Re: ESW Wiki (was Re: ISSUE-76: Need feedback on splitting Microdata into separate specification)

Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>, 2009-12-02 13:35 -0800:

>  On Dec 2, 2009, at 1:31 PM, Laura Carlson wrote:
> 
> > Hi Maciej, Tab and Mike,
> >
> > Anyone listed on the ESWEditorsGroup page [1] can add people as
> > Editors. I've added you Tab.
> >
> > Maciej and Mike, I have a question regarding the ESW Wiki.
> >
> > It has been said that the ESW Wiki is no longer supported. The A11y
> > task force has gotten a new Wiki because of that. [2]
> >
> > Should this working group be concerned about losing our content that
> > is housed in ESW? Are there plans to have a new Wiki instance for the
> > HTML WG?
> 
>  Mike, can you look into the status of the ESW wiki,

The status is that the W3C does not plan to shut down the ESW
Wiki, but is basically encouraging groups to use our MediaWiki
system for new content instead of putting it into the ESW Wiki.
Part of the reason being that we seem to get more complaints about
problems in the MoinMoin-based backend that it uses, and less
complaints about problems with the MediaWiki system.

>  and determine what it would take to set up our own wiki?

I will get a MediaWiki instance set up for the HTML WG. Once we do
have that, I suggest we just keep the existing pages at the ESW
Wiki, and migrate them over as needed, but use the MediaWiki for
any new pages.

  --Mike

-- 
Michael(tm) Smith
http://people.w3.org/mike/

Received on Thursday, 3 December 2009 13:43:50 UTC