options for wiki system & tools for migrating exiting wiki sites / projects

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CCCS' customized django web application

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options for wiki system & tools for migrating exiting wiki sites / projects #104

Open cccs-ip opened 10 years ago

cccs-ip commented 10 years ago

Regarding MediaWiki markup:

https://github.com/dfalk/mezzanine-wiki
- This system looks like it does most of what we want already and integrates well with mezzanine....
https://github.com/sunlightlabs/django-markupwiki
- This is a "simple markup-agnostic wiki for Django" ... " you are free to use whatever markup you desire"
Also possibly useful:
- http://wiki.sheep.art.pl/Wiki%20Creole%20Parser%20in%20Python
- https://github.com/dcramer/py-wikimarkup/tree/master

Regarding full text search:

https://github.com/dcramer/django-sphinx/tree/master

CONTEXT NOTE

Wikis are a good tool for rapidly developing content for the ease with which users could create, rename/move and sort pages. Over time, we have generated a lot of material in MediaWiki markup. No matter whether or not we decide to continue the use of the wikis, it would be terrific to develop an interpreter that could allow to just to drop in text formatted in MediaWiki syntax and still serve it out as HTML

pwhipp commented 10 years ago

I've had trouble installing it. I've forked it and raised an issue with them.

cccs-ip commented 10 years ago

Thanks, Paul. I hadn't yet assigned this because I wanted to ask you about some of the bugs they were talking about on their various sites. There is also another Django wiki app that appears to be better maintained. Since most of our wikis will be used as independent sites (rather than integrated within a larger web infrastructure, like CCCS or Abadi), I also wanted to discuss with you the relative merits of one system versus the other.

Let's find a time to chat soon and figure out a plan for the next steps in site migration...

pwhipp commented 10 years ago

Understood, sorry - When I look at things like this I tend to jump straight to installing them to try them out. BTW, the guy responded quickly to my comment about the installation problem so I'll be able to give you a test installation to play with quite easily when you are ready.

cccs-ip commented 10 years ago

Thanks... and nothing to apologize about. I just have some questions about how systems integrate and what works best.

cccs-ip commented 10 years ago

My friend just introduced me to pandoc--a powerful tool for converting document markup. We might be able to export MediaWiki pages one at a time, run them through this converter, and automate page creation within the web. We'd have to manually re-supply all the links (I'm guessing), but that's not terrible....

Let's have a think about this process. I can re-add a CCCS wiki or otherwise send you the database file. For this first test, we can use a wiki that is public and can be converted to regular site pages. I am not opposed to looking into creating private wiki-based client project sites, but I haven't yet found a good wiki platform. Would be nice to have a GitHub style wiki and to be able to make multiple independent versions of these wikis for specific (internal and private) client projects that we might link through CCCS web (or alternatively allow independent private workspaces within a more encompassing client project site).