Yihui and Gábor, I agree with you, and I also think that using Travis CI would be very nice. However, there are hundreds of page on the R wiki to migrate… and syntax is a little bit different than Markdown.
Of course, a solution would be to start again from scratch, but I think that those who have contributed to the R Wiki deserve more respect. Any suggestion, or idea about this? Best, Philippe On 08 Sep 2014, at 23:12, Gábor Csárdi <csardi.ga...@gmail.com> wrote: > I second this suggestion. > > One possible complication I see is that if you would like to run the R > code (to display its output for example), then AFAIK you cannot simply > use Jekyll on Github's side, but would need some additional > infrastructure. > > It might be possible to use Travis (or some other) CI for it, and > avoid installing additional software and/or servers, but anyway, this > requires some care and effort. > > If you don't want to run the code, then it is very easy, apart from > the (one-time) migration cost. > > Best, > Gabor > > On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 4:15 PM, Yihui Xie <x...@yihui.name> wrote: >> I want to make a humble suggestion: migrate the wiki to Github, and >> build the pages using Jekyll+Markdown. That way, I think it will >> attract more volunteers. Simply look how many pull requests that >> Hadley has got for his up-coming book hosted on Github >> (http://adv-r.had.co.nz): https://github.com/hadley/adv-r/pulls I have >> had the experience of maintaining web servers and different wiki/CMS >> systems (including Dokuwiki -- I have even written a PHP plugin for >> it), and eventually I found I could not afford the time on the job of >> a system admin. Now I never do that again, and I just focus on >> maintaining the content. Let the professionals do the hosting and >> compilation service, and my life has become so much better (no more >> worries about security holes and attacks). >> >> Regards, >> Yihui >> -- >> Yihui Xie <xieyi...@gmail.com> >> Web: http://yihui.name >> >> >> On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 12:10 PM, Philippe GROSJEAN >> <philippe.grosj...@umons.ac.be> wrote: >>> Uwe and all, >>> >>> I have problems with the R wiki engine. It seems that there is a systematic >>> attack of the R wiki site that produces an overconsumption of the server's >>> CPU, and consequently, my provider did shutdown the whole SciViews.org web >>> site. >>> >>> Now, it is a bad time for me to work on this (very busy with exams + Master >>> and PhD theses). I am currently looking for an expert in CMS to look at the >>> problem. I don't know when I will be able to solve this and reopen the R >>> Wiki. >>> >>> Best, >>> >>> Philippe >>> ..............................................<°}))><........ >>> ) ) ) ) ) >>> ( ( ( ( ( Prof. Philippe Grosjean >>> ) ) ) ) ) >>> ( ( ( ( ( Numerical Ecology of Aquatic Systems >>> ) ) ) ) ) Mons University, Belgium >>> ( ( ( ( ( >>> .............................................................. >>> >>> On 06 Sep 2014, at 17:28, Uwe Ligges <lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Rather than asking here, I'd ask Philippe Grosjean directly, hence CCIng. >>>> >>>> Best, >>>> Uwe Ligges >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On 06.09.2014 01:17, André Z. D. A. wrote: >>>>> This does not answer you, but if you are looking for something that >>>>> existed on that wiki, it may help: >>>>> >>>>> https://web.archive.org/web/20140112055032/http://rwiki.sciviews.org/ >>>>> doku.php >>>>> >>>>> And that wiki doesn't look like it had a lot of activity: >>>>> https://web.archive.org/web/20140301000000*/http://rwiki.sciviews.org/ >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-devel@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
