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

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

Thanks, Mark. I'll read and digest this later. I guess I can go back
and reread your scripts too.

Your page is here, I think:

http://ludism.org/ppwiki/Mark_20A_2e_20Biggar

What content is missing?

You can see a complete listing of wiki pages here:

http://www.ludism.org/ppwiki?action=index

The way page names were translated from MoinMoin to OddMuse is not
always obvious.

Ron

On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 1:12 PM,  <mark.a.biggar@...> wrote:
> Almost all of the special listing page scripts just used the MoinMoin global page search function with a specially designed RegEx.  That search function automatically generated a WikiLink list for the matching pages.  In particular the Taxonomy page heavily depends on this.
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> Other things that need a replacement method (I've briefly glanced at the formatting pages on the new wiki and didn't see any obvious replacements.)
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> 1. the automatic formatting of definitions in the Glossaries
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> 2. the Anchor based intra-page links on pages like the Glossary also don't work anymore.  I.e., the alphabetic section links and the top-of-page links.
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> BTW, the contents of my designers page has disappeared along with the linked in images.
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Ron Hale-Evans
> To: piecepack@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 16:12:51 +0000 (UTC)
> Subject: Re: [piecepack] Re: Help requested with Piecepack Wiki cleanup effort
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>  I didn't really study the scripts on the old wiki very thoroughly,
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> other than to rule out obvious exploits (not that Mark would do such a
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> thing, but as an admin, you have to be paranoid). However, I love
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> regular expressions and use them regularly (ar ar), and after sleeping
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> on it, it seems to me that it might be possible to take a vanilla
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> OddMuse script and add one or two regular expressions that would
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> transform the special codes Mark installed into pretty HTML for the
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> browser.
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> If that's the case, then it's mostly a simple matter of slapping
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> together the right regular expressions. On the other hand, some of the
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> scripts scanned the whole wiki looking for special tags that showed
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> what kind of kind of game something was, so we'd have to figure out
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> how to do that in OddMuse too. But I think those two things are most
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> of the work, and once we figure out how to do each of them, we can
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> reuse the solutions.
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> It would be nice if we had some feedback from Mark Biggar, who
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> masterminded the original scripts. Mark, are you out there?
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> Ron
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> p.s. Jorge, you are among the most stalwart stalwarts of the piecepack
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> right now. :)
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> On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 1:19 AM, Jorge Arroyo <trozo@...> wrote:
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>> I'm not sure I recommended it, but I recall commenting that I was glad after
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>> the switch because I really like the OddMuse system. It's true, both my own
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>> site and a couple I maintain run under OddMuse and I've done a few simple
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>> scripts for them...
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>> I think it would be great if we could find a way to restore the automatic
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>> listing as it was a great way to list games of a particular type like all
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>> solo games, or games from one designer. I can look into it a bit but I don't
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>> have much free time right now...
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>> btw, "piecepack stalwart"? :D That was funny (although I admit I had to go
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>> look that word up...hehe)
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>> -Jorge
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>> On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 9:07 AM, Ron Hale-Evans <rwhe@...> wrote:
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>>> >>> As you may know, Ludism.org, the server for the Piecepack Wiki,
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>>> >>> suffered a hardware failure in May 2009, and it took a few weeks to
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>>> >>> restore the Piecepack Wiki and various other services. All of the
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>>> >>> information from the wiki was preserved, but it's now running on
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>>> >>> different wiki software called OddMuse (the old software was
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>>> >>> MoinMoin).
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>>> >> Congratulations on this achievement, and thanks to all involved in the
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>>> >> hard slog recovering from the immediate disaster.
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>>> > On behalf of myself, I thank you. :) I also thank you on behalf of my
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>>> > piecepacking wife Marty, who patiently listened to me complain about
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>>> > the whole thing and drove me to Fry's to look for a new PC. :)
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>>> In case it's not clear, I'm kidding on the square. It may have been
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>>> piecepack stalwart Jorge Arroyo who recommended OddMuse in the first
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>>> place; he runs some OddMuse wikis himself. The author of OddMuse was
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>>> also extremely helpful with technical support. And so on.
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>>> Ron
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