[SciPy-Dev] Scipy wiki is down again

[Ralf Gommers]

On Sat, Oct 24, 2015 at 6:26 PM, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> On Sat, Oct 24, 2015 at 6:10 PM, Pauli Virtanen <pav at iki.fi> wrote:
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>> Nathaniel Smith <njs <at> pobox.com> writes:
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>> > Yeah, the wiki was terribly out of date and probably needs to just die
>> > (is there anything there that's still relevant aside from the "for
>> > matlab users" page?), but there is a meta problem that is
>> > zero^Wepsilon communication between the people maintaining the
>> > infrastructure and the rest of us, so we stumble forward as best we
>> > can .
>>
>> The wiki dump is available (and links to it have been also before
>> on this list years ago), the static website is on github, so there
>> should be no blockers to this.
>>
>> > > Here is the dump. Go forth and convert!
>> > >
>> > > https://www.dropbox.com/s/54r9ug6bzbsjxdb/scipy-wiki-dump.tbz2?dl=0
>> >
>> > It would be super helpful if you could also say a few words about what
>> > to do with these pages once they are downloaded. Are you suggesting
>> > they go into scipy's sphinx docs, or into some other static website
>> > build somewhere? I don't actually know where the source to scipy.org
>> > is stored...
>>
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I don't think any content from the wiki belongs in the scipy.org repo.


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>> What to do with the old wiki content is up to discussion.
>> I don't think anyone has a plan on what parts of it is still of
>> value, what not, and whether a wiki would still be useful.
>>
>> Previous discussions of this matter as a rule have just fizzled
>> out, probably because there are more interesting things to do.
>>
>> When the scipy.org site was set up three years ago (see previous
>> posts on this list), I moved only the content having directly to
>> do with the software.
>>
>> The fate of scipy cookbook has also been discussed before on this
>> list, and its conversion to ipython notebooks was also done,
>> see links in previous posts. However, the bitrot is great, and
>> new tools for doing things in a better way appeared, so much
>> of the content is outdated.
>>
>> The "numpy for matlab users" was probably one of the valuable
>> extra pages. I have no recollection of what else was there,
>> but that should be visible in the dump.
>>
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> <pressed send too early>


> The "numpy for matlab users" page is probably more useful to people than
> everything else on that wiki combined.
>

 How about converting that page to ReST and putting it in the scipy
tutorial (http://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/reference/tutorial/index.html)?

Ralf
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