[wiki]: Bringing FIRSTwiki back

[virtuald]

Originally Posted by StevenB

I'm very late to this thread, but I can offer to host a MediaWiki solution to FIRSTWiki. I'm already paying for a web server, so it's no problem to host more content, and I run a MediaWiki installation for my lab group. We do need some people to volunteer to be regular admins, but I think it should be sufficient for someone to check briefly every day or two.

I'm also happy to pay for a domain name. firstwiki.org and first.wiki are taken, so I was thinking about firstrobotics.wiki. Any other suggestions?

Thanks for the generous offer. However, the github solution already exists, and people are making some contributions (though perhaps not quite as many as a MediaWiki implementation would receive). I don't see a good rationale to switch at this time.

I don't personally have time to do a migration, nor do I have the time to check in on the server on a daily basis.

[Cothron Theiss]

Originally Posted by StevenB

I'm very late to this thread, but I can offer to host a MediaWiki solution to FIRSTWiki. I'm already paying for a web server, so it's no problem to host more content, and I run a MediaWiki installation for my lab group. We do need some people to volunteer to be regular admins, but I think it should be sufficient for someone to check briefly every day or two.

I'm also happy to pay for a domain name. firstwiki.org and first.wiki are taken, so I was thinking about firstrobotics.wiki. Any other suggestions?

Originally Posted by virtuald

Thanks for the generous offer. However, the github solution already exists, and people are making some contributions (though perhaps not quite as many as a MediaWiki implementation would receive). I don't see a good rationale to switch at this time.

I don't personally have time to do a migration, nor do I have the time to check in on the server on a daily basis.

It's obviously not my call, but I'd be happy to help with switching over to the MediaWiki and contributing. I think getting more in line with the wiki format over the GitHub format is a bigger deal than you might think.

Either way, I haven't forgotten that I said I would try and help contribute to FIRSTWiki. I still am wanting to help contribute, and I would be willing to increase my level of involvement if you choose to move over to MediaWiki and need the manpower.

[frcguy]

Originally Posted by Cothron Theiss

It's obviously not my call, but I'd be happy to help with switching over to the MediaWiki and contributing. I think getting more in line with the wiki format over the GitHub format is a bigger deal than you might think.

Either way, I haven't forgotten that I said I would try and help contribute to FIRSTWiki. I still am wanting to help contribute, and I would be willing to increase my level of involvement if you choose to move over to MediaWiki and need the manpower.

I'll +1 this. I'm down to help migrate over and I have plenty of time to be an admin and check the wiki multiple times a day.

[virtuald]

My goal is for the FIRST community to have somewhere to put generally useful things that aren't really in the FIRST documentation. The original FIRSTwiki tried to provide that service and fell into disrepair. This is my initiative to provide that location.

If anyone else wishes to create a parallel FIRSTwiki on a mediawiki platform, please feel free to do so. If either of our efforts succeed, then I will have met my original goal. The content on firstwiki.github.io is licensed under a free documentation license that allows you to copy the content -- and don't forget about all the content that I scraped from the original FIRSTwiki that I haven't imported yet!

I will continue operating the github FIRSTwiki site (as the level of effort to maintain it is rather close to zero), and do not wish to spend any time on alternative solutions at this time.