[libreoffice-website] progress on the wiki setup

Hello,

for quite a while, we have been discussing a major reinstallation of our 
wiki. Since the currently used version is out of date, and MediaWiki 
migrated from SVN to git, I have finally started to work in a new setup.

During the QA weekend in Essen, I have checked out the recent MediaWiki 
version plus extensions from git, read our existing configuration plus 
some others I did in the past, as well as the notes I took from the 
current setup.

It is a rather tedious tasks, but in the end, we should have a 
state-of-the-art and recent setup, with a very well documented 
configuration, that finally should scale also for various languages.

We wanted to have that many months ago, but unfortunately, our volunteer 
never found time to work on it, so I put it on my todo.

My plan on how to proceed is as follows:

First, I will finalize the current setup under a testing domain.

Then, I will export the current users and articles to the new wiki, 
explicitly for testing and debugging. Everyone then can (and should!) 
see if the test wiki works as expected, and if all existing articles 
still work.

At the same time, we should start to customize the new theme. I think it 
will be easier to do so, rather than upgrading our existing custom theme 
to the new MediaWiki version.

Finally, we will see if there are any more customizations or extensions 
we need, and install those.

Eventually, we will define a migration day, set the existing wiki 
read-only and migrate things over to the new instance. All URLs, pages 
and users will be preserved.

It will still be branded as a TDF wiki. The planned LibreOffice 
multilingual wiki can be set up in a second step, based on the 
configuration of the new installation.

Sorry for the delay - we relied on a volunteer who didn't find time 
until today, that's what delayed it...

Florian

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