X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/f9aa09e2f6e35c7466aca374dc0a1299ca9cf283..43a1640345e5af8f173a9d3669a4c9e0dfb0a512:/doc/index/discussion.mdwn?ds=sidebyside diff --git a/doc/index/discussion.mdwn b/doc/index/discussion.mdwn index 3d17ddb2a..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 @@ -25,6 +25,41 @@ of via syslog? > > The reason is that I'm not logged in on the web server regularly to > > check the log files. I'll see whether I can install a logwatch instance. +I'm trying to install from scratch on a CentOS 4.6 system. I installed perl 5.8.8 from source and then added all the required modules via CPAN. When I build ikiwiki from the tarball, I get this message: + + rendering todo/calendar_--_archive_browsing_via_a_calendar_frontend.mdwn + *** glibc detected *** double free or corruption (!prev): 0x0922e478 *** + make: *** [extra_build] Aborted + +I'm kind of at a loss how to track this down or work around it. Any suggestions? --Monty + +> All I can tell you is that it looks like a problem with your C library or +> perl. Little perl programs like ikiwiki should only be able to trigger +> such bugs, not contain them. :-) Sorry I can't be of more help. +> --[[Joey]] + +> I had a similar problem after upgrading to the latest version of +> Text::Markdown from CPAN. You might try either looking for a Markdown +> package for CentOS or using the latest version of John Gruber's +> Markdown.pl: +> +> --[[JasonBlevins]], April 1, 2008 18:22 EDT + +>> Unfortunately I couldn't find a CentOS package for markdown, and I +>> couldn't quite figure out how to use John Gruber's version instead. +>> I tried copying it to site_perl, etc., but the build doesn't pick +>> it up. For now I can just play with it on my Ubuntu laptop for which +>> the debian package installed flawlessly. I'll probably wait for an +>> updated version of Markdown to see if this is fixed in the future. +>> --Monty + +>I suggest that you pull an older version of Text::Markdown from CPAN. I am using and that works just fine. +>There is a step change in version and size between this version (dated 11Jan2008) and the next version (1.0.12 dated 18Feb2008). I shall have a little look to see why, in due course. +>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) @@ -61,7 +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 [SharedHosting](tips/SharedHosting). It should do the trick. --MattReynolds +> Checkout the tips section for [[tips/DreamHost]]. It should do the trick. --MattReynolds ---- @@ -233,7 +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. > @@ -251,6 +286,12 @@ easily, perl is possible (but I'm not strong in perl). >> >> -- [[MichaelRasmussen]] +>>> 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? @@ -280,24 +321,6 @@ Any setting for limiting how many kilobytes can be submitted via the "edit" form ---- -# Access Keys - -Would anyone else find this a valuable addition. In oddmuse and instiki (the only other -wiki engines I am currently using, the edit, home, and submit link tags have an -accesskey attribute. I find it nice not to have to resort to the mouse for those -actions. However, it may not be something everyone appreciates. Any thoughts? ---[Mazirian](http://mazirian.com) - -> Maybe, although it would need to take the critisism at -> into account. - ->> Thank you for that link. Given that the edit link is the first thing you tab to ->> in the current layout, I guess it isn't all that necessary. I have had a ->> a user complaint recently that Alt-e in oddmuse was overriding his access ->> to the browser menu. - ----- - # Editing the style sheet. It would be nice to be able to edit the stylesheet by means of the cgi. Or is this possible? I wasn't able to achieve it. @@ -347,7 +370,7 @@ aren't allowed in WikiLinks now? My best regards, ---[[Paweł|ptecza]] +--[[PaweB|ptecza]] > See [[bugs/Spaces_in_link_text_for_ikiwiki_links]] @@ -392,7 +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]] @@ -415,3 +438,27 @@ Any suggestions? > There are no upgrade steps required. It does look like you need to enable > the meta plugin to get a good recentchanges page though.. --[[Joey]] + +# News site where articles are submitted and then reviewed before posting? + +I am considering moving a news site to Ikiwiki. I am hoping that Ikiwiki has a feature where anonymous posters can submit a form that moderators can review and then accept for it to be posted on a news webpage (like front page of the website). + +> Well, you can have one blog that contains unreviewed articles, and +> moderators can then add a tag that makes the article show up in the main +> news feed. There's nothing stopping someone submitting an article +> pre-tagged though. If you absolutely need to lock that down, you could +> have one blog with unreviewed articles in one subdirectory, and reviewers +> then move the file over to another subdirectory when they're ready to +> publish it. (This second subdirectory would be locked to prevent others +> from writing to it.) --[[Joey]] + +Also it would be good if the news page would keep maybe just the latest 10 entries with links to an archive that make it easy to browse to old entries by date. (Could have over a thousand news articles.) + +> The inline plugin allows setting up things like this. + +Plus users be able to post feedback to news items. If anonymous, they must be approved first. I'd prefer to not use normal "wiki" editor for feedback. + +Any thoughts or examples on this? Any links to examples of news sites or blogs with outside feedback using ikiwiki? + +Thanks --[[JeremyReed]] +