[OpenIndiana-discuss] wiki.openindiana.org needs to be re/started and fixed

[Nikola M.]

On 10/18/21 23:11, James Madgwick wrote:
> Indeed, the contents of the Wiki have also been backed up to GitHub.
> However the repo it is in has not been made public because the Wiki
> also contained other information which is sensitive and can't be public.

Wiki raw data can be used for Wiki service to restart and by the Wiki 
service itself then.
Wiki raw data stays on Wiki side as always,
and when Wiki is restarted and on the new hosting, everything that is 
supposed made public is served as for years before, including having an 
integrated discussion space for articles.
Everything everyone ever published on Wiki is there to be publicly 
available by their authors and there is not much sensitive on it, except 
maybe connection between mail addresses , usernames and wiki account 
passwords and that Wiki manages itself internally.

> I've now removed the images
> (~70MB) and put it here:
> https://gist.github.com/JMadgwick/8a488ca4430aa0f50b7d5c5e31f60361/raw/390ff69310bf3756086ff90dfa156a6ce2fcab89/oi%2520Confluence-space-export.tar.xz

Maybe that article archive can be useful and include images, too, is 
size constrain is a problem,
it can be hosted outside of Github with images.

>> Andreas Wacknitz helped James Madgewick in the past to do an export.
>>
>> So James Madgewick has an export of the wiki and is working on
>> further migrating the contents to oi-docs.
Everything about Wiki and it's freedom to be easy to contribute, publish 
and discuss, (Without the need to jhave every single change, or talk, 
being "approved" from someone else over GIT).
Wiki is self-hosted and is independent from external resources 
availability as opposed to external service as Github.

Wiki functionality is not be replaced and it is not the solution 
avoiding the issue of restarting working wiki.
Issue is that Wiki needs to be restarted as a service and not keeping it 
closed under various pretenses.

Wikis themselves do not have security problems when put up on new 
infrastructure with new and supported software,
so security problems are not a real issue when maintained, as is not the 
lack of manpower for maintaining Wiki infrastructure.

Wikis do not need "appointed censor" to decide only by itself without 
any discussion or process what is to stay on Wiki and what is not, but 
it is there by merit, usefulness and collaboration.
With wiki, every article author is included in changes and re-engaged.

Wiki is very important tool for new users to start contributing, it is 
form of free space that, on one place promotes the project name.

Wikis serve as a proof of the project openness for new people, closing 
them down serves only to closing down communities.

Closing community spaces and turning them in tightly-controlled and 
appointed ones, without actual wider community influx , leads to OI 
brand name bad reputation in a wider sense,
for proprietary handling things on closed source mailing lists, not 
available to the public and available only to selected people.