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== The Modern Comedy of the NixOS Wiki ==

== 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 dwindel as obsolete information accumulated.

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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 the nixos-user wiki into the more powerful platform.

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

[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.

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+== The Modern Comedy of the NixOS Wiki ==
-== 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 dwindel as obsolete information accumulated.
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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 the nixos-user wiki into the more powerful platform.
-With the migration of the old mediawiki to the new mediawiki the project went a full circle.
+[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.
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