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[Craig Hartel]

Well, I've been involved in docs for a while, and I'm happy to keep helping out 
in that regard. If there is grunt work to be done in the case of a change over 
to MediaWiki, then I'm up for the challenge. If you set up the framing, we 
doctypes can run the wiring and do the wallboard.

Craig.

Matt Mullenweg wrote:

> Scott Merrill wrote:
> 
>> While we're throwing out suggestions, I'd like to advocate for 
>> MediaWiki instead of phpWiki.  I realize that the conversion would be 
>> awkward, but in my short time fiddling with MediaWiki I've found it to 
>> offer a lot of useful features.
> 
> 
> I've been thinking about converting the wiki for the very reasons you 
> mention. The biggest pain would be existing links, from other sites and 
> in WordPress itself! If I do end up installing MediaWiki it will be on a 
> different subdomain (like docs.wordpress.org) and we could use the 
> redirect function in phpWiki (which I love) to point to new pages as 
> they are created.
> 
> Good reasons for MediaWiki:
> 
> * Very active development (phpWiki is weird in this regard)
> * XHTML compliant
> * Allows image attachment and such
> * Friendlier interface in general
> * Has long-term viability (as long as wikipedia is around)
> * More user-friendly
> 
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