wiki change?

Pierre-Marie Baty · **wiki change? -** 01-02-2005

I have never been fond of our current wiki; it doesn't look nice, it doesn't feel nice either (serif fonts, pages too large, impractical editor), the syntax is different from other wikis and although I've never tried yet I know it's a pain to reskin.

KoraX proposed to use MediaWiki: it's the wiki engine for http://www.wikipedia.org
It has a lot of features, side bar on the left, comfort of use, nice font, automatic page organization, generation of printable pages, edit bar with buttons for a quasi-wysiwyg feel, and I've seen in other sites that it handles code fine.

What do you think? Is it worth the switch?

@Nova and Onno, do you think it would be hard to switch?

@$3.1415rin · **Re: wiki change? -** 01-02-2005

i dont have problems with our current wiki ( just a formula editor would be nice

), but I know that the look might hold some ppl at distance ... if somebody has time to install the new one ... fine with me. dunno about converting the data currently in our wiki ... maybe this could even be done manually, everbody his articles and fine ... not really much there

koraX · **Re: wiki change? -** 01-02-2005

As I already said, I personally would prefer mediawiki engine, also because I daily visit wikipedia. Wikipedia comunity is huge and IMO mediawiki engine is more mature, with obviously better functions and support.

About switching, I do not know how many content do you have here on bot-united wiki, but sooner you switch, less data you would have to convert.
Wiki syntax is somewhat similar between different implementations, so porting data manually should not be very tough. (I do not have personal experience with this admining wiki though)

BTW If you don't know wikipedia, go visit it. It has articles about everyting. From common stuff like glass, actual informations like recent tsunami to highly specific articles for bot coders, like A*, Hash tables ...

Pierre-Marie Baty · **Re: wiki change? -** 01-02-2005

@Aspirin: MediaWiki knows LaTeX syntax... ahaaa!

@$3.1415rin · **Re: wiki change? -** 01-02-2005

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Originally Posted by Pierre-Marie Baty

@Aspirin: MediaWiki knows LaTeX syntax... ahaaa!

I know

KWo · **Re: wiki change? -** 02-02-2005

The current look of wiki for me is unf***ing usable. When I was trying to find the info about botaim I found it only because I knew - there it should be somewhere. But how did I should know it before - I should 've looking for it in BotCodeSamples if I didn't see it before (maybe I should've looking for it in BotFaq)? I mean we need something better to show some summary list of all articles existing in wiki. There is all mixed - botfaq, after You have some info about email account and other server stuffs and after again You have some info for bot-coding (developerWiki). If I can suggest - try to orgainize it a bit better during switching to the new system.

I mean some start page for users-readers. At the first page currently there is too many links to info how to create new articles or how to use the wiki system - this info should be one level deeper - for articles authors and wiki admins.
I didn't look to this current wiki long time, because after first look at it (after joining BU) I was totally lost in it.

@$3.1415rin · **Re: wiki change? -** 02-02-2005

there is a start page and you often can go where you want by just clicking, but it doesnt look that structured

Pierre-Marie Baty · **Re: wiki change? -** 02-02-2005

so, switch or no switch ?

koraX · **Re: wiki change? -** 02-02-2005

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Originally Posted by Pierre-Marie Baty

so, switch or no switch ?

green is to switch, red is not to switch :

Pierre-Marie Baty · **Re: wiki change? -** 02-02-2005

lol
okay, since aspirin doesn't seem to be against it I'm waiting for either stefan or nova or botmeister's opinion so that we have the majority. Great