Re: [piecepack] Re: Help requested with Piecepack Wiki cleanup effort

[Ron Hale-Evans <rwhe@...>]

I didn't really study the scripts on the old wiki very thoroughly,
other than to rule out obvious exploits (not that Mark would do such a
thing, but as an admin, you have to be paranoid). However, I love
regular expressions and use them regularly (ar ar), and after sleeping
on it, it seems to me that it might be possible to take a vanilla
OddMuse script and add one or two regular expressions that would
transform the special codes Mark installed into pretty HTML for the
browser.

If that's the case, then it's mostly a simple matter of slapping
together the right regular expressions. On the other hand, some of the
scripts scanned the whole wiki looking for special tags that showed
what kind of kind of game something was, so we'd have to figure out
how to do that in OddMuse too. But I think those two things are most
of the work, and once we figure out how to do each of them, we can
reuse the solutions.

It would be nice if we had some feedback from Mark Biggar, who
masterminded the original scripts. Mark, are you out there?

Ron

p.s. Jorge, you are among the most stalwart stalwarts of the piecepack
right now. :)

On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 1:19 AM, Jorge Arroyo <trozo@...> wrote:
> I'm not sure I recommended it, but I recall commenting that I was glad after
> the switch because I really like the OddMuse system. It's true, both my own
> site and a couple I maintain run under OddMuse and I've done a few simple
> scripts for them...
>
> I think it would be great if we could find a way to restore the automatic
> listing as it was a great way to list games of a particular type like all
> solo games, or games from one designer. I can look into it a bit but I don't
> have much free time right now...
>
> btw, "piecepack stalwart"? :D That was funny (although I admit I had to go
> look that word up...hehe)
>
> -Jorge
>
> On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 9:07 AM, Ron Hale-Evans <rwhe@...> wrote:
>
>> >>> As you may know, Ludism.org, the server for the Piecepack Wiki,
>> >>> suffered a hardware failure in May 2009, and it took a few weeks to
>> >>> restore the Piecepack Wiki and various other services. All of the
>> >>> information from the wiki was preserved, but it's now running on
>> >>> different wiki software called OddMuse (the old software was
>> >>> MoinMoin).
>> >>
>> >> Congratulations on this achievement, and thanks to all involved in the
>> >> hard slog recovering from the immediate disaster.
>> >
>> > On behalf of myself, I thank you. :) I also thank you on behalf of my
>> > piecepacking wife Marty, who patiently listened to me complain about
>> > the whole thing and drove me to Fry's to look for a new PC. :)
>>
>> In case it's not clear, I'm kidding on the square. It may have been
>> piecepack stalwart Jorge Arroyo who recommended OddMuse in the first
>> place; he runs some OddMuse wikis himself. The author of OddMuse was
>> also extremely helpful with technical support. And so on.
>>
>> Ron
>>
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