ItsExtra commented 4 years ago

In another project, I have been using MediaWiki which the host miraheze provides for free. It's quite flexible and easy to use.

I am considering moving the writing/content development work from WP to MW. I have requested a wiki be created.

Potential advantages:

Separate the work of web development from content creation. I am finding myself getting bogged down creating the content because the site development ends up distracting me
MW has extensive collaborative features built-in, which is something I have been struggling to integrate into WP
Having a completely separate place to write will avoid mistaken posting of incomplete or otherwise inappropriate content to main site
Will allow transparency in terms of work being done to those who want to see this, while keeping the main site itself clean and concise
Miraheze offering ready-to-go free hosting without a lot of (distracting) fucking around with back end stuff
It is also available for easy install on existing host (via cPanel Softaculous) should a local instance be preferable
Could possibly move away from this GitHub (there are several reasons why that is desirable)

Potential disadvantages:

have to migrate all existing content from WP to MW--- I will test a few items to see how it goes
Once done, will have to move content which'll be used back to WP again--- again, I will test this on a small scale to see how easy/terrible it is

Both advantages and disadvantages, depending how you look at it:

Get/have to lean MW
Features which are available on MW may not be on WP. For example I spent quite some time trying to find a glossary extension for WP. None of the free options do what I would want. I'd be willing to pay a reasonable price for something that worked, but am not sure of the requirements as this is in progress. Writing on MW, where this tool is readily available, would let us see how valuable it would be. But if eventually the decision was made not to purchase additional extensions for WP, things would have to be reworked.

ItsExtra commented 4 years ago

Relevant documentation

About using MW in general

About to and fro migration

From WP to MW

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Importing_external_content

Existing sites are difficult migrate to mediawiki structure: to "wikify" existing content from text files, HTML websites, or even office documents can be automated, but you'll have to write appropriate scripts on your own, and almost always must edit manually.

The extension this page suggests, Semantic Bundle are maybe not available on miraheze. I am not sure how important this is to the task at hand however.

There is nothing specific about WP here, though the closest is Converting content from HTML which suggests use of pandoc. I think either this or manual copy/paste (as there aren't that many pages to move) are reasonable options for setting things up initially.

Miraheze documentation

Personal_tools

Other extensions or gadgets which add to personal tools

Admin Links adds, for users designated as admins, a link to the "Admin Links" page

Echo adds notifications

Education Program adds courses

LiquidThreads adds new messages

ULS adds a language selector

Some large Wikipedias (such as the English Wikipedia) include a "My sandbox" link to Special:MyPage/sandbox.

Wikimedia Commons adds "My uploads"

ManageWiki

ManageWiki is a MediaWiki extension developed for Miraheze that allows wiki administrators, bureaucrats, or local founder to easily modify their wikis settings. They are able to do basic things such as changing the logo, enable extensions like VisualEditor or Flow, create user groups and customize every action a given group of users can (not) do, among other things.

Permissions:

~~"Default groups & permissions" does not match reality.~~ it's at /wiki/Special:ManageWiki/permissions

ItsExtra commented 4 years ago

Just as a note, the developers of xWiki also have free wikis available. I tried them in the past but didn't like it as much though I can't articulate why. It's also an option though.

ItsExtra / m4ftm

MediaWiki for writing and collaboration #49

Relevant documentation

About using MW in general

About to and fro migration

From WP to MW

Miraheze documentation

Personal_tools

ManageWiki

Extensions available on miraheze that could be useful

For later / low priority

about templates

Categories, organization, taxonomies etc