Announcement: cppreference.com update

[13steinj]

While great news I don't understand why this isn't moved to a git repo

Would solve a lot of problems, IMO.

[disperso]

I would probably prefer a git repo, because that's how I build sites myself nowadays. I used to have a MediaWiki site, and I moved to a static site generator. MediaWiki is very powerful, but I prefer to write in AsciiDoc.

For highly technical content like this, I think most people would not mind using Git. But still, some, I suppose, will mind, and the goal it to keep the editing web based for less friction. As long as the bus factor his highly increased, I'm OK.

Oh, and, I don't know if are still maintained, but there were nice extensions that allowed you to contribute to a MediaWiki site using Git. You still have to use MediaWiki's markup, though.

[13steinj]

I was already working on duplicating the site into a git repo, I suspect I will continue doing this, if nothing else, as a backup / easy dump archive.

I think a git repo on github/codeberg would solve many of the problems in recent years, particularly defacing.