<html>#2256: transfer ET wiki from mediawiki to bitbucket wiki (markdown)
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<tr><td style='text-align:right'> Reporter:</td><td>Roland Haas</td></tr>
<tr><td style='text-align:right'> Status:</td><td>open</td></tr>
<tr><td style='text-align:right'>Milestone:</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td style='text-align:right'> Version:</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td style='text-align:right'> Type:</td><td>task</td></tr>
<tr><td style='text-align:right'> Priority:</td><td>minor</td></tr>
<tr><td style='text-align:right'>Component:</td><td>EinsteinToolkit website</td></tr>
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<p>Comment (by Roland Haas):</p>
<p>The confluence wiki is very different from bitbucket’s wiki. Confluence uses something else (some XML variant) to internally store its data and has lots of plugins for different things. It is also WYSIWG only.</p>
<p>My main drive to use Bitbucket (and not something else) is that we are already using Bitbucket for the repos so it will not be yet another account.</p>
<p>I have not tried this conversion at all before (other than running a single mediawiki page through pandoc) so it may well not work. I would be very happy if someone who has experienced this (you apparently) could provide some report on the problems encountered.</p>
<p>While in principle we would benefit from the large ecosystem of mediawiki, in practise we do not since the mediawiki instance ins hampered by being quite old and not being easily updatable (has to do with how user accounts are managed apparently). Eg the currently running <a data-is-external-link="true" href="https://docs.einsteintoolkit.org/et-docs/Special:Version" rel="nofollow">instance</a> is 1.31.0 which is from <a data-is-external-link="true" href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/MediaWiki_1.31" rel="nofollow">2018-04</a> . </p>
<p>This is the current list of extensions in our mediawiki: <a data-is-external-link="true" href="https://docs.einsteintoolkit.org/et-docs/Special:Version#mw-version-ext" rel="nofollow">https://docs.einsteintoolkit.org/et-docs/Special:Version#mw-version-ext</a></p>
<p>We are also experiencing spam issues on the wiki <a data-is-external-link="true" href="https://docs.einsteintoolkit.org/et-docs/Special:ActiveUsers" rel="nofollow">https://docs.einsteintoolkit.org/et-docs/Special:ActiveUsers</a> with pages being created to advertise “stuff”. This is in spite of using Google’s recaptcha test.</p>
<p>The Bitbucket wiki is not open source yet its storage format is just a bunch of markdown files (and the wiki itself is is a git repo) so one can easily grab it and convert to anything else.</p>
<p>So, I am definitely not wedded to Bitbucket b
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Ticket URL: <a href='https://bitbucket.org/einsteintoolkit/tickets/issues/2256/transfer-et-wiki-from-mediawiki-to'>https://bitbucket.org/einsteintoolkit/tickets/issues/2256/transfer-et-wiki-from-mediawiki-to</a></p>
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