[IPython-dev] Migrating wiki again

Brian Granger ellisonbg at gmail.com
Thu Jan 10 13:19:33 EST 2013


Sounds good.

On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 10:17 AM, Bradley M. Froehle
<brad.froehle at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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> wrote:
>> > On 10 January 2013 06:10, Bradley M. Froehle <brad.froehle at gmail.com>
>> > 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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