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h1. MediawikiMigration

Redmine's wiki uses Textile markup, while MediaWiki uses the Markdown markup language. It looks some redmine has recently been working to make it easier to transition from textile to markdown: https://www.redmine.org/issues/32424 https://www.redmine.org/plugins/redmine_reformat

TODO:

* Find links to projects that can help migrate the wiki content and compare them:

** Look if it's possible to keep the history to make sure that smaller contributors don't get forgetten

** Contact the Archive team to backup the redmins wiki

** Make sure it gets archived completely on archive.org/web

** Make sure it gets archived in files that can be restored (but without non public information like password hashes, etc)

h2. Rationale

Pros:

* Can be interfaced with Wikidata.

* The syntax is easy enough to use by people that don't know how to program, many people are used to it, and at the same time it's well documented.

* The table syntax of redmine textile format is too complicated for several key contributors like dllud.

* The main functionality, including the preview work completely without JavaScript. GNUtoo had huge issues with the redmine preview not working without javascript, leading to many bad editions that are fixed in subsequent editions that are fixed in subsequent editions...

* Other projects like Libreplanet, and Parabola uses mediawiki

* Can be used offline thanks to projects like Kiwix

* Can easily be backuped by external projects like thearchiveteam

Cons:

* We need to migrate, if possible in a way that preserves history

* We loose the integration with redmine #<bug number> will have to