The sad state of git.wiki.kernel.org

[Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>]

Hello, all:

There is a very sad and unkempt wiki instance running on git.wiki.kernel.org.

It grew up in the age when Internet was young, bright-eyed, and "anyone can
edit it" approach was seen as a net positive thing. Then, as the armies of
bots and SEO consultants became increasingly difficult to fight off, the
instance ended up being locked down just to avoid having to spend all day
rolling back spam edits.

Today, most information found on the wiki is probably outdated and therefore
potentially harmful. I would like to solicit ideas what to do with this
resource.

# Should it be migrated to RTD-style docs?

We have stopped providing new Mediawiki instances at kernel.org quite some
time back, replacing the offering with Dokuwiki. Today, we don't spin up new
Dokuwiki instances either and everyone is steered towards readthedocs-style
documentation instead, which is a much more sane and manageable medium than
wikis, especially when it comes to technical docs (see
https://korg.docs.kernel.org/docs.html).

However, it's unclear if this is even needed for this wiki, considering the
existence of https://git-scm.com/doc.

# Should it be archived as a static site?

It's possible to turn git.wiki.kernel.org into a static site with a large
header on every page that it contains historical archival information, with a
link to https://git-scm.com/doc

# Should it be archived and put out of its misery?

The last option is to just archive the site and put it out of its increasingly
irrelevant existence.

Thoughts?

-Konstantin