I wanted to clone Rails Wiki, but it doesn’t have this “export” feature.
Here’s my plan:
Get an export of current Rails Wiki (with all revisions, so we can
rollback).
Install MediaWiki
(the hardest part) convert all Rails Wiki pages to MediaWiki
If necessary, redirect/replace wiki.rubyonrails.* to the new
site/server/whatever
I’ll do all of the above steps if I can get access to Rails Wiki’s
current i2’s database.
wget/spider-ing the current wiki isn’t really a solution. But I’ll do
that if nobody helps me. But I hope somebody does.
Please, to the maintainer of the wiki, send me the wiki database or
give me some shell access to that server. Then rest assured, wait
several days or weeks.
Hrm, interesting thought. I’m all for a better solution, whether using
rails or not. I think you should use the best tool for the job. As it
is right now, the wiki is pretty much unusable.
I’ll do all of the above steps if I can get access to Rails Wiki’s
current i2’s database.
wget/spider-ing the current wiki isn’t really a solution. But I’ll do
that if nobody helps me. But I hope somebody does.
Please, to the maintainer of the wiki, send me the wiki database or
give me some shell access to that server. Then rest assured, wait
several days or weeks.
Why don’t you email some of the wiki folks, and attempt to work w/i
their process instead of starting your own? Besides, if you switch
wiki engines to something that doesn’t support textile, noone will
want to use it. The wiki syntax that stuff like wikipedia uses is
horrible.
Just search this list for “wiki spam” and I’m sure you’ll find the
folks who are working on things right now…
(the hardest part) convert all Rails Wiki pages to MediaWiki
give me some shell access to that server. Then rest assured, wait
several days or weeks.
Why don’t you email some of the wiki folks, and attempt to work w/i
their process instead of starting your own? Besides, if you switch
wiki engines to something that doesn’t support textile, noone will
want to use it. The wiki syntax that stuff like wikipedia uses is
horrible.
Just search this list for “wiki spam” and I’m sure you’ll find the
folks who are working on things right now…
And (unfortunately) it seems not everybody wants to code for the Rails
doesn’t seem he’s here. Even if he’s here, where is he?
By the way, by I’m saying the above paragraphs… I’m also
volunteering myself to “fix” the Rails wiki had I had a (temporary)
shell account to the box.
