Migrate Wiki to Gitlab? (was: Migrating custom qemu.org infrastructure to GitLab)

[Thomas Huth]

On 09/07/2020 12.22, Thomas Huth wrote:
> On 09/07/2020 12.16, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>>   Hi,
>>
>>>> 2. wiki.qemu.org is a MediaWiki instance. Account creation is a hurdle
>>>> to one-time or new contributors. It is unclear whether GitLab's wiki
>>>> is expressive enough for a lossless conversion of the existing QEMU
>>>> wiki. Any volunteers interested in evaluating the wiki migration would
>>>> be appreciated.
>>>
>>> Yeah, this is a potentially big piece of work. We didn't finish this
>>> in libvirt either. Looking at the libvirt mediawiki though, I decided
>>> not todo a straight export/import of all content.
>>
>> FYI: gitlab wiki is basically just a git repo with markdown pages +
>> renderer + gui editor.  You can also update the wiki using git clone +
>> edit + git commit + git push.
> 
> FWIW, seems like we could use the "pandoc" tool to convert Mediawiki
> (our old Wiki) to Markdown (Gitlab wiki). I've done a quick test and
> converted https://wiki.qemu.org/Contribute/MailingLists into
> https://gitlab.com/huth/qemu/-/wikis/Contribute/MailingLists with some
> few clicks.

Revisiting this topic after a couple of weeks, I think there is one more
thing to consider: If I've got that right, your account has to be a member
of the corresponding project to be able to edit a page in the Wiki in
gitlab. So unless we want to add lots of persons to the qemu-project as
members (which we likely do not really want, do we?), it's maybe better to
keep the separate MediaWiki instance with the separate user accounts, I guess?

 Thomas