[Rd] r wiki

[Philippe Grosjean]

On 09 Sep 2014, at 14:14, Philippe Grosjean <phgrosjean at sciviews.org> wrote:

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> On 09 Sep 2014, at 13:39, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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.)
>> 
> Yes, you are right. I have looked at Pandoc, but it only supports DokuWiki in output, not in input.

Oh, by the way, I found this one: https://github.com/ludoza/DokuWiki-to-Markdown-Converter

PhG

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> 
>> Of course, you did also say something about being "very busy with exams
>> + Master and PhD theses", so now might not be the time…
>> 
> Indeed,… unless there are volunteers over there to help?
> 
> Philippe
> 
>> 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
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>>>>>> ( ( ( ( (    Prof. Philippe Grosjean
>>>>>> ) ) ) ) )
>>>>>> ( ( ( ( (    Numerical Ecology of Aquatic Systems
>>>>>> ) ) ) ) )   Mons University, Belgium
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>>>>>> 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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