> ...Have gone missing. Those pages were intentionally omitted because they are mostly out of date, see www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/MediaWiki/Ignored .
By all means create new pages that are up to date and relevant. Thanks. BTW, the pages at www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/MediaWiki do contain a lot of information about the migration. On 21 September 2015 at 09:57, Dan Bron <[email protected]> wrote: > I wrote: > > > - I notice that any links which use CamelCaseSyntax (automatically > recognized by MoinMoin) or [[Interwiki:syntax] failed to import properly. > > > > - All the automatically-imported tables I’ve encountered have been > spuriously indented one level. For some reason the import tool added a > colon-prefix to all tables. > > > > - The J Demography, one my personal favorite pages, has gone missing. > The original is at http://jsoftware.com/jwiki/Community/Demographics < > http://jsoftware.com/jwiki/Community/Demographics> > > > > - Also, the __underlining__ and ^superscript^ syntax of MoinMoin doesn’t > appear to be supported by MediaWiki, and the import process made no attempt > at translation. > > > > - MoinMoin didn’t have dedicated Talk: pages the way MediaWiki does, so > many “content” pages also have meta-discussions on them. We should move any > such discussions to the Talk: pages which are now available (i.e. separate > content from discussion). > > > > - MoinMoin supported <<macro syntax like this>> which was used for date- > and time-stamps for discussion. Like underlining and superscripting, it > appears the import process made no attempt to convert macros. > > > > - In addition to <<DateTime()>>, other <<Macros>> which had seen some > use on MoinMoin were <<BR>> (which should be expressed in MediaWiki as > <br/>) and <<Anchor()>> (which should be expressed in MediaWiki as <span > id=“..."></span>). > > > > - Certain types of list syntax were not recognized/translated, > specifically A. for alphabetically-labelled ordered lists, and 1.#0 for > numbered lists starting with zero (or generally at integer N for 1.#N). > > > > - Nested tables, especially with “merged cells”, didn’t come in > perfectly. I believe the only good/effective way to convert these will be > manually. > > > > - At least in one case, ##-style comments on pages were not > imported/carried over. > > > In addition to Community/Demographics, it appears > > http://jsoftware.com/jwiki/System/Requests%20%26%20Bug%20Reports > > and all of its children, e.g. > > http://jsoftware.com/jwiki/System/Interpreter/Bugs > > and > > http://jsoftware.com/jwiki/System/Interpreter/Bugs07 > > Have gone missing. > > Given that the link to Request & Bug reports has been removed from > http://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/System < > http://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/System>, it appears that this may have > been intentional. Please restore these pages; I make reference to them > frequently. > > -Dan > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
