news 28 Posted May 27, 2008 The migration to Mediawiki is finally complete! The technical side, that is. Now is the part where we all learn how to migrate our knowledge and clean-up content. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ There are many things you need to keep in mind while exploring and learning this new environment. Yes, the markup language is a little different, but there are also new conventions to learn. As you proceed, use this page to guide you: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraProject:Wiki_migration_to-do Put a watch on that page, that is your best resource for initial problem resolution. It's important to know that some formatting and perhaps some content has not cleanly migrated. If you come across an error, edit and fix the problems you see. With our many eyes and hands we make this transition as painless as possible. For initial support, how-to help, and so forth, visit #fedora-docs on irc.freenode.net. Technical issues are escalated to #fedora-admin. Refer to [[FedoraProject:Wiki_migration_to-do]] for more on this. Keep the following in mind: * Log in with your FAS username. We no longer use WikiName. If you don't have a FAS username, obtain one at https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/. * MANUALLY move your old home page to the new location of /wiki/User:username. For example, I moved /wiki/MikeMcGrath to /wiki/User:Mmcgrath. Mediawiki handles the redirect properly so your old link continues to work. * Your list of watch pages are _NOT_ migrated over. This is because mediawiki does not support regular expressions. Instructions for migrating your watchlist are on the [[FedoraProject:Wiki_migration_to-do]] page. * Page restrictions - The ACL system is now controlled by the admin team. If you find an ACL you had put in place no longer works, please contact admin fedoraproject org or stop by #fedora-admin on irc.freenode.net * HTML is no longer allowed. Due to security concerns (that also existed in Moin) raw HTML is no longer allowed in page source. Read [[FedoraProject:Wiki_migration_to-do#Images_and_Attachments]] for more information. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraProject:Wiki_migration_to-do#Images_and_Attachments * Attachments in MediaWiki are all stored in one location. They have been migrated. As an example, if the old attachment was at: ./Marketing/Flyer/ attachment:fc6_front.png The new location for it is: Marketing_Flyer_fc6_front.png * Browse all attachments and images at [[special:Uncategorizedimages]] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Special:Uncategorizedimages * The old wiki continues to be available in read-only mode at http://fedoraproject.org/wikiold/ for $unspecified_amount_of_time after the migration. The [[FedoraProject:Wiki_migration_to-do#Subproject_and_SIG_teams_to-do_list]] has tips on obtaining raw source content from that wiki if needed. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraProject:Wiki_migration_to-do#Subproject_and_SIG_teams_to-do_list Following this migration, we'll begin discussing and rolling out procedures to take advantage of other MediaWiki features, such as categories and namespaces. Thanks for your support, Mike McGrath, on behalf of the wiki migration team -- Share this post Link to post
