Migration Plan

This is a first draft detailed migration plan for moving Fancylopedia from Wikidot to Mediawiki.

Prep of Wikidot

• DONE Do a full backup of Wikidot. This will be the base version of Fancy to be ported.
  • Continue to track changes on Wikidot, as they will need to be replicated on Mediawiki. This will be done by hand by Mark.
• DONE Find and fix explicit redirects to missing pages, especially different versions of peoples' names where there's no page for the person.
• DONE Fix:
  • DONE Uncategorized files
  • DONE Wanted Pages [Let's drop this. It made a lot more sense when major pages were still missing.]
  • DONE Broken redirects
  • DONE Double redirects
  • DONE Images

Prep of MediaWiki site

• DONE We will use HTTP, not HTTPS
• Add specialized copyright notice. Creative Commons? [mlo]
• DONE Need to create logo [mlo]
• DONE Make sure robots.txt is set to allow indexing.
• Other standard wiki pages (About, etc.) [mlo]
• DONE Edit special404 page? GIVE UP ON THIS JRB
• DONE Document admin procedures in Admin

Moving users

• DONE Create a list of all users with Wikidot IDs and email addresses where known
• DONE Notify users a week or so in advance of the planned move [mlo]
  • Tell them what (if anything) we will do for them. (Is there anything?)
  • Note that we don't have email addresses for around a third of our users, but we do have them for all of the large users and most of the more recent ones.
  • Offer to manually add productive users with this
    • Send Wikidot messages to the users we don't have emails for
• DONE Edit the welcome page at Wikidot to announce the move [mlo]
  • Explain why the move
• DONE Write a MediaWiki for Wikidot users FAQ [mlo] Part of How to Edit Pages

Review of test move

• DONE Review the test move in light of the sed scripts
  • We're looking for conversion bugs

Pre-conversion Checklist

• DONE Do we know how to make fanacylopedia.org point to the new site?
• DONE Are there any Mediawiki features we want to turn off? Discussions? - Only files of the common ones. Discussions would be an extension.
• DONE Document process for vetting and adding users. How to Join

Post-conversion

• DONE Add text to every wikidot page advising of the move
• Remove access between fancyclopedia and johnbray/mlo users. Can't see how to do this now. Not important. jrb
• Remove existing users from Wikidot site
• Is there some way to detect users who follow links of the form fancyclopedia.wikidot.com/page?
• Consider making Wikidot site entirely private
• Do search for links of the form fancyclopedia.wikidot.com/page and, where appropriate, try to get them changed. Fanac search (notified)
• Add list of editors' real names
• Rewrite Python programs
  • FancyDownloader
  • HistoryDownloader
• Advertise to the world how Fancy3 is so much better
  • Categories with subsections
  • Auto-completion of entry names
  • 'Also involved'
  • Inconsistencies in layout/naming removed
  • Stronger, more popular platform. Now hosted free!
  • Better pages showing entry problems
  • Navigation between linked pages using powerful toolbars
  • Customised 'fannish search'
• DONE New backup routine - Use Installation wiki database command

Other issues

• DONE Figure out how to let people upload files
  • Decision: Send them to us
  • How do we publicize this? Add to How_to_Edit_Pages
  • Create Google Drive/Dropbox accounts
• DONE Decide on allowing use of wysisyg editor - Lets not until later
• DONE Deal with files from Wikidot which are not being moved. (Look at file sent by JB.) [mlo]