Hi - FWIW - I still have Confluence Admin rights left over from setting up AOO cwikis.
On Jan 18, 2015, at 8:45 AM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: > 1. Replacing the Confluence Wiki > > We know what wiki we would prefer (Wikimedia) but there are constraints on > supporting it that Corinthia is probably not equipped to satisfy. > > With regard to the MoinMoin wiki that is also supported at ASF, the problem > seems to be one of responsiveness. It has the advantage that one can prepare > text off line and one can rescue the wikiText form of content if ever needed. > > My concern for the current wiki is it appears to be totally captive and > anything committed to it lies in that embrace forever. (The export functions > are to limited forms and it is not clear they are a good way to produce > content while working off-line.) I'll note that on the Tools dropdown there is a view storage format that gives a window to grab html. There is also an Export to Word and PDF. These can be controlled with templates. There is also a Source Editor if you want to fiddle with the HTML directly. > > 2. Continuing to Use Confluence > > Confluence authoring is apparently required to be in a browser (or via the > REST API, which is too much of a reach). I would love to find out that is > not the case, but I have failed to determine what the plaintext form of text > submission is, and the help button is not useful in knowing otherwise. It > appears from the documentation that the canonical form of the content is XML > and can be used to backup and restore pages. You can put in html directly. > > I guess this means proceed at your own risk. > > 3. Cutting the Knot? > > So I started using the JIRA as a way to capture ideas and notes until there > is better understanding of Atlassian Confluence and the Gliffy Confluence > Plugin. This plugin looks cool - I will need to play with it to see if this is a great advantage and if the results are exportable. > As far as I am concerned, Confluence is a CMS, it is highly captive and it > is not like any wiki I have ever seen. > > I think we should tilt to using the web site more and the wiki less. I tend to agree. We could use the wiki for working documents that we are collaboratively editing. > > I do see that one can presumably use Confluence as a blog in some manner. > (Unfortunately they no longer except XML-RPC from blog authoring tools.) > That might be worth considering for simple content. I am comfortable with whatever workflow works for you. Regards, Dave > > - Dennis > > -----Original Message----- > From: jan i [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Sunday, January 18, 2015 00:31 > To: [email protected] > Subject: change if wiki ? > > Hi > > It seems the wiki discussion died out. Is somebody working on finding a > replacement ? > > If work is ongoing then that is fine, if not, I would say we have what we > have let us live with it until we graduate. > > My reason for asking is that I would like to correct the texts and make a > preliminary, which of course will be discussed and corrected. > > thoughts? > > jan i > > > -- > Sent from My iPad, sorry for any misspellings. >
