As discussed in another thread[1] a migration of the mediawiki at http://tiddlywiki.org/ to TiddlySpace[2] at http://tiddlywiki.tiddlyspace.com/ has started. This message is to give a bit of an update on the progress, encourage participation, provide a space for any questions on the process and to report on some of the issues I've faced thus far.
I've migrated, by hand, some tens of pages to tiddlers. In the process I've updated syntax from mediawiki to tiddlywiki and cleared out any content that is immediately obvious as being wrong. I'm neither an expert in tiddlywiki syntax nor in the entire tiddlywiki ecosystem so it is quite likely I'm getting some of it wrong. I started by migrating the "Main Page" to a "Welcome" tiddler and then following and filling empty links from that Welcome tiddler. Now that I've put the basic framework in place, it would be most excellent if others could follow along using the same process: * Create a tiddlyspace account if you don't yet have one. * Go to http://tiddlywiki.tiddlyspace.com/, find a missing tiddler. * Go to http://tiddlywiki.org/ find the wiki page that corresponds to the missing tiddler. * Copy the content from the wiki into the tiddler. * While reading to update the syntax, update the content where possible. * On the mediawiki page make a link with title "Migrated", at the top of the page, pointing to the permalink. * Repeat until you get too bored to carry on :) Issues I've discovered thus far include: * The mediawiki site uses Namespace:Page style page names, which don't really map to the TiddlyWiki way. I've taken a hybrid approach thus far, mostly changing things like "Dev:Macros" to "DevMacros", but sometimes just leaving the prefix off. * There are some pages which use subpages (e.g. MGSD). These seem candiates for their own spaces perhaps? Opinions? * There's a mishmash of strategies for dealing with case and pluralness in the older wiki. This is compounded by yet more strategies in the @glossary and @tiddlywikidev spaces included in the @tiddlywiki space. We've got links for Tiddlers, Tiddler, tiddlers and tiddler. I believe that is now is the time for others to step in. The older wiki, and thus the new wiki, has always been meant to be the wiki for the tiddlywiki community. That means the community needs to step up and be responsible, as possible, for its content. By moving the content to a hosted, multi-user, TiddlyWiki-based platform, hopefully enough barriers to participation have been removed to make this possible. If barriers still remain please state what they are so we can work on removing them. If the barriers are down, but there still isn't participation that will say alot about the relative or perceived need for a community wiki. So if you are committed to the need, this is your chance to show it. [1] http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki/browse_thread/thread/c005b5a50001bbc9 [2] http://tiddlyspace.com/ -- Chris Dent http://burningchrome.com/ [...] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki?hl=en.
