Wiki is being hammered by spammers

[Kyle Auble]

So it sounds like a lot of people are ready to make a go at this. 
Setting up the servers / VMs to host it is really out of my league, but 
there are a few points about the wiki that might be useful to keep in mind.

The main one (and a bit of an obstacle) is that I don't think there's a 
simple way to get backups through the wiki itself. There's a "package" 
action available on a page-by-page basis, but I think it only takes one 
or a few page-names at a time (that you have to manually enter). I can't 
vouch for how much drain it puts on the server and what it spits out 
either. Honestly, if you can't get in touch with Dimi about a tarball of 
everything, your best bet may be to sick a crawler on the wiki, then run 
the actual pages through something like Beautiful Soup.

If you do manage to get an archive of the entire wiki, logs and all, you 
might find the scripts I worked on a few years back helpful, more as a 
testing & knowledge record of how MoinMoin actually stores everything. 
I'd say they were mostly finished (except maybe bcrypting user files) 
and ~85% tested; so if you do have a direct archive of the actual wiki 
and want to try running them, just be sure to keep a backup copy of all 
the wiki data in case they act up:
https://bitbucket.org/kauble/moin-admin

One last but less immediate point is that while I don't know the 
details, I think MediaWiki has actually become much more flexible about 
theming over the past several years. The Python components of the 
current wiki theme are pretty MoinMoin-specific, but I tried to make the 
CSS files as simple and similar to the rest of WineHQ as possible. You 
can probably reuse those and any images or icons for MediaWiki without 
too much work:
https://bitbucket.org/kauble/wine-wiki-migration

Kyle