We have a styled and integrated wiki under development, but it’s on the same platform as the current wiki—we’ll pull in all content from the current wiki when we finish. Full support for ciphergoth’s sentiments from the devs—go forth and enwiki the good stuff.
We may look into it later, but we’re not currently looking to merge user accounts. LW is Python, MediaWiki is PHP; the database formats are different; we don’t generally love working in PHP; etc.
Both will continue to be open source projects (of course), so contributions will be welcome :).
The wiki is entirely ready to go; all it needs is more contributions.
We have a styled and integrated wiki under development, but it’s on the same platform as the current wiki—we’ll pull in all content from the current wiki when we finish. Full support for ciphergoth’s sentiments from the devs—go forth and enwiki the good stuff.
Will it cause you any trouble that not all users have the same username on the wiki as they do here?
We may look into it later, but we’re not currently looking to merge user accounts. LW is Python, MediaWiki is PHP; the database formats are different; we don’t generally love working in PHP; etc.
Both will continue to be open source projects (of course), so contributions will be welcome :).
I think MediaWiki has some provision for supporting SSO, but yeah, I don’t fancy hacking on it myself and I imagine you have better things to do too!
It also needs a long-term hosting, so that you can safely link to it, and not worry that the target URL will go away or get abandoned.
Another solution would be to support wikilinking in the markup language; that way if the wiki moves the links can move with it.
This is too hard to enforce outside the wiki, where anyone can fix failures to conform.
The greater convenience of the wiki markup might be enough, though?