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May 13th, 2008

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Warning! Warning! New Wiki Coming!
I love my job. I do. But sometimes being the infrastructure team lead blows because you get stuck doing the stuff no one in their right mind will volunteer for. It also means getting stuck taking the blame for stuff that goes wrong. This is one of those times. We've come a long way from:

http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2007-December/msg00802.html

to:

https://publictest1.fedoraproject.org/wiki/

But I'm still not totally happy with the conversion script. At this point though its putting in a lot of effort for minimal gain. The bottom line is Moin just isn't cutting it for us anymore. We're moving to mediawiki. There's a small SIG of various team leads thats been working on this with me. There's around 12,000 pages and over 4,000 attachments and currently thousands and thousands of users. Combine that with my mediocre python skills and publictest1 is what you're going to get!

So what can you do?

Go through the publictest1 page listed above (no editing yet, expect it soon though with OpenID + FAS support). Find things that don't look right. By that I mean look for things broken on many pages. If its just on your page or a couple, just fix the problem after the migration.

Lots of things are different in Mediawiki then Moin. Some of these differences are at the very core of why Moin is so unscalable. Become familiar with this page:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/WikiMigration

If you have a concern contact your team lead listed on that page. If your team is not represented, sorry about that, please add yourself.

We're looking at deploying on the 20th or the 27th. Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns. This is going to involve pain for at least the couple of weeks after its deployed. If you have a ticket to file please do so here:

https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ ; PLEASE put the keyword "WIKI" in the ticket.

If you want to be 100% sure your issue will get fixed... submit a patch otherwise you might just be stuck fixing it after the migration.

http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/fedora-infrastruture.git/scripts/moin2mw/

Props goes out to ivazquez for unicode support and ianweller who has helped me become more familiar with mediawiki and continues to be a valuable asset in this conversion.

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From:	mvpittman
Date:	May 14th, 2008 04:09 pm (UTC)

A word of encouragment

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Hey, keep working at it. At least your fighting the good fight. As "just some random guy on the Internet" I want you to know that I think the wiki/FedoraProject.org is important to me.

I want you to know that I appreciate it, and many more people who won't write or complain will be happy when you take that giant leap forward.

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From:	ricky.fedorapeople.org
Date:	May 15th, 2008 10:24 pm (UTC)

OpenID

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This comment brought to you by our new OpenID provider (powered by Samadhi). Thanks, jcollie!

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From:	https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/openid/id/mmcgrath/
Date:	May 16th, 2008 03:07 am (UTC)

Woot

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OpenID test

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From:	ricky.fedorapeople.org
Date:	May 16th, 2008 03:12 am (UTC)

I'm not really ricky

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But I seem to be :)

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From:	neojima
Date:	May 17th, 2008 06:24 pm (UTC)

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Those Infrastructure guys are insane. Who would volunteer for such a thankless job? Suckers.

Mad props to the whole lot of them. Except that Patrick Laughton guy, he's reeeaaally lazy.

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From:	(Anonymous)
Date:	June 6th, 2008 06:57 am (UTC)

A word of encouragment

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Woot

I'm not really ricky

Skin