[Nix-dev] wiki and utf-8 characters

[Joachim Schiele]

On 03/22/2013 10:43 AM, "Marc Weber <marco-oweber at gmx.de> 
To:"@science.uu.nl wrote:
>> thing to maintain, especially with a database like mysql. the
>> wiki.nixos.org uses postgresql as backend.
> Why is a database of that size hard to maintain using MySQL?

i don't like mysql and php that's all. and since wiki.nixos.org is only 
used by about ~ppl we could also use other systems which for example do 
not have a database at all.

> MySQL is used that much that it should have no trouble coping with such
> a small wiki. Eventually some care has to be taken to set fields to
> utf-8 collation - but the media wiki should take care of that.
> In the end a wiki is a key value store and a search.

i maintain several mediawiki instances and i always had a lot of trouble 
with updating the mysql databases using the admin script coming with new 
mediawiki releases. and the utf8 stuff is one of such things i had to 
fix in the past.

>> going away from mediawiki is a good thing to say the least.
> Again - tell us why you feel that way :)

- if we would be using something with git and mdwn we could make an 
offline version of the wiki pretty easy and ship it with nixpkgs
- also offline editing would be a good thing IMHO

> I'm pretty sure mediawiki also knows how to cope with spam if you
> configure it correctly *and* keep it up to date.

yes, we could make registration via captcha or similar things. i didnt' 
have such problems in the past. new logins could also be moderated.

> Marc Weber
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