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~~== The Modern Comedy of the NixOS Wiki ==~~

Sometime around 2010-2011, members of the Nix community decided to [https://web.archive.org/web/20111006031605/http://nixos.org/wiki/Main_Page set up a wiki]. Everything went well until (supposedly) people lost interest in maintaining the Wiki, and the overall quality of the Wiki began to dwindle as obsolete information accumulated.

Sometime around 2010-2011, members of the Nix community decided to [https://web.archive.org/web/20111006031605/http://nixos.org/wiki/Main_Page set up a wiki]. Everything went well until (supposedly) people lost interest in maintaining the Wiki, and the overall quality of the Wiki began to ~~dwindel~~ as obsolete information accumulated.

On the 14th of november 2015 Rok Garbas gave the infamous talk [https://media.ccc.de/v/nixcon2015-3-MakeNixfriendlierforBeginners#video&t=1365 "Make Nix Friendlier for Beginners"] which to future generations became known as the "Kill the Wiki" talk. This rekindled the discussion about the decaying state of the official Wiki. An [https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/22599 epic mailing-list discussion] started 4 days later and some core developers seemed to agree that the Nix* manuals are a better place to put documentation, while others didn't.

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To fill the void in the community contributor Jörg Thalheim (Mic92) started the [https://github.com/nixos-users/wiki/wiki nixos-users wiki] on April 24th. Since Nixpkgs is hosted on GitHub, he opted to use the GitHub native wiki, allowing everybody who needed access to directly edit the wiki. This instance is known as the "first unofficial" wiki. Only a very small number of selected wiki articles were transferred from the original wiki.

Not long after, user Tristan Helmich (fadenb) started his own approach to resurrect the wiki by setting up a MediaWiki on his own at [https://nixos.wiki], mostly out of frustration of the bad UX of the github wiki (no table of contents, no search, etc ). The Wiki went online somewhere before May 2017 "on a lazy day at work" but he forgot to tell anybody about it. The only documented announcement is the twitter message [https://twitter.com/fadenb/status/880045303403040768 "You can now log into https://nixos.wiki with your github account"] with 8 likes and no retweets. The Wiki now has captchas enabled.

Not long after, user Tristan Helmich (fadenb) started his own approach to resurrect the wiki by setting up a MediaWiki on his own at [https://nixos.wiki], mostly out of frustration of the bad UX of the github wiki (no table of contents, no search, etc.). The Wiki went online somewhere before May 2017 "on a lazy day at work" but he forgot to tell anybody about it. The only documented announcement is the twitter message [https://twitter.com/fadenb/status/880045303403040768 "You can now log into https://nixos.wiki with your github account"] with 8 likes and no retweets. The Wiki now has captchas enabled.

[https://twitter.com/makefoo/status/899558842467569664 Discovering that project] on the 21st of August 2017, user Felix Richter (makefu) decided to just transfer all articles written for [https://github.com/nixos-users/wiki the wiki as nixos-users] into the more powerful platform.

[https://twitter.com/makefoo/status/899558842467569664 Discovering that project] on the 21st of August 2017, user Felix Richter (makefu) decided to just transfer all articles written for [https://github.com/nixos-users/wiki the wiki as nixos-users] into the more powerful platform. With the migration of the old MediaWiki to the new MediaWiki the project went a full circle.

~~With the migration of the old MediaWiki~~ to the ~~new MediaWiki the project went a full circle~~.

In January 2024, [https://github.com/NixOS/foundation/issues/113 an initiative] to revive an official wiki instance was undertaken and after a brief discussion culminated in the wiki instance you're reading this on.

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[[Category:Pedias]]

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-== The Modern Comedy of the NixOS Wiki ==
+Sometime around 2010-2011, members of the Nix community decided to [https://web.archive.org/web/20111006031605/http://nixos.org/wiki/Main_Page set up a wiki]. Everything went well until (supposedly) people lost interest in maintaining the Wiki, and the overall quality of the Wiki began to dwindle as obsolete information accumulated.
-Sometime around 2010-2011, members of the Nix community decided to [https://web.archive.org/web/20111006031605/http://nixos.org/wiki/Main_Page set up a wiki]. Everything went well until (supposedly) people lost interest in maintaining the Wiki, and the overall quality of the Wiki began to dwindel as obsolete information accumulated.
 On the 14th of november 2015 Rok Garbas gave the infamous talk [https://media.ccc.de/v/nixcon2015-3-MakeNixfriendlierforBeginners#video&t=1365 "Make Nix Friendlier for Beginners"] which to future generations became known as the "Kill the Wiki" talk. This rekindled the discussion about the decaying state of the official Wiki. An [https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/22599 epic mailing-list discussion] started 4 days later and some core developers seemed to agree that the Nix* manuals are a better place to put documentation, while others didn't.
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 To fill the void in the community contributor Jörg Thalheim (Mic92) started the [https://github.com/nixos-users/wiki/wiki nixos-users wiki] on April 24th. Since Nixpkgs is hosted on GitHub, he opted to use the GitHub native wiki, allowing everybody who needed access to directly edit the wiki. This instance is known as the "first unofficial" wiki. Only a very small number of selected wiki articles were transferred from the original wiki.
-Not long after, user Tristan Helmich (fadenb) started his own approach to resurrect the wiki by setting up a MediaWiki on his own at [https://nixos.wiki], mostly out of frustration of the bad UX of the github wiki (no table of contents, no search, etc ). The Wiki went online somewhere before May 2017 "on a lazy day at work" but he forgot to tell anybody  about it. The only documented announcement is the twitter message [https://twitter.com/fadenb/status/880045303403040768 "You can now log into https://nixos.wiki with your github account"] with 8 likes and no retweets. The Wiki now has captchas enabled.
+Not long after, user Tristan Helmich (fadenb) started his own approach to resurrect the wiki by setting up a MediaWiki on his own at [https://nixos.wiki], mostly out of frustration of the bad UX of the github wiki (no table of contents, no search, etc.). The Wiki went online somewhere before May 2017 "on a lazy day at work" but he forgot to tell anybody  about it. The only documented announcement is the twitter message [https://twitter.com/fadenb/status/880045303403040768 "You can now log into https://nixos.wiki with your github account"] with 8 likes and no retweets. The Wiki now has captchas enabled.
-[https://twitter.com/makefoo/status/899558842467569664 Discovering that project] on the 21st of August 2017, user Felix Richter (makefu) decided to just transfer all articles written for [https://github.com/nixos-users/wiki the wiki as nixos-users] into the more powerful platform.
+[https://twitter.com/makefoo/status/899558842467569664 Discovering that project] on the 21st of August 2017, user Felix Richter (makefu) decided to just transfer all articles written for [https://github.com/nixos-users/wiki the wiki as nixos-users] into the more powerful platform. With the migration of the old MediaWiki to the new MediaWiki the project went a full circle.
-With the migration of the old MediaWiki to the new MediaWiki the project went a full circle.
+In January 2024, [https://github.com/NixOS/foundation/issues/113 an initiative] to revive an official wiki instance was undertaken and after a brief discussion culminated in the wiki instance you're reading this on.
-[[Category:Discussion]]
+[[Category:Pedias]]