[mb-style] Looking for a new [Documentation|Style] leader

[Chad Wilson]

> On Jul 30, 2008, at 9:32 AM, krazykiwi at gmail.com wrote:
>   
>> I'm thinking, making a plan of how to proceed will be a lot easier, if
>> we really understand what we've already got.
>>
>> If you think this is a good idea, I'm willing to take it on (and if I
>> take it on, I'm obviously willing to add other 'measurements' that
>> should be collected as it's being done.)
>>     
> Robert Kaye wrote:
>
> Go team Kiwi!
>   
My wiki-fu is also relatively weak, but I guess I'll learn :-) Let me 
collect some thoughts and do a bit of a wiki survey over the next while 
at the same time as fixing some content.

That FullSearch sure would be handy though!
> I think you two are on the right track for fixing things -- please  
> feel free to move ahead to streamline the process and fix up the docs.
>
> As far as the Moin 1.6 migration is concerned, Brian Freud and Panda  
> were the two biggest proponents of that work. However, both of them  
> have been swallowed up by life, so that project should be considered  
> dead/dormant for the time being.
>
> If MediaWiki can be used for transclusion, I'm all for the switch
Do we understand why Moin was chosen in the first place above MediaWiki? 
Do we have an idea of whether it will fix some of the transclusion 
display problems with Moin pages?

I am concerned that to do a migration while the data is in a bad state 
may detract from fixing the existing poor content, swallowing time with 
format and navigation fixes and template conversion and such. However, I 
realise that to fix the content and then migrate later would likely 
require rework/reformatting of the same pages. A judgement on which 
strategy makes most sense is I guess up to Rob.

Aurélien & others - did you have a view on how difficult the MediaWiki 
migration would be? Has anyone tried a test migration to gauge the 
magnitude of problems?

Chad / voice