helping organize x.org documentation

[Oliver McFadden]

On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 07:09 +0200, ext Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> Oliver McFadden wrote:
> > Right, that's true. I would suggest switching over to MediaWiki at some
> > point though. This could of course be after cleaning up the docs.
> 
> I like MediaWiki too, at least from the user perspective, but X.Org's wiki
> is hosted by freedesktop.org, who leverages the admin effort of maintaining
> the wiki software across a number of sites (x.org, fd.o, fontconfig.org, etc.),
> so it's not entirely up to us, nor fair of us to demand a change unless the
> other hosted wiki's are up for it too.

Yeah, this is fair enough.

> Any wiki migration is a huge pain of document conversion, since no two
> wiki markup languages are exactly alike.

I'm reasonably sure I remember there being scripts to convert from most
formats into MediaWiki's syntax -- although how reliable they are is
another story. But yeah, there would probably be some manual work
involved.

-- Oliver.