What to do with the GNOME wiki
At this year’s GUADEC, I made a proposal: that the GNOME project should migrate its documentation from wiki.gnome.org to other locations, and then disable its wiki. This blog post describes the proposal in more detail, in order to receive feedback from the wider community.
For many years, the GNOME wiki (a MoinMoin instance) has been the main source of internal project documentation. It contains key project information, including guidance for newcomers, the release schedule, pages for the various teams, and much more.
Today, much of the content on the wiki is out of date, and a large portion of it isn’t actively updated. Many activities have moved from the wiki to other platforms (particularly Gitlab), leaving the related wiki content to rot. There have also been problems with spam, which have meant that edit rights have to be manually granted.
This situation inevitably causes issues, particularly for new contributors who are trying to learn how to get involved.