Wiki.gnome.org will be retired on 23 October 2024

The retirement of wiki.gnome.org was proposed nearly 1 year ago and the planned retirement has been advertised on the wiki for the past 6 months. During that time the migration off the wiki has been proceeding, and we are now at a point where the main uses of the wiki have been replaced.

The decision has therefore been taken to retire the wiki on 23 October 2024. wiki.gnome.org will continue to be available after this date, and all existing pages will still be there. However, none of the content will be editable - it will be a read-only resource from that point on.

More information can be found in the wiki migration guide.

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Will it be possible with the read-only wiki to use features such as ?action=LikePages to have a list of pages?

Example: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GtkSourceView?action=LikePages

?action=raw would be useful too for me.

Example: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GtkSourceView?action=raw

In other words, have the necessary tools to migrate more content from the wiki.

No. If it’s static, by definition, dynamic features (such as anything that uses the HTTP GET verb, as shown by the ? in the URL) won’t work.

It will likely be in a git repo though (I’m still waiting for @barthalion to confirm this). That would mean you can clone it and grep in it, which in my book actually beats the integrated search of MoinMoin.

A git repo of a static archive would mean you have access to the HTML source. Sadly not as convenient as something cleaner like wiki markup, but it’s also not like you could reuse MoinMoin markup in other places and you’d have to convert it anyway. HTML to something else might actually be easier?

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A git repo would be a satisfying solution for me, even if not optimal.

We will provide a read-only git mirror similar to Infrastructure / bugzilla-static · GitLab.

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Just to clarify: do you plan on accepting MRs for the repo, if someone wants to make a change…?

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Wiki is now retired.

Thanks Allan & Infrastructure Team!

Cool. I couldn’t find it under Infrastructure so far.

All the redirects are gone, which is very unfortunate. Do we still have access to the MoinMoin data, so that we could search for them and somehow bring them back?