X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/3599d9e81cc018260d907241bff02e677059f99f..e54ec757d01fd77001fc5efe1942bdeea8ee468f:/doc/index/discussion.mdwn diff --git a/doc/index/discussion.mdwn b/doc/index/discussion.mdwn index 329673e91..d52cb0a2d 100644 --- a/doc/index/discussion.mdwn +++ b/doc/index/discussion.mdwn @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ Do so here.. Note that for more formal bug reports or todo items, you can also edit the [[bugs]] and [[todo]] pages. -[[toc ]] +[[!toc ]] # Installation/Setup questions @@ -58,6 +58,8 @@ I'm kind of at a loss how to track this down or work around it. Any suggestions >Ubuntu Hardy Heron has a debian package now, but that does not work either. > --Dirk 22Apr2008 +> This might be related to [Text::Markdown bug #37297](http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=37297).--ChapmanFlack 9Jul2008 + ---- # Installation of selected docs (html) @@ -94,7 +96,7 @@ I'd like to install ikiwiki as a non-root user. I can plow through getting all t perl dependencies installed because that's well documented in the perl world, but I don't know how to tell ikiwiki to install somewhere other than / --BrianWilson -> Checkout the tips section for [[tips/SharedHosting]]. It should do the trick. --MattReynolds +> Checkout the tips section for [[tips/DreamHost]]. It should do the trick. --MattReynolds ---- @@ -266,7 +268,7 @@ easily, perl is possible (but I'm not strong in perl). > Jamey Sharp and I have a set of scripts in progress to convert other wikis to ikiwiki, including history, so that we can migrate a few of our wikis. We already have support for migrating MoinMoin wikis to ikiwiki, including conversion of the entire history to Git. We used this to convert the [XCB wiki](http://xcb.freedesktop.org/wiki/) to ikiwiki; until we finalize the conversion and put the new wiki in place of the old one, you can browse the converted result at . We already plan to add support for TWiki (including history, since you can just run parsecvs on the TWiki RCS files to get Git), so that we can convert the [Portland State Aerospace Society wiki](http://psas.pdx.edu) (currently in Moin, but with much of its history in TWiki, and with many of its pages still in TWiki format using Jamey's TWiki format for MoinMoin). > -> Our scripts convert by way of HTML, using portions of the source wiki's code to render as HTML (with some additional code to do things like translate MoinMoin's `\[[TableOfContents]]` to ikiwiki's `\[[toc ]]`), and then using a modified [[cpan HTML::WikiConverter]] to turn this into markdown and ikiwiki. This produces quite satisfactory results, apart from things that don't have any markdown equivalent and thus remain HTML, such as tables and definition lists. Conversion of the history occurs by first using another script we wrote to translate MoinMoin history to Git, then using our git-map script to map a transformation over the Git history. +> Our scripts convert by way of HTML, using portions of the source wiki's code to render as HTML (with some additional code to do things like translate MoinMoin's `\[[TableOfContents]]` to ikiwiki's `\[[!toc ]]`), and then using a modified [[!cpan HTML::WikiConverter]] to turn this into markdown and ikiwiki. This produces quite satisfactory results, apart from things that don't have any markdown equivalent and thus remain HTML, such as tables and definition lists. Conversion of the history occurs by first using another script we wrote to translate MoinMoin history to Git, then using our git-map script to map a transformation over the Git history. > > We will post the scripts as soon as we have them complete enough to convert our wikis. > @@ -286,6 +288,10 @@ easily, perl is possible (but I'm not strong in perl). >>> It appears the scripts were never posted? I recently imported my Mediawiki site into Iki. If it helps, my notes are here: --[[sabr]] +>>>>> The scripts have been posted now, see [[joshtriplett]]'s user page, +>>>>> and I've pulled together all ways I can find to [[convert]] other +>>>>> systems into ikiwiki. --[[Joey]] + ---- # LaTeX support? @@ -409,7 +415,7 @@ I'm sure that this is documented somewhere but I've ransacked the wiki and I can > The default `wiki_file_regexp` matches filenames containing only > `[-[:alnum:]_.:/+]` > -> The IkiWiki::titlepage() function will convert freeform text to a valid +> The titlepage() function will convert freeform text to a valid > page name. See [[todo/should_use_a_standard_encoding_for_utf_chars_in_filenames]] > for an example. --[[Joey]]