On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 2:10 AM, James Cameron <[email protected]> wrote:
> I don't know. I don't have administrator rights on the Wiki. Hope > Walter or someone else can answer. Meanwhile, I've been replacing > migrated pages with links to the new location, so that old links don't > break. > This method should be preferred. It is easy and effective, doesn't destroy history, and points toward where you want people to look. > > On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 11:31:49AM +0530, Rudra Sadhu wrote: > > thanks James for the assessment. > > > > I've successfully migrated a few of the pages from [1]https:// > > wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities to GitHub > > Find the pull request at [2]https://github.com/ > godiard/help-activity/pull/38 > > > > and now, the wiki-pages needs to be deprecated. > > As to delete a page from the wiki, an user needs 'administrators' rights, > > > > thus, > > Some possible ways to delete the pages are: > > 1. create a bot account with restricted permissions which can delete > pages(my > > preferred choice) > > 2. for a temporary period grant delete rights to me > > 3. someone trusted deletes the pages > > 4. something else and better (please suggest) > > > > It may not be convenient to delete the pages manually as there will be > > thousands of those(including extra images/files attached to the pages) > for the > > 345 pages to be migrated > > All of the deletion is preferred to be done by a script (which > uses [3]https:// > > www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Delete), under close supervision > > Do not worry, no damage(if at all) will be permanent; since it is > possible to > > always recover pages deleted by an user with 'administrators' rights. > Read [4] > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Deletion_and_undeletion > > > > Please recommend the desired course of action > > > > thanks, > > Rudra Sadhu > > > > On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 10:41 AM, James Cameron <[5][email protected]> > wrote: > > > > Thanks, I've reviewed your updated proposal. > > > > My assessment of project impact; > > > > Originally documentation was separate because we had non-coding > > developers and tool chains that varied by type of developer. Now we > > use GitHub the tool chains are combined. > > > > With the project as described, documentation will be concentrated in > > the source code repository for an activity, reducing ongoing > > maintenance. > > > > We have less active Wiki contributors than we ever did, and in the > > current threat environment a Wiki requires significant monitoring and > > administration; we recently lost some system administrators and > gained > > new ones; using GitHub allows us to outsource system administration. > > > > On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 08:06:49PM +0530, Rudra Sadhu wrote: > > > Thanks James, Carlos, Gonzalo and everyone for the insights > > > > > > Your inputs helped a lot, and I've updated my proposal accordingly. > > > A lot of important stuff was added such as the working the Help > Activity, > > > keeping check on the activity bundle sizes and completing the > > miscellaneous > > > section. > > > > > > The proposal is available at [1][6]https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/ > > Summer_of_Code/ > > > 2018/attentive_migration_of_wiki_activity_pages_to_git > > > I've also shared the same via the GSoC dashboard > > > Please read, most importantly the 'About Project' section > > > > > > Let me know of the stuff I should add/remove/update to better > justify the > > > task. > > > > > > also It would help, if someone volunteers to answer the impact of > this > > project > > > required to be filled in as an answer in the 'Project and the > Community' > > > section > > > > > > Thanks > > > Rudra Sadhu > > > > > > On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 5:46 PM, Rudra Sadhu <[2][7] > [email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > > Thanks James, > > > the resources you mentioned were really helpful. > > > > > > I went ahead to migrate a few of the pages by the guidelines > you > > described. > > > Find the Pull Request here: [3][8]https://github. > com/sugarlabs/ > > activity-abacus > > > /pull/13 > > > > > > Please review > > > > > > On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 4:32 AM, James Cameron <[4][9] > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > On IRC #sugar Vipul Gupta asked; > > > > > > <vipulgupta2048> Hey, in the Activity task of migration. > We need > > to > > > migrate content from activities page to their Githubs or > their > > git > > > pages. > > > > > > <vipulgupta2048> ? > > > > > > <vipulgupta2048> Please clarify which one is it. Some > pages don't > > have > > > the links of their repository > > > > > > <vipulgupta2048> The organisations is not uniform. I have > > included > > > this in my proposal too. > > > > > > <Quozl_> vipulgupta2048: need to write a program that will > > migrate > > > content from [5][10]wiki.sugarlabs.org activities page to > > respective GitHub > > > repository README.md files, yet without duplicating what is > > there, and > > > without duplicating user documentation in the > help-activity, see > > > recent posts to sugar-devel@ discussing the issue. > > > > > > <Quozl_> vipulgupta2048: did you get the above? if not, > i'll > > have to > > > write a mail. > > > > > > My recent post is quoted below and can be found in the > mailing > > list > > > archives. > > > > > > On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 06:04:02PM +1100, James Cameron > wrote: > > > > G'day Rudra, > > > > > > > > Thanks for being at the meeting earlier, and for your > proposal. > > > > > > > > A project for GSoC 2013 added context sensitive help, or > user > > > > documentation, to the Sugar desktop, with alt+shift+h > key. > > > > > > > > It works with the Help activity. Metadata in the Help > activity > > links > > > a > > > > subject activity to a markdown source file, which is > converted > > to > > > HTML > > > > and rendered in a tiny browser. > > > > > > > > Many of these source files came from the Wiki pages of > > activities, > > > and > > > > have been updated since then. > > > > > > > > Please review and integrate the Help activity into your > > proposal; for > > > > instance; > > > > > > > > - avoid duplicating user documentation into activity > > repositories, > > > > because that would make for unncessary maintenance > burden, > > or; > > > > > > > > - move some of the Help activity files into activity > > repositories and > > > > provide a way to update the Help activity from the > subject > > > > activities. > > > > > > > > Please review the discussion on these two pull requests; > > > > > > > > [6][11]https://github.com/sugarlabs/activity-abacus/ > pull/12 > > > > [7][12]https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-docs/pull/137 > > > > > > > > And then ask any questions to clarify, thanks. > > > > > > > > -- > > > > James Cameron > > > > [8][13]http://quozl.netrek.org/ > > > > > > -- > > > James Cameron > > > [9][14]http://quozl.netrek.org/ > > > > > > References: > > > > > > [1] [15]https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Summer_of_Code/2018/ > attentive_ > > migration_of_wiki_activity_pages_to_git > > > [2] mailto:[16][email protected] > > > [3] [17]https://github.com/sugarlabs/activity-abacus/pull/13 > > > [4] mailto:[18][email protected] > > > [5] [19]http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/ > > > [6] [20]https://github.com/sugarlabs/activity-abacus/pull/12 > > > [7] [21]https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-docs/pull/137 > > > [8] [22]http://quozl.netrek.org/ > > > [9] [23]http://quozl.netrek.org/ > > > > -- > > James Cameron > > [24]http://quozl.netrek.org/ > > > > References: > > > > [1] https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities > > [2] https://github.com/godiard/help-activity/pull/38 > > [3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Delete > > [4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Deletion_and_undeletion > > [5] mailto:[email protected] > > [6] https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Summer_of_Code/ > > [7] mailto:[email protected] > > [8] https://github.com/sugarlabs/activity-abacus > > [9] mailto:[email protected] > > [10] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/ > > [11] https://github.com/sugarlabs/activity-abacus/pull/12 > > [12] https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-docs/pull/137 > > [13] http://quozl.netrek.org/ > > [14] http://quozl.netrek.org/ > > [15] https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Summer_of_Code/2018/attentive_ > migration_of_wiki_activity_pages_to_git > > [16] mailto:[email protected] > > [17] https://github.com/sugarlabs/activity-abacus/pull/13 > > [18] mailto:[email protected] > > [19] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/ > > [20] https://github.com/sugarlabs/activity-abacus/pull/12 > > [21] https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-docs/pull/137 > > [22] http://quozl.netrek.org/ > > [23] http://quozl.netrek.org/ > > [24] http://quozl.netrek.org/ > > -- > James Cameron > http://quozl.netrek.org/ > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel >
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