(08-07-2018, 06:02 PM)Mario Wrote: 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.
I think it is important to have this discussion now, though, considering a lot of people seem to feel that the wiki is not doing the site any favors. It's better to discuss what a solid plan would look like now, so we can implement it later, after LunaSMS or whatnot. It'd be great to have everything banged out beforehand, the purpose, the method of removal, all that.
(08-07-2018, 06:02 PM)Mario Wrote:
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.
This is probably the best idea if the majority of MFGGers end up wanting archive, which seems to be the case.
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