New wiki deployment on Tuesday!

On Tuesday, May 27th, Fedora will be moving to MediaWiki at long last! A predeployment is up here. There will be no such thing anymore as a wikiname, EditGroup, or anything of the sort in Fedora, and the signup process for an FAS account has already been streamlined to a click-through CLA instead of GPG signatures and the like. A few people deserve special mention in this effort:

• Paul Frields, Our fearless leader. Under his leadership, the GPG signing requirement of the CLA was lifted. This was a major barrier to entry to Fedora, that is now gone.
• Mike McGrath, team lead of the Infrastructure project - Mike has done a great job of nurturing the actual scripts that are doing the transition from Moin to MediaWiki, converting the markup and such.
• Máirín Duffy - She did a lot of the CSS and stylistic work that went into the new template
• Ian Weller - Ian did a ton of work on the template, problems with conversions (there were a ton of these). Without his wealth of MediaWiki knowledge, this would not be the success that we anticipate it to be. Ian has also written several MediaWiki plugins just for this deployment!
• Ricky Zhou - Ricky has done a lot of great work on FAS2 (the replacement to the old Fedora Account System). His latest work directly related to this deployment was the FAS OpenID provider, which he's putting the finishing touches on as I type this :). This will be in beta for this deployment, eventually it will be required, however.

There were also a lot of other people involved in this. I really think that this was a great example of how a cross-functional group can come together and make something enormous happen in a relatively small period of time - we've only been working on this in earnest for about 2 months.

Great work everyone! (and after Tuesday, we'll just be sitting back on the beach drinking our Mai-Tais - NOT! :) )