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The old Windows 96 wiki was a custom wiki site created for use inside Windows 96. It was designed to be a simple knowledge base for common but important information. A lot of New Wiki articles are migrated from the Old Wiki without many modifications. | The old Windows 96 wiki was a custom wiki site created for use inside Windows 96. It was designed to be a simple knowledge base for common but important information. A lot of [[Main Page|New Wiki]] articles are migrated from the Old Wiki without many modifications. | ||
The repository for the old wiki can be found at https://git.sys36.net/windows-96/wiki96. | The repository for the old wiki can be found at https://git.sys36.net/windows-96/wiki96. | ||
Revision as of 05:34, 9 April 2022
The old Windows 96 wiki was a custom wiki site created for use inside Windows 96. It was designed to be a simple knowledge base for common but important information. A lot of New Wiki articles are migrated from the Old Wiki without many modifications.
The repository for the old wiki can be found at https://git.sys36.net/windows-96/wiki96.
Why the switch?
The wiki switched to MediaWiki as its base for several reasons:
- The old Wiki software was custom, which provided the advantage of designing only what we needed, but also gave us the disadvantage of having to implement everything ourselves. This took away from valuable Windows 96 core development time, since there were no custom features which provided any advantage over the current solutions offered (such as MediaWiki).
- Contributions were cumbersome and were made with Git pull requests, which was overly complicated for most users.
- Writing pages took more time since the physical directory/file structure had to be made for them each time a page was to be written.
- No moderation/administration system for tracking contributions.
- No proper sitemap due to wiki pages being generated inside the web app instead of using an URL route.
