[ZWeb] wiki mirroring plan

[Jim Fulton]

Simon Michael wrote:
> Sure! I meant to be clearer. Practicing my citing/footnoting skills: 
> since it turns out that a zwiki upgrade on zope.org is not easy due to 
> zope version dependency[1], I'm now pursuing the suggestion of 
> Andrew[2], Lennart[3] and Michael[4] to harvest the wiki content off 
> zope.org and host it on a modern zwiki server as a step towards our goal.
> 
> I plan to start with the zope 3 developer wiki, the most active zope.org 
> wiki. I'll mirror it as-is on the joyful.com server, transferring the 
> wiki content by wget, export or whatever works, preserving things like 
> hierarchy, subscribers and so on as far as possible. I'll seek a 
> repeatable process, as I expect to do it more than once. Once the 
> mirrored wiki is in place, I'll add any anti-spam and usability 
> configuration that seems helpful. Then I'll announce it here. It will 
> have some preliminary url like zope3.zwiki.org. (I think we should 
> explore how bring the many zope wikis together under wiki.zope.org, but 
> later.)
> 
> One warning: the joyful.com zope server, which hosts zwiki.org, 
> zopewiki.org and some community wikis, is a hosted VPS with quite 
> limited RAM, so it won't be fast. But should be good enough for the moment.
> 
> This is my current plan, and I would love any and all help or 
> suggestions - join me on #zwiki or #zope-web irc channels if you can. 
> Any better plans also welcome.

Thanks very much for doing this.

Jim

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