[SciPy-Dev] Retiring wiki.scipy.org?

[Pauli Virtanen]

Hi,

I've been looking through the stuff that was on wiki.scipy.org,
and it appears it would be the time to retire it.

cf. http://pav.iki.fi/tmp/to-be-removed/localhost_8080/AllPages.html
for the actual material that is there.


I have the impression that:

(1) Most of the material that is useful has been moved elsewhere.

The download instructions, topical software, etc. are moved to 
scipy.org and/or numpy/scipy documentation.

The Numpy/Scipy tutorials that were there have mostly been subsumed
in the Numpy/Scipy documentation, or superceded by better resources
elsewhere eg. scipy-lectures.org. "Numpy for Matlab users" was
just added there too.

The Cookbook section was converted to IPython notebooks
some years ago:  https://github.com/pv/SciPy-CookBook
However, several of these are not so relevant today.

(2) The relevance of what's left is not so clear.

The rest of the content seems fairly miscellaneous. Recipes
from converting code from Numeric/numarray are probably
not highly useful any more.

If you know something valuable there not listed above, it would
be useful to point it out.

Excluding edits to front/download/etc pages that are nowadays
on github/scipy/scipy.org, the wiki was edited 95 times in the
last 5 years; and 2 times within the last 2 years.

(3) Would having a wiki be useful?

Based on the content there it's not clear if there is a need 
for a wiki nowadays --- people can just put stuff up on 
github/bitbucket/pypi and blog about it.

It might be useful to have a "cookbook" collection,
but a github repository with ipython notebooks,
or Scipy Central, sound like better solutions for today
than a wiki.


Thoughts?

In view of the above, I would remove links to wiki.scipy.org
regardless, https://github.com/scipy/scipy.org/pull/121

-- 
Pauli Virtanen