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Wiki (Bookstack)

Bookstack is a user friendly Wiki software which the NYC Mesh Wiki is built on.

This wiki is deployed via helm and github actions from nycmeshnet/wiki-infra

MVP Wiki Launch Features

Before the Wiki can be more broadly used (and and possibly replace docs.nycmesh.net) we must add some key features:

Required

  • Simple introduction
    • Ensure everything a new volunteer/stakeholder would benefit from seeing is linked in the introduction book.
      • Hardware page to show extent of documentation and another "book".
  • Support for old users
    • Old to new mapping 
      • 1. sitemap mapping of old page to new?
      • 2. update all docs pages with a link to the wiki equivalent.
    • Page redirects on docs
  • Full duplicate of docs.nycmesh.net content - to avoid information fragmentation, we should migrate a full copy of all existing docs content
  • Merge any dupe Docs and Wiki pages (ex. hubs?)
  • Replace high level links to docs (nycmesh.net header "Docs" replaced with "Wiki")

Nice to have

  • Mesh hosting - Currently on AWS, but we could move to Mesh hosting fairly easily.
  • Mesh LAN based user creation - Ideally a member on the mesh should be allowed to create an editor account without involving admins.
  • This is possible with a custom theme but needs more development.  A disabled in-development theme file is included in the themes directory.