Sysadmin Load Reduction: Project Specific Sites

[Carl Schwan]

Hello all,

I now created a repository[1] with the content automatically extracted from mediawiki with a script. The extracted result is very bad but I started cleaning it see commit[2]. This need to be moved to the website git namespace, but until this is done I granted every KDE developer push access. I would be very grateful if some other peoples could help clean some generated pages (you only need knowledge in markdown) for inspiration you can look at [2]

And it would be nice if the rkward devs could provide a new version of https://rkward.kde.org/File:RKWard_060_450.png (using breeze theme and icons and not from 2012).

Let's try to update this website very soon since the mediawiki version is still 1.19 (EOL 2015)

Cheers

Carl Schwan
https://carlschwan.eu

[1]: https://invent.kde.org/carlschwan/rkward-kde-org
[2]: https://invent.kde.org/carlschwan/rkward-kde-org/commit/f4a1ee44cf0d753c41cdf6cfc8a87ae6cee7fcae

‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
On Tuesday, November 12, 2019 7:27 PM, Ben Cooksley <bcooksley at kde.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 10, 2019 at 4:10 AM Thomas Friedrichsmeier
> thomas.friedrichsmeier at ruhr-uni-bochum.de wrote:
> 

> > Hi Ben,
> 

> Hi Thomas,
> 

> > On Sat, 9 Nov 2019 12:50:07 +1300
> > Ben Cooksley bcooksley at kde.org wrote:
> > 

> > > -   RKWard (rkward.kde.org): This site is currently based on Mediawiki,
> > >     which is substantially more difficult to maintain and keep updated
> > >     compared to a site built using Hugo, Jekyll, Wordpress or Drupal.
> > >     

> > > 

> > > Given that the site was last updated back in early 2018, i'd like to
> > > make this static, and should updates need to be made in the future the
> > > content can then be converted at that time into something more easy to
> > > maintain.
> > 

> > please not static. I know we have not been active of late, but it
> > totally won't help, if we need to climb a hill of administrative tasks,
> > before we can even get starting thinking about making a new release.
> > Frankly, we did not come to KDE back in the day in order to increase
> > our administrative overhead...
> > We're really open to solutions of all kinds. Twice sysadmin had
> > proposed to somehow unify the rkward mediawiki installation with
> > the techbase and userbase installation. We gave green light on both
> > occasions, but nothing happened after that.
> 

> Apologies for that - in each instance the person who was going to work
> on it disappeared.
> 

> > I wouldn't mind any other hosting solution, really, it doesn't have to
> > be wiki-based. Provided that we can have a - relatively - smooth
> > migration path, and that we don't have to switch to something new yet
> > again, in two or three years.
> 

> Would something based on Markdown be sufficient for this?
> There appear to be Mediawiki -> Markdown converters out there we can
> use which will get us 95% of the way there.
> 

> > Regards
> > Thomas
> 

> Cheers,
> Ben

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