> From: Dan McGrath > I seem to recall a while ago that there were plans to > upgrade PickWiki to utilise MediaWiki. > What ended up happening? Was the idea scrapped? > (Question spurred from Tony's sig)
That's another community project that stalled, but this one was my fault. :) Ian McGowan still hosts the existing site. Rex Gozar, Ian, and I discussed and started the migration process, which then stalled in Jan/2010. See the prototype here: remove.thisNebula-RnD.com/mediawiki Where it says "remove.this" ... remove that part. That's not a new permanent home, that's just where I was staging the migration. Please don't update pages there, changes will be lost in the next conversion. Click the Random Page link to see various pages. From the Special Pages link you can find "All Pages" and more. Search for "To Do" to see what else needs to be done. MediaWiki is much better than the software being used now, and I still think this migration is a worthy project. The roadblock was converting from the current markup codes to MW-specific markup. We were doing this with BASIC, parsing documents and re-writing them in the new format, then importing them into MySQL. As you can see, most of the pages converted quite nicely. As with any programmatic language conversion however, there were some codes there were more difficult to convert than others, and lots of metadata needed to be generated from scratch. When pressed to generate income I put that project on hold, and there it now sits with a dozen other community projects just like it. If I can find some time (ha!) I'll try to publish code and notes on the live pickwiki.com so that others can help. This is a one-shot, and once all pages are migrated we don't need the code anymore. For as long as this has taken, it might have better to finish some of the document conversions manually. That said, considering the number of people who participate in community projects, I didn't think I could count on much human assistance for this one. Thanks for asking. T Tony Gravagno Nebula Research and Development TG@ remove.pleaseNebula-RnD.com remove.pleaseNebula-RnD.com/blog Visit PickWiki.com! Contribute! http://Twitter.com/TonyGravagno _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list [email protected] http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
