[melbourne-pug] python-based wiki with nice query-/template-ability?

Anthony Briggs anthony.briggs at gmail.com
Thu Jan 30 05:11:37 CET 2014


I don't know of anything like that off of the top of my head, but from a
quick search there are a few lightweight wikis around which might be
possible to hack on, eg. https://pypi.python.org/pypi/djiki and
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/valet. Perhaps they might get you further than
MoinMoin?


On 30 January 2014 14:53, Noon Silk <noonslists at gmail.com> wrote:

> > It might help if you gave us some more detail about what you're trying
> to
> > do, rather than a list of features. eg. The iPython notebook will let
> you
> > execute arbitrary code, but I don't know whether it can introspect and
> > pull bits of other pages in the same notebook.
>
> I want a Wiki - community editable, versionable, trivial setup, with some
> customisability to query the pages that the wiki has, and obtain bits of
> the pages - say I create a template page and it always contains sections
> "Description, Example, Json" and then I want to obtain each "Example" from
> each "page" that I have queried and do things with it; like perhaps create
> a graph.
>
> Something very similar to FindStat.org, really - http://www.findstat.org/(which uses MoinMoin). Note that while this looks like it makes a lot of
> use of MoinMoin, infact almost all the work is done through MoinMoin
> "macros", written in Python. I want to re-use as much of the wiki as
> possible.
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 2:23 PM, Anthony Briggs <anthony.briggs at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Trac is pretty painful to set up, from memory.
>>
>> It might help if you gave us some more detail about what you're trying to
>> do, rather than a list of features. eg. The iPython notebook will let you
>> execute arbitrary code, but I don't know whether it can introspect and pull
>> bits of other pages in the same notebook.
>>
>> Failling that, it might be relatively easy to roll your own, either with
>> Django or some combination of Flask/Peewee/Jinja/similar.
>>
>> Anthony
>>
>>
>>
>> On 30 January 2014 13:36, Noon Silk <noonslists at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> > There is Django snippets ... https://djangosnippets.org
>>> > and Pastebin ... http://pastebin.com/
>>>
>>> ..., these are both websites. I'm looking for something to customise
>>> myself.
>>>
>>>
>>> > Also, have you looked at the Trac wiki? Most people would use it for
>>> > the ticketing but it also has useful wiki with markup permitting code.
>>>
>>> I hadn't considered Trac for this, thanks for reminding me about it. I'm
>>> not sure it's right, though.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 12:17 PM, Mike Dewhirst <miked at dewhirst.com.au>wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 30/01/2014 11:56am, Noon Silk wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>
>>>>>    So I'm interested in a python-based wiki that I can write arbitrary
>>>>> python code in; perhaps with a view to:
>>>>>    1) Creating specific templates,
>>>>>    2) Arbitrarily querying the list of pages,
>>>>>    3) Obtaining specific "bits" of pages (Perhaps I mark a section in
>>>>> the template as "json", then I'd want to grab the json from pages A,
>>>>> B, X, Y
>>>>>
>>>>>    Anyone know of something out there that does this?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> There is Django snippets ... https://djangosnippets.org
>>>> and Pastebin ... http://pastebin.com/
>>>>
>>>> Also, have you looked at the Trac wiki? Most people would use it for
>>>> the ticketing but it also has useful wiki with markup permitting code.
>>>>
>>>> Mike
>>>>
>>>> At the moment all
>>>>
>>>>> I can think of is MoinMoin [1].
>>>>>
>>>>> [1] http://moinmo.in/MoinMoinWiki
>>>>> --
>>>>> Noon Silk
>>>>>
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>>>>>
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