I have been considering the proposal of switching to use tiki-wiki as our wiki instead of media-wiki as we are using now. Here are the pros and cons, which I have graded according to how much they benefit/cause problems for us.
Pros graded from 1 small benefit to 10 large benefit.
- 2 - The gallery is broken in the old wiki, but there is one built into tikiwiki.
- 1 - The math tag was broken in the old wiki, so we have to redo it whatever we stay with media-wiki or switch to tiki-wiki.
- 2 - We will have the opportunity to clean-up the wiki, since we have to go through all pages anyway.
- 1 - The standard user will have a more coherent feeling as both wiki and the simple webpage are are the same place, but forum, downloads, bugtracker and irc are on different web-sites.
Cons graded from 1 small problem to 10 huge problem
- 10 - Has to go through all the pages of the old wiki to check that they are correct and re-upload pictures, this will probably be at least 100 hours of work :S, I used 2 hour to do 4 pages of the old wiki and I think we have more than 200 pages.
- 1 - We have to redo the syntax highlighting that we just set up in the old wiki.
- 1 - We will have to re-setup the embedding of YouTube videos again in the new wiki.
- 1 - We have to learn a new wiki/CMS system.
- 4 - Even though the wiki and the new website will be integrated we will still have; wiki, forum, irc, downloads and bugtracker all on seperate webpages that all look different, and there is not much to do about the downloads page, and a forum change is a NO-GO as we will loose allot of users due to inconvenience of having to log-in on yet another forum.
Any other pros and cons that I have missed? For now I would vote against moving the wiki to tiki-wiki, and just use tiki-wiki as a simple webpage for news and linking to the downloads, forums and the current wiki. What do you think?