Proposal for wiki: Move from wiki.mozillaindia.org to wiki.mozilla.org

[Akshay S Dinesh]

Hey documenters,

We have taken a backup of our wiki and kept it for spam cleanup since
a long time. Due to various technical issues, it doesn't look like
it'll be cleaned up any time soon either. [B]

[B]: http://bugz.mozillaindia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31

There is a discourse thread [D] which asks communities that host their
own wiki on why they do so. And the biggest reasons I see are

* historic reasons
* easier to get permissions
* more articles might be in scope.

[D]: https://discourse.mozilla-community.org/t/do-you-host-your-own-wiki-we-want-to-talk-to-you/2016

If you go through the list [L] of articles that we backed up manually,
you can see that all those articles would be in Mozilla Wiki's scope
too. So there is a very good chance that whatever pages we would want
to create can be created on Mozilla Wiki too.

If you go through the list of editors [E] on our wiki, (which I'd made
in a hurry in one night) you can see that there are very few of them
and therefore it would be easy enough to get edit permissions for each
person on the Mozilla Wiki also. (In fact, I think most of them in
this list would already have accounts on Mozilla Wiki)

[L]: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1D1Q-LYqmwFUidVYghoeMWUFAImx0pB2nRJ3rw_w3Iq0/edit?usp=sharing
[E]: https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/india.Wiki-editors-whitelist


Keeping all of that in mind, I propose that we restore the articles
that we've manually backed up to the Mozilla Wiki and take
wiki.mozillaindia.org offline as a permanent solution to this fix.

(There's a very small risk that Mozilla will kill Mozilla Wiki itself.
But let's hope that stupidity doesn't happen)

I also want to add that what I proposed here is how things are
happening already. I just want us to officialize that.

Akshay
https://mozillians.org/asdofindia

[Akshay S Dinesh]

I made this a discourse thread too:

https://discourse.mozilla-community.org/t/moving-from-wiki-mozillaindia-org-to-wiki-mozilla-org/5327?u=asdofindia

Feel free to comment there or in email.

Akshay
https://mozillians.org/u/asdofindia

[Priyanka Nag]

Hey Akshay,

Thank you for initiating this discussion. Personally, reading through the
existing discourse discussion around the use of wiki, I think it makes
sense to move our content to wiki.mozilla.org instead of needing to
maintain a separate wiki.mozillaindia.org.

>From the perspective of documenting our activities, projects or
participation details....it doesn't make much of a difference whether we
have our content on wiki.mozilla.org or wiki.mozillaindia.org but I guess
from the perspective of needing to maintain a separate wiki instance,
having all content on wiki.mozilla.org makes more sense. I will put my
thoughts on the discourse discussion too.

I would leave the rest to the technical task-force to take a call on this
and the rest of the community to provide their suggestion on which one of
the two would they prefer :)

On Sun, Nov 15, 2015 at 6:43 AM, Akshay S Dinesh <asdof...@gmail.com>

--
Regards,
Priyanka Nag
Technical Writer, Red Hat

Website: priynag.in
Blog: priyankaivy.blogspot.in/

[Soumya Deb]

I'm cool with either.

Given the challenge with hosting maintenance, wmo would be better. Not sure
if that is a good long term plan though (also not sure why it's not).