NixOS Wiki talk:History

Needs to be updated to reflect situation as of 2024-04-01 when the "official NixOS wiki" declared itself launched. I already updated the Main_Page. --Domtoro (talk) 10:22, 2 April 2024 (UTC)

Since the 2024-04-01 official wiki revival, I have noticed that the divergences between "NixOS_Wiki:History" pages on both wikis are particularly interesting: While individual wiki pages may diverge because people innocuously update one wiki and not the other, the history pages seem to be diverging based on either divergent perceptions or information. Sshine (talk) 14:29, 2 November 2024 (UTC)

Why hasn't nixos.wiki been merged and redirected to wiki.nixos.org?

From what I can tell, the "Official NixOS Wiki" (wiki.nixos.org) is fully launched and considered ready for use.

Having similar looking, but slightly out of sync content on both wikis is confusing from an end-user perspective. Speaking personally, my getting into NixOS was significantly hindered by scattered and outdated documentation, to the point that I almost gave up completely multiple times before finally getting a working system.

Is migrating from the unofficial wiki (nixos.wiki) to the official NixOS wiki (wiki.nixos.org) a technical limitation in transferring content? A social issue of disagreement from the operators of both wikis, each wishing to maintain control of the wiki? Something else entirely?

From my perspective, the ideal solution would be to:

1. Add whoever runs the unofficial wiki to the team managing the official wiki (if they aren't already on it)
2. Lock the unofficial wiki to prevent new content from being added while transitioning to the Official Wiki
3. Sync the content such that the Official wiki is the most up-to-date version
4. Retire the unofficial wiki and setup permanent redirects from nixos.wiki → wiki.nixos.org to aid with SEO and keep old links in blog posts and such functioning

What's stopping this?

See also: wiki.nixos.org/wiki/NixOS_Wiki_talk:History

November 9, 2025 - Joshbuker (talk)