[developers] [delph-in] migration of collaboration infrastructure

[Alexandre Rademaker]

Hi,

Tomorrow, at 3PM (Brazil, 10AM Pacific Time) we (Olga and me) will have a meeting to discuss alternatives to the current DELPHI-IN wiki running in a MoinMoin instance. Anyone here is welcome to the discussion, our first step is to identify the requirements and alternatives. I am also working to try a temporary solution, that is, moving the MoinMoin to a new machine.

Here is the link for the meeting https://ibm.webex.com/meet/alexrad

Best,
Alexandre


> On 28 Dec 2020, at 16:04, Stephan Oepen <oe at ifi.uio.no> wrote:
> 
> dear colleagues,
> 
>> over the next two weeks, services hosted in the following domains will be migrated to a new system at the university of oslo:
>> 
>> + delph-in.net
> 
> [...]
> 
> the bulk of the service migration is now complete, and there is both
> good news and bad news.  i would like to invite everyone to take a
> critical look and let me know if you find anything missing (please
> recall that the WeSearch semantic query interface has been
> discontinued).
> 
> in particular, moving the DELPH-IN wiki turned out more involved than
> anticipated.  for the time being, the wiki is read-only, and (truth be
> told) i am not sure i will be able to re-enable edit functionality.
> 
> on the technical side (owing to a dependency on Python 2.x), we had to
> convert from running in the WSGI framework to a more traditional CGI
> set-up, which means that URLs in the new wiki now require an extra
> path component, e.g.
> 
> http://moin.delph-in.net/FrontPage --> http://moin.delph-in.net/wiki/FrontPage
> 
> old-style URLs will be automatically rewritten by the server, so in
> principle the above should not cause any broken links.  content-wise,
> as part of the migration, we holiday-cleaned some 12,538 wiki accounts
> and 33,481 spam pages.  this was done heuristically, but i hope no
> genuine content has been lost.
> 
> to regain a fully functional DELPH-IN wiki, i would like to urgently
> ask for help: i believe we should either find another site to host and
> maintain a fresh MoinMoin instance (preferably with WSGI support) or
> migrate the wiki content (and, ideally, user accounts and revision
> history) into a more modern platform.  regarding the latter, i imagine
> either MediaWiki or GitHub wikis would be strong candidates (and could
> presumably be hosted on the public M$ GitHub service).
> 
> now that we are down to a manageable number of pages and users in the
> DELPH-IN MoinMoin instance, i believe the migration task should not be
> insurmountable.  i will be happy to provide an archive of all content
> and revision history.  i sincerely hope we can find volunteers in the
> DELPH-IN community to pick up the ball and work toward a modern and
> sustainable DELPH-IN wiki?
> 
> best wishes, oe