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: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) | |||
Latest revision as of 18:32, 2 December 2025
Why hasn't nixos.wiki been merged and redirected to wiki.nixos.org?
From what I can tell, the "Official NixOS Wiki" (wiki.nixos.org) is fully launched and considered ready for use.
Having similar looking, but slightly out of sync content on both wikis is confusing from an end-user perspective. Speaking personally, my getting into NixOS was significantly hindered by scattered and outdated documentation, to the point that I almost gave up completely multiple times before finally getting a working system.
Is migrating from the unofficial wiki (nixos.wiki) to the official NixOS wiki (wiki.nixos.org) a technical limitation in transferring content? A social issue of disagreement from the operators of both wikis, each wishing to maintain control of the wiki? Something else entirely?
From my perspective, the ideal solution would be to:
- Add whoever runs the unofficial wiki to the team managing the official wiki (if they aren't already on it)
- Lock the unofficial wiki to prevent new content from being added while transitioning to the Official Wiki
- Sync the content such that the Official wiki is the most up-to-date version
- 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?
See also: https://nixos.wiki/wiki/NixOS_Wiki_talk:History
Joshbuker (talk) 21:49, 9 November 2025 (UTC)
- After discussing with 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. Joshbuker (talk) 18:32, 2 December 2025 (UTC)