Hello,

It's been about a month or so since my last update, so here's a quick summary of the work done since that time on the content migration from Confluence to MoinMoin.

First of all, I've uploaded a newer version of the content here:

http://mmwiki.boddie.org.uk/

Not only has the conversion itself been improved, but the underlying Confluence content has also been updated, so it should reflect the existing Wiki (at http://wiki.list.org/) a bit more accurately. I also fought with mod_rewrite to at least make most pages accessible, particularly the FAQ-related pages which contain question marks in their titles (and with which mod_rewrite has an as-yet-unfixed problem).

A lot of the recent work has gone into fixing the XHTML-based markup used by Confluence since version 4. In particular, links, lists, tables and preformatted regions have seen quite a bit of attention, and various pages should now look better due to this. For example:

http://mmwiki.boddie.org.uk/DOC/Mailman_2.1_Members_Manual

(Note that the above page has some fairly strange nested lists at the end where the bulletpoints have been added manually as "o" characters after newlines, and this is not an artifact of my conversion, but the markup is handled sufficiently well to retain the desired visual effect.)

Some things that were mentioned as problem areas have been improved:

http://mmwiki.boddie.org.uk/DEV/A_5_Minute_Guide_to_Get_the_Mailman_Web_UI_R... (This now has properly preformatted regions, although I aim to improve the handling of single-line regions still further.)

http://mmwiki.boddie.org.uk/COM/donate_to_the_GNU_Mailman_project (This now has a fixed link, although the Confluence markup version still needs improving to work correctly.)

http://mmwiki.boddie.org.uk/DOC/Frequently_Asked_Questions (The links to questions now have tidier labels, and my mod_rewrite hacks mean that you can follow them on the hosted site.)

A few things haven't yet been done since the last update that were worth mentioning before:

http://mmwiki.boddie.org.uk/COM/Organizations_that_use_Mailman (I still need to make sure that the anchors are generated for the headings.)

Author information is still not preserved in the page import process, but this will be tested in future.

I want to start implementing macro support and to tidy up the way comments are presented on pages. It might also be nice to have a list of attachments on pages that have them, and I will take a look to see how Confluence tends to present such things.

As I have mentioned previously, the source code for the converter can be found here:

http://hgweb.boddie.org.uk/ConfluenceConverter/

Please take a look at your favourite pages and let me know where improvements can be made to the conversion process.

Paul