[ckan-dev] CKAN Wiki

Thu Feb 3 08:42:51 UTC 2011

On 2 February 2011 10:38, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:
> On 2 February 2011 08:13, Seb Bacon <seb.bacon at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 1 February 2011 21:14, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:
>>> On 1 February 2011 20:32, David Read <david.read at okfn.org> wrote:
>>>> Friedrich,
> [...]
>>>> * http://wiki.okfn.org/ckan - for users of the service and system
>>>
>>> **Deprecated**
>>
>> In favour of what?  Can we add a message to the top of the template on
>> this site saying so?
>>
>> I am yet to get to grips with all the sources of information I find --
>> for example, I am still confused about the trac instance on
>> KnowledgeForge (which appears to be for ticketing sysadmin tasks?)
>
> Right, <knowledgeforge.net/okfn/tasks> has *nothing* to do with CKAN
> other than the fact it is our central sysadmin trac ...
>
>> If we can reduce the number of sources I would be very happy.  If we
>> can have a single index page which is the place all other things are
>> linked to, I would also be very happy.
>
> This should be http://ckan.org/ (at least for dev side). The issue, if
> it is not apparent :), is that CKAN project has two distinct but
> related components:
>
> 1. The CKAN software (http://ckan.org/)
> 2. The CKAN 'network' based around http://ckan.net/ but with a whole
> set of other community instances
>
> This new wiki is aimed at second group. This is also why this isn't
> really a discussion for the dev list :)
>
>> I will gladly take this task on myself, however clearly there is a lot
>> of history I need to understand in order to do so...:)
>
> [...]
>
>>> <http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/ckan-discuss/2010-December/000777.html>
>>
>> So Olav et al were talking about a "Help" section on ckan.net; note
>> that "User Guide" on the home page of ckan.net is currently pointing
>> at the deprecated http://wiki.okfn.org/ckan.  So what's the correct
>> location for such documentation, now?
>
> It will be http://wiki.ckan.net/
>
> At some point we may integrate this more 'into' a CKAN instance (as
> Olav wanted) but that's obviously non-trivial so the simplest right
> now is a separate system. The feedback we got was that pointing people
> to http://wiki.okfn.org/ckan/ was confusing and having a separate
> dedicated location was better. And that's what happened.

OK.  So the following needs doing:

* add "deprecated" notice to template for wiki at http://wiki.okfn.org/ckan
* migrate content from there to http://wiki.ckan.net...?

Or is the old content out of date and someone is going to do it all
again?  Shall I do these things or is someone else on the case?

Seb