- From: Guus Schreiber <schreiber@cs.vu.nl>
- Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 13:46:24 +0200
- To: "Hausenblas, Michael" <michael.hausenblas@joanneum.at>
- CC: SWD WG <public-swd-wg@w3.org>
Michael, Thanks for the quick feedback. I will collect the comments and will sent these as one WG response to Olivier. Guus Hausenblas, Michael wrote: > Guus, > > My 2c: > > 1. Regarding security issues: It seems MediaWiki is now > catching up [1], hence this might not be an obstacle. > Anyway I'd like to know if the MediaWiki engine allows > for the same granularity w.r.t. ACL as MoinMoin does. > > 2. Regarding RDF-in-HTML: I'd like to be able to use my RDFa > - e.g. with a macro ala SafeHTML() - directly ... any hints? > > 3. How about single sign-on? For example in case I participate > in several, say, WGs, IGs, and XGs ... do I need to again create > accounts for each group (as in the current MoinMoin setup)? > > Cheers, > Michael > > [1] http://www.wikimatrix.org/compare/MediaWiki+MoinMoin > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > Michael Hausenblas, MSc. > Institute of Information Systems & Information Management > JOANNEUM RESEARCH Forschungsgesellschaft mbH > > http://www.joanneum.at/iis/ > ---------------------------------------------------------- > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: public-swd-wg-request@w3.org >> [mailto:public-swd-wg-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Guus Schreiber >> Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 11:41 AM >> To: SWD WG >> Subject: [Fwd: migrating our wiki platform to mediawiki] >> >> >> Any objections from this group on migrating the Wiki platform? >> Guus >> >> >> -------- Original Message -------- >> Subject: migrating our wiki platform to mediawiki >> Resent-Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 01:26:17 +0000 >> Resent-From: chairs@w3.org >> Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 10:26:27 +0900 >> From: olivier Thereaux <ot@w3.org> >> To: chairs@w3.org >> >> >> Dear W3C chairs, >> >> Through your staff contacts, and from some of you directly, the W3C >> systems team received a steady flow of requests to consider switching >> the engine running w3c wikis from moinmoin to the mediawiki engine, >> notably for its section editing capability, and for its semantic >> annotation plugin (semantic mediawiki). >> >> Mediawiki is the engine used to run the wikipedia site, and may be >> already familiar to many of you. >> >> >> After careful evaluation, we concluded that the migration would be >> possible but tricky. In particular: >> * we should be able to keep the same URI space >> * existing content in our wiki will be copied to the new engine >> * it may not be possible to migrate revision history for all the >> documents. >> We would look into saving the revision history somewhere in web >> space, for the record. >> * user accounts look difficult to migrate. In the worst case, all >> users would have to re-create accounts. In the "best" case all users >> may have to reinitialize their password >> * plug-ins may be migrated, if possible, on a case-by-case basis. >> "Themes" are unlikely to be migrated. >> >> >> Consequently, we would like to hear from you, if you are chairing a >> group currently using a wiki on the moinmoin platform, whether you >> would object to the migration to the mediawiki engine, given the >> potential issues listed above. >> >> If possible, please answer within the next week if you have any >> strong objection. >> >> We can not, yet, give any timeline for the migration, but will have a >> better idea of a time scale after receiving your answers. >> >> Thank you. >> For the W3C Systems Team, >> -- >> olivier >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Computer Science >> De Boelelaan 1081a, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands >> T: +31 20 598 7739/7718; F: +31 84 712 1446 >> Home page: http://www.cs.vu.nl/~guus/ >> >> -- Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Computer Science De Boelelaan 1081a, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands T: +31 20 598 7739/7718; F: +31 84 712 1446 Home page: http://www.cs.vu.nl/~guus/
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