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[Carthik Sharma]

I would like to see MediaWiki used, too! 

Moving over could be a doc project, with well assigned roles, and
should not take too long.

Let's write a phwiki to mediawiki converter/importer :) (Just kidding)

Regards,
Carthik.

On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 15:39:12 -0700, Craig Hartel <milquetoast at telus.net> wrote:
> 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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