Decide what to do with the wiki

We currently have three wiki-like sites: on the hand the MediaWiki instance at f-droid.org/wiki, on the other hand the newly deployed documentation section at f-droid.org/docs and on the third hand the wiki category in the forum at forum.f-droid.org/c/wiki.

I think the consensus is that we needly an easily editable wiki beside the docs on f-droid.org. Keeping both the wiki category in the forum and the MediaWiki instance on f-droid.org alive is inefficient, now really working and causes confusion, as seen here, here, here, here and here.

From what I can see, we have two options:

Repair the MediaWiki instance and close down the wiki category in the forum

Pro

• Works fine without JavaScript
• No work for changing log output/app details

Con

• More work because maintaining both Discourse and MediaWiki
• Need to invest additional work into MediaWiki for repairing

Close the MediaWiki instance and only use the wiki category in the forum

Pro

• Less work for maintaining

Con

• Looks ugly and editing doesn't work without JavaScript
• Need to change log output/ app wiki details

CC @CiaranG @eighthave @pserwylo @licaon-kter @davidhedlund

I agree, there are to many wikis to remember.

The whole build process posts to the Mediawiki instance, and changing that will require a lot of work. Ideally, the build process would post markdown files to a static site, since things like buildlogs should never change.

Until then, I think its better to use the Mediawiki than the forum wikis, but I'm fine either way.

added forum requires-admin-work requires-website-changes website labels

added gitlab label

Each project on gitlab can also have a wiki, if people think that's a better place than Mediawiki or Discourse.

@eighthave

Ideally, the build process would post markdown files to a static site, since things like buildlogs should never change.

Yeah, I was thinking of this solution, too.

Until then, I think its better to use the Mediawiki than the forum wikis, but I'm fine either way.

Sure, we can use it, but did not the problem is that users can't register there (https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroid-website/issues/133)?

Each project on gitlab can also have a wiki, if people think that's a better place than Mediawiki or Discourse.

Sure, but I have this little goal in mind to host most of F-Droid's stuff on F-Droid's servers and therefore would prefer a solution on f-droid.org. But if I'm the only one, we can also use GitLab.com's wikis.