> One thing I didn't like in the conversion scripts was that the default
> conversion will take the latest version of a page, revise it, and
> create a new revision. While useful for debugging the migration, I
> found it caused two problems:
> * The "abandoned pages" list was suddenly invalid, because every
> page had been updated!
> * Looking at the history for any given page, and viewing an
> older version didn't work, because the pre-1.6 syntax was
> preserved for the older revisions
> So when I did the migration, I updated the conversion script to update
> all revisions of a document, and *not* add a new revision of each
> page.
Yeah, it's a bit a matter of taste what mode one prefers for that.
I'll have a look at your patch.
> Other items we encountered:
> * You have the opportunity to rename pages that use underscores,
> and instead use spaces. We chose not to do the renaming,
> because that would have broken external links to wiki pages.
> If we do want to do page renaming, we'll do the renames, and
> create a redirect page in the old location....
That's no problem, moin has some builtin redirect magic for that case.
Try accessing a URL .../foo_bar when page "foo_bar" does not exist but
"foo bar" does.
> * Category pages broke, in that the implications of
> [[FullSearch()]] appear to be different, and there is now a
> "category:" variant that returns better results. Edits might
> be needed.
What exactly do you mean?
> * The syntax for "{{{" is now tighter, and some of our "blocks"
> needed minor edits.
Yes. The stuff directly after {{{ and before the newline must be a
parser spec (or nothing) now.
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