the particular sub-topic was the wish from some to have a > git-backed wiki). Some felt that this discussion should be moved off > -devel, and others pointed out that the Wiki maintainers themselves > should be made aware, and that debian-www@ was the correct place for > that. > > Discussions/desires to enhance or evolve the Wiki are nothing new, and > previous discussions exist in many other places¹. Debian being Debian, > that will always be the case. And rather than try to stamp out > discussion in the "wrong" place, it seems to me a better approach might > be to try and summarize the varied discussions, desires, requirements > and proposals: and the Wiki itself is a good place for that, IMHO. > > To that end, I've created DebianWiki/NextGen, and made an initial > attempt to summarize the current live threads I'm aware of: > <https://wiki.debian.org/DebianWiki/NextGen>. I'll try to update it, and > contributions are welcome. > > I'm sending this (primarily) to debian-www@ as that's the right place > for Wiki discussions, by convention, and to be sure the Wiki maintainers > see it. > > And so on to my 2p's worth: A lot of the discussion I've seen focussed > on (a) narrow list of problems (moin 1.9.x, Python 2), (b) advocates > solutions (e.g. mediawiki) and (c) makes assumptions (we must migrate > all the content in perfect fidelity if we move wiki engine) which might > not hold. I feel we should spend some time thinking hard about what we > want from the Debian Wiki, i.e., a good old-fashioned requirements > analysis, before we look at (b) or (c). > > I'm particularly keen that the Wiki maintainers are in the loop (hence > this mail), but also the current set of active wiki contributors. > > > [1] <https://salsa.debian.org/debian/grow-your-ideas/-/issues/2>
