[Rd] r wiki

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 09/09/2014, 2:45 AM, Philippe Grosjean wrote:
> Yihui and Gábor,
> 
> I agree with you, and I also think that using Travis CI would be very nice. However, there are hundreds of page on the R wiki to migrate… and syntax is a little bit different than Markdown.
> 
> Of course, a solution would be to start again from scratch, but I think that those who have contributed to the R Wiki deserve more respect. Any suggestion, or idea about this?

It's often not hard to write a simple parser for markup languages like
this, and then you can parse the original and rewrite the equivalent new
markup.  If the markup is only a "little bit" different than Markdown,
you can ignore all the similar bits, and only worry about parsing the
different parts.  (And if the parsing isn't perfect, it may be that
manual tweaking isn't so hard.)

Of course, you did also say something about being "very busy with exams
+ Master and PhD theses", so now might not be the time...

Duncan


> 
> Best, 
> 
> Philippe
> On 08 Sep 2014, at 23:12, Gábor Csárdi <csardi.gabor at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> I second this suggestion.
>>
>> One possible complication I see is that if you would like to run the R
>> code (to display its output for example), then AFAIK you cannot simply
>> use Jekyll on Github's side, but would need some additional
>> infrastructure.
>>
>> It might be possible to use Travis (or some other) CI for it, and
>> avoid installing additional software and/or servers, but anyway, this
>> requires some care and effort.
>>
>> If you don't want to run the code, then it is very easy, apart from
>> the (one-time) migration cost.
>>
>> Best,
>> Gabor
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 4:15 PM, Yihui Xie <xie at yihui.name> wrote:
>>> I want to make a humble suggestion: migrate the wiki to Github, and
>>> build the pages using Jekyll+Markdown. That way, I think it will
>>> attract more volunteers. Simply look how many pull requests that
>>> Hadley has got for his up-coming book hosted on Github
>>> (http://adv-r.had.co.nz): https://github.com/hadley/adv-r/pulls I have
>>> had the experience of maintaining web servers and different wiki/CMS
>>> systems (including Dokuwiki -- I have even written a PHP plugin for
>>> it), and eventually I found I could not afford the time on the job of
>>> a system admin. Now I never do that again, and I just focus on
>>> maintaining the content. Let the professionals do the hosting and
>>> compilation service, and my life has become so much better (no more
>>> worries about security holes and attacks).
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Yihui
>>> --
>>> Yihui Xie <xieyihui at gmail.com>
>>> Web: http://yihui.name
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 12:10 PM, Philippe GROSJEAN
>>> <Philippe.GROSJEAN at umons.ac.be> wrote:
>>>> Uwe and all,
>>>>
>>>> I have problems with the R wiki engine. It seems that there is a systematic attack of the R wiki site that produces an overconsumption of the server's CPU, and consequently, my provider did shutdown the whole SciViews.org web site.
>>>>
>>>> Now, it is a bad time for me to work on this (very busy with exams + Master and PhD theses). I am currently looking for an expert in CMS to look at the problem. I don't know when I will be able to solve this and reopen the R Wiki.
>>>>
>>>> Best,
>>>>
>>>> Philippe
>>>> ..............................................<°}))><........
>>>> ) ) ) ) )
>>>> ( ( ( ( (    Prof. Philippe Grosjean
>>>> ) ) ) ) )
>>>> ( ( ( ( (    Numerical Ecology of Aquatic Systems
>>>> ) ) ) ) )   Mons University, Belgium
>>>> ( ( ( ( (
>>>> ..............................................................
>>>>
>>>> On 06 Sep 2014, at 17:28, Uwe Ligges <ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Rather than asking here, I'd ask Philippe Grosjean directly, hence CCIng.
>>>>>
>>>>> Best,
>>>>> Uwe Ligges
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 06.09.2014 01:17, André Z. D. A. wrote:
>>>>>> This does not answer you, but if you are looking for something that existed on that wiki, it may help:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://web.archive.org/web/20140112055032/http://rwiki.sciviews.org/
>>>>>> doku.php
>>>>>>
>>>>>> And that wiki doesn't look like it had a lot of activity:
>>>>>> https://web.archive.org/web/20140301000000*/http://rwiki.sciviews.org/
>>>
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