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I went to see what the problems were for myself. While I wouldn't run my own sure that way, I was expecting something more serious to justify a migration. I think having the primary wiki within the project is a good idea generally. It does feel like the problems below are just minor annoyances though.

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Why is there a new wiki? What is with nixos.wiki?

The old wiki at nixos.wiki has several problems:

    Many components (mediawiki, php, icu) are severely outdated.
        MediaWiki 1.29 (EOL 2018), now 1.35 (EOL 2023-12)
        PHP 7.3.33 (EOL 2021-12)
        ICU 64.2
    Cloudflare DDOS protection makes wiki edits fail sometimes.
    There is no WYSIWYG editor.
    The wiki infrastructure, which was supposed to be made public after launch, never ended-up being made public


  Many components (mediawiki, php, icu) are severely outdated.

  The wiki infrastructure, which was supposed to be made public after launch, never ended-up being made public
I suspect both of these are a bigger deal to the Nix community than perhaps to the average group.




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