08-07-2018, 06:02 PM
We should just delete the wiki. I don't think it makes much sense to dive into creating a new one at the moment. LumaSMS is coming, eventually, and the needs of what a MFGG wiki should be may or may not change when we have new site and forum software. With that in mind, I feel like any hasty reboot is juts going to repeat the mistakes of the current wiki. Hold off on creating a new wiki until we have the new site and forums and figure out if we really need a wiki at all, and if we do, have some good reasons to justify it. The wiki Sysops have said before it's hectic to manage the current wiki and not many people are interested in doing it- I don't think the sudden burst of interest in a wiki is going to last unless we really have a good justification for having it and a solid plan in place; and the solid plan just doesn't make sense to have at this time.
That being said I propose deletion over archiving because I think deleting it can be done in a way that's fair to everyone. We set a specific date when it's going down (maybe a month from when we decide to delete it) and let everyone who's interested know now's the time to grab what you want from there. I won't argue there isn't any interesting information on there someone might want to save, but I don't think we need to keep up a big bloated software open forever because of it. I think this solution would put all parties minds at ease.
If we must archive it, I propose the following. We export all current articles to pure HTML; don't save any revision history or any other kind of meta data. What you see on the wiki now is what you'd get, more or less. This eases the pain of keeping MediaWiki up and running for eternity and keeps the real meat and bones of the wiki around. It makes it simple to manage the archive for whoever has ftp access to it and gets pretty much any potential security issues out of the way. We also block off search robots and remove major links to it. I think all we really need for it is a thread on the forums in the archive boards that links to it really.
""We choose to go to the [Suggestions board] not because it's easy, but because it's hard; because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win."
- John F. Kennedy"
- gothgirlgangblastermaster
That being said I propose deletion over archiving because I think deleting it can be done in a way that's fair to everyone. We set a specific date when it's going down (maybe a month from when we decide to delete it) and let everyone who's interested know now's the time to grab what you want from there. I won't argue there isn't any interesting information on there someone might want to save, but I don't think we need to keep up a big bloated software open forever because of it. I think this solution would put all parties minds at ease.
If we must archive it, I propose the following. We export all current articles to pure HTML; don't save any revision history or any other kind of meta data. What you see on the wiki now is what you'd get, more or less. This eases the pain of keeping MediaWiki up and running for eternity and keeps the real meat and bones of the wiki around. It makes it simple to manage the archive for whoever has ftp access to it and gets pretty much any potential security issues out of the way. We also block off search robots and remove major links to it. I think all we really need for it is a thread on the forums in the archive boards that links to it really.
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""We choose to go to the [Suggestions board] not because it's easy, but because it's hard; because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win."
- John F. Kennedy"
- gothgirlgangblastermaster
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