[Nix-dev] NixOS-Wiki alternative. Was: What license does the content of the nixos wiki and the manuals have?

[Jookia]

On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 03:49:08PM +0200, Eelco Dolstra wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 25/09/15 14:24, Matthias Beyer wrote:
> 
> > So, an idea came up - why not using static pages for all of this? If you
> > want to do contributions via git, you can use github. If one want to
> > host it, one can use github pages and build it with travis-ci. These
> > things are documented and they _work_ for other people, so why not for
> > a wiki?
> > 
> > To be able to build pages with travis-ci and github pages, one needs a
> > static site compiler. 
> 
> This is essentially how the NixOS homepage is built, i.e., a git repository +
> Template Toolkit + a makefile. And of course you can make pull requests on
> GitHub. But I wouldn't call that a wiki, since you can't easily edit it from a
> browser, or make it world-writable. But if we do want go that way, another
> possibility is GitHub Pages + Jekyll.
> 
> The main advantage of using a GitHub wiki is that we then don't have to manage
> user accounts and deal with spammers. But as you say, the downside is that we
> can't customize much.

A huge disadvantage of using github tools are that they're proprietary, so
people using free systems can't contribute (easily.) What about ikiwiki?