Talk:Website:Planning For Transition

• Sounds great to me, Max. For moving support, development, and community to the wiki, do you propose that we keep the same tree and do a more or less literal port, or that we restructure the information in those documents as we move it to the wiki? Froodian 00:23, 25 July 2006 (PDT)

• Some concerns:
  • We need to keep Support (and at least part of Development & Community) unified in appearance with the "rest" of cb.o; that's one of the strong points of the current system (and the visuals are great)
  • We use a lot of sophisticated HTML+CSS in Support, some of which is not possible to replicate with MediaWiki easily, and some of which is not possible to replicate at all
  • We have a massive number of user accounts on the wiki, and we don't want *all* of them to be able to update Support or parts of Development; not having to go through cvs/Sam/Max to get pages updated will be great, but we also have problem contributors on the wiki who should not be able to update public-facing pages
  • Most of the content on the wiki currently doesn't need to be public-facing; it's a planning/discussion area (with the exceptions of some dev-related stuff we do want to make public-facing once we get it cleaned up/stabilized); we need some way to keep people from happening into the less-polished pages where we do real work/planning/etc.
• Questions:
  • How easy/hard does tracking the changes to the English site become for l10n teams in this new system?
  • What about staging before going live in the new system?

ATM, I really think I'd prefer moving a more limited set of content to the wiki than envisioned in this plan. --sardisson 05:27, 25 July 2006 (PDT)