moving to a git-backed wiki

On Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 10:34:24AM -0800, Scott Chacon wrote:

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GitHub's wiki gets this right. I'm not saying we should host our wiki
there (well, it _would_ make setting it up pretty damn easy). But their
wiki system (gollum) is open-source, albeit in ruby. And surely there
are other git-backed alternatives (it's been a while since I've looked).

If you want to use the wiki on the git/git repo on GitHub that is
being mirrored from the canonical repository, I've added Junio and
peff to the account.  If you want to use that wiki, anyone with a
github account can edit wiki pages on the site or clone and edit it
locally and push changes up.  You can also turn off site edits so
people have to send Junio a patch instead.  It's up to you guys, but
the access is there now if you want.

Out of curiosity, I scraped the kernel wiki and put it into gollum. The
results are here, if people want to see what it looks like:

  https://github.com/peff/foo/wiki

It's extremely quick and dirty, which is why I didn't put it in the
actual git/git/wiki spot you made. Some of the formatting is off (note
that I didn't do any conversion; it understands mediawiki natively), and
some of the content is probably missing (my scraper was extremely
naive). For a real import I would try to get the actual wiki db from
kernel.org and import the entire history.

I dunno what the next step would be. I would really prefer a git-backed
wiki, but moving to something like this is a pretty big step in workflow
for people who use the current wiki. I would be curious to hear general
opinions (on the idea of moving, assuming we did a conversion that
actually looked good). I'll change the subject and see if we get any
comments.

-Peff