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Wiki Migration

More than 400 pages and many users contributing, we have surpassed the limits of our original wiki engine: Tinywiki. This page documents the thinking behind our choice of replacement.

We need a wiki that...

Is easy to use. We want to encourage players to improve the wiki, it is not only for developers.
Prevents vandalism. Most probably with user authentication.
Has categorization. Even if it is very simple, we need some kind of categorization or sub-sections.

Wiki engines tested so far

Here are some important features/problems of various wiki engines:

Pmwiki
- http://wesnoth.slack.it/wiki/
- No user registration
Dokuwiki
- http://wesnoth.slack.it/dokuwiki/
- Incomplete user registration (it is not even possible to change/reset the password)
Moinmoin
- This one is good, especially, the global blacklisting system. Anything matching one of the regexps on a (hourlysynchronized) central list can't get posted, and apparently, would have caught all the spam attacks we get here: http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/BadContent (Allefant)
Mediawiki.
- http://www.wesnoth.org/wiki/
- This is what we moved to after TinyWiki
Wikkawiki

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 ==  Wiki Migration  ==
-The wiki has proven to be a very useful tool to develop the game and the community around it. However, with ~400 pages
+More than 400 pages and many users contributing, we have surpassed the limits of our original wiki engine: Tinywiki. This page documents the thinking behind our choice of replacement.
-and many users contributing, we have probably surpassed the limits of our current wiki engine: Tinywiki. That is why we
-are looking for a replacement.
-=== We want a wiki that... ===
+=== We need a wiki that... ===
 * Is easy to use. We want to encourage players to improve the wiki, it is not only for developers.
-* Prevents vandalism. Most probably with user athentication.
+* Prevents vandalism. Most probably with user authentication.
 * Has categorization. Even if it is very simple, we need some kind of categorization or sub-sections.
 === Wiki engines tested so far ===
-I tend to forget the reasons why I like/hate some wikis. I'll try to describe the most important features/problems of
+Here are some important features/problems of various wiki engines:
-each wiki engine here.
 * [http://www.pmwiki.org Pmwiki]
 ** http://wesnoth.slack.it/wiki/
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 ** Incomplete user registration (it is not even possible to change/reset the password)
 * [http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/ Moinmoin]
-** This one is good, especially, the global blacklisting system. Anything matching one of the regexps on a (hourly
+** This one is good, especially, the global blacklisting system. Anything matching one of the regexps on a (hourlysynchronized) central list can't get posted, and apparently, would have caught all the spam attacks we get here: http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/[[BadContent]] (Allefant)
-synchronized) central list can't get posted, and apparently, would have catched all the spam attacks we get here:
-http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/[[BadContent]] (Allefant)
 * [http://www.mediawiki.org Mediawiki].
 ** http://www.wesnoth.org/wiki/
-** Mediawiki 1.4 (released a few days ago) seems to be faster then the previous version I tried.
+** This is what we moved to after TinyWiki
 * [http://wikka.jsnx.com Wikkawiki]
-=== Status ===
-We are in the first stages of the real migration. Please, check http://wesnoth.org/wiki/Main_Page for the latest news
-and more information. And let us know if there is any problem.