Administrivia: After a few years of increasing wikispam, I changed the dirvish wiki from Kwiki Wiki to MoinMoin , migrating about 150 pages of content, mostly manually.
If you have any content on the wiki that you care about, you might want to check it, especially attachments and code formatting. The old Kwiki site is temporarily at http://p.dirvish.org/, and I have daily backups forever, but the kwiki goes away soon. Feh. Moin has much more capability than Kwiki, is actively maintained, etc. I've used it for three other virtual sites for years, with cool stuff like math markup, embedded latex, videos, etc. I can turn some of that on for the dirvish site if needed. There are a few things kwiki does that moin does not, but I did my best to fake around them. ------- ISSUE with reading the wiki: Kwiki has a clumsy URL format ... to access the page FooBar the URL would be http://wiki.dirvish.org/index.cgi?FooBar . The URL for page attachments is too nasty to think about. MoinMoin URL for the page FooBar is http://wiki.dirvish.org/FooBar . However, old links to wiki pages will still expect index.cgi and a GET field, so I translate those to the new format with this added kludge in the dirvish VirtualHost stanza in httpd.conf: ... RewriteEngine on RewriteRule ^/moin_static182/ - [last] + RewriteRule ^/?index.cgi \ + /home/www/dirvish/moin/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/%{QUERY_STRING} \ + [last,type=application/x-httpd-cgi] RewriteRule ^/?(.*) \ /home/www/dirvish/moin/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/$1 \ [last,type=application/x-httpd-cgi] ... This is my first attempt to understand apache mod_rewrite, so I imagine there is a better way. Please enlighten me via private email. ------- ISSUES with writing to the wiki: 1) You will need to create a user account and password. That comes with lots of new features like email notification of changes. 2) The new "text captcha" system will ask you a question before it will write the page. A typical question is "what animal goes oink?" with an expected answer of "pig" or "sow" 2a) These questions and answers are too english-oriented. In France, what goes groin groin is a cochon. If you have a better list of questions with unambiguous answers, which a bot can't easily figure out, please email them to me. ------- Well, enjoy your new wiki. I spent most of the weekend, and the early part of the last two evenings, making the conversions. I hope to have kwiki (and the wikispammers who use it) off my server soon. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [email protected] Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon" Design Contracting in Bipolar and CMOS - Analog, Digital, and Scan ICs _______________________________________________ Dirvish mailing list [email protected] http://www.dirvish.org/mailman/listinfo/dirvish
