[Haskell-cafe] Hawiki articles

[Donald Bruce Stewart]

lemming:
> 
> On Mon, 3 Sep 2007, Derek Elkins wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 14:57 +0200, Henning Thielemann wrote:
> > > In the current Haskell Wiki (haskell.org/haskellwiki) I found references
> > > to articles of the old Hawiki (haskell.org/hawiki), like OnceAndOnlyOnce
> > > and SeparationOfConcerns. Are the files still available somewhere?
> >
> > HaWiki was taken down for the not unreasonable reason that, since it is
> > no longer being updated, there is a decent chunk of out-dated and thus
> > misleading information on it.  Unfortunately there is a ridiculously
> > large amount extremely good information on it that never got ported and
> > frankly never is going to be ported (for good and bad reasons).
> 
> ... and there was unfortunately no support in porting the stuff. I guess
> some simple program (perl -p -e 's/{{{/<hask>/g' :-) could have simplified
> a lot. Its however more difficult for me to do this via the web interface,
> than for the people who have access to the bare files.

The problem was the licensing. Only pages whose authors were known, and
who gave permission to license the work freely, were ported. And only
some of those pages actually got moved.

> > Clearly making HaWiki live again would be a bad idea; haskellwiki is
> > being used now for a reason.  However, having it up in "stasis" as it
> > was with some prominent indication on each page that it is out of
> > date/no longer updated/obsolete or whichever term suits you fancy should
> > effectively solve the problem.  It should be possible and probably even
> > desirable to "distill" the pages into static HTML documents so that
> > MoinMoin would not be needed, if that is an issue.
> 
> Since it is easier to port Wiki code than HTML code, I propose copying all
> hawiki pages as they are to haskellwiki in a directory like DEPRECATED.
> >From there people can go on moving pages into the space of current pages.
> This would also allow to track where pages came from Hawiki.

We can't do that, due to the licensing issues. Details here:

    http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/HaWiki_migration

-- Don