[Mailman-Developers] Wiki Migration Update

[Paul Boddie]

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First of all, I've uploaded a newer version of the content here: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_Running_%28only_for_development%29
(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