[IPython-dev] Migrating wiki again

[Bradley M. Froehle]

Well the good news is that the github system supports a number of formats,
including rst, mediawiki, and markdown. In the initial import I think we
should just preserve the existing format.

We can then convert pages at our leisure and suggest that new pages use our
preferred format.

Brad

On Thursday, January 10, 2013, Brian Granger wrote:

> I know our docs use reST, but as time goes along, I am using reST less
> and less in favor of markdown.  Personally, I would prefer to use
> Markdown, at least for our new wiki pages.
>
> On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 2:21 AM, Thomas Kluyver <takowl at gmail.com<javascript:;>>
> wrote:
> > On 10 January 2013 06:10, Bradley M. Froehle <brad.froehle at gmail.com<javascript:;>>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Min: Thanks for the XML file. I had just built a script to scrape
> >> http://wiki.ipython.org/Special:AllPages so I could use
> >> http://wiki.ipython.org/Special:Export.
> >> (https://gist.github.com/4499750#file-ipython_all_pages-py).
> >>
> >> Anyway, this mw-to-gollum.rb script
> >> (https://gist.github.com/4499750#file-mw-to-gollum-rb) seems to work
> okay.
> >>
> >> I've run it and pushed the results to
> >> https://github.com/bfroehle/ipython/wiki/Main-Page
> >
> >
> > We've tried to keep a substantial portion of the wiki content in reST, so
> > that we can easily move content between the wiki and the docs. Github
> wikis
> > can handle reST natively, so it should be easy to fix pages like
> > https://github.com/bfroehle/ipython/wiki/Extensions-Index
> >
> > Thomas
> >
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