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

[James Madgwick]

On Fri, 19 Nov 2021 15:29:24 +0100
"Nikola M." <minikola at gmail.com> wrote:

> Wikis are created by multiple users and that is how they are created,
> by changes of the users themselves.
> Problem here is that Wiki is disabled from user access.  Disabling
> both user access and ability to even allowing it to exist and have a
> working wiki is the problem here.
> 
> Manpower is not  a problem, security is solved by fresh install and 
> migrating data. If contributors can access and put it up, and
> manpower is not the issue..
> ..there is no problem, but allowing it to happen.

I believe the problem is that the Wiki was provided by Atlassian
Confluence software. This is not open source software, it looked like
Confluence had originally been provided for free to OI because OI is an
open source project. The version of Confluence which the Wiki was using
was very old, unstable and most importantly, had many vulnerabilities.

A fresh installation of Confluence is not going to be possible. One
option could be to create a new community Wiki. It would be best if
this used an open source platform such as Mediawiki
(https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki). There would also need to be
agreement on what content should be part of the Wiki and what should be
in the docs.

James