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# Retire the unofficial wiki and setup permanent redirects from nixos.wiki → wiki.nixos.org to aid with SEO and keep old links in blog posts and such functioning

What's stopping this? [[User:Joshbuker|Joshbuker]] ([[User talk:Joshbuker|talk]]) 21:49, 9 November 2025 (UTC)

What's stopping this?

See also: https://nixos.wiki/wiki/NixOS_Wiki_talk:History

[[User:Joshbuker|Joshbuker]] ([[User talk:Joshbuker|talk]]) 21:49, 9 November 2025 (UTC)

:After discussing with [https://nixos.wiki/wiki/User:Domtoro Domtoro] on the Unofficial User's Wiki, and doing some research on the subject, it appears this is likely because of the political purges that the NixOS team has done.

:tl;dr - Those with opposing political views (namely, US conservatives), and those working for companies in the military industrial complex, have been purged from various Nix related platforms. This has fractured the community and sown distrust, causing multiple forks of the ecosystem and surrounding infrastructure such as the wikis.

:I remain naively hopeful that the community can heal and come together, adopting a pluralistic approach. In that vein, I will be concentrating my documentation efforts on the Official NixOS Wiki, and maintain that the above solution to merging would be ideal. I will also be backing up my documentation efforts in my Obsidian notes, Blog, and GitHub repos as a contingency of getting purged myself for bringing up this sore topic and being critical of the purge. [[User:Joshbuker|Joshbuker]] ([[User talk:Joshbuker|talk]]) 18:32, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

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 # Retire the unofficial wiki and setup permanent redirects from nixos.wiki → wiki.nixos.org to aid with SEO and keep old links in blog posts and such functioning
-What's stopping this? [[User:Joshbuker|Joshbuker]] ([[User talk:Joshbuker|talk]]) 21:49, 9 November 2025 (UTC)
+What's stopping this?
+See also: https://nixos.wiki/wiki/NixOS_Wiki_talk:History
+[[User:Joshbuker|Joshbuker]] ([[User talk:Joshbuker|talk]]) 21:49, 9 November 2025 (UTC)
+:After discussing with [https://nixos.wiki/wiki/User:Domtoro Domtoro] on the Unofficial User's Wiki, and doing some research on the subject, it appears this is likely because of the political purges that the NixOS team has done.
+:tl;dr - Those with opposing political views (namely, US conservatives), and those working for companies in the military industrial complex, have been purged from various Nix related platforms. This has fractured the community and sown distrust, causing multiple forks of the ecosystem and surrounding infrastructure such as the wikis.
+:I remain naively hopeful that the community can heal and come together, adopting a pluralistic approach. In that vein, I will be concentrating my documentation efforts on the Official NixOS Wiki, and maintain that the above solution to merging would be ideal. I will also be backing up my documentation efforts in my Obsidian notes, Blog, and GitHub repos as a contingency of getting purged myself for bringing up this sore topic and being critical of the purge. [[User:Joshbuker|Joshbuker]] ([[User talk:Joshbuker|talk]]) 18:32, 2 December 2025 (UTC)