Re: [piecepack] Ludism.org wikis are back up

[Jorge Arroyo <trozo@...>]

Thanks!

It seems the Creole Markup Extension uses a different way to create tables
(just one "|" symbol instead of two) so all the tables on the wiki now have
one row... I've corrected the Games page, but correcting all the pages would
be better done with a big search-replace across the whole wiki...

Also, the included searches don't work. I'm not sure if the Transclusion
feature of Oddmuse could be used instead...

Anyway, I'm happy the wiki is back :)

-Jorge

On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 9:01 AM, Ron Hale-Evans <rwhe@ludism.org> wrote:

> The wikis hosted at Ludism.org went down on 9 May 2009 because of a
> hardware failure. These included the Mentat Wiki, Piecepack Wiki, Game
> Design Wiki, Glass Bead Game Wiki, and Seattle Cosmic Wiki. As I write
> this, 31 May, they have been restored with most of their functionality
> (and some they didn't have before). They are accessible in the usual
> ways, including the Ludism.org front page (http://www.ludism.org/). To
> the best of my knowledge, no data has been lost.
>
> All of the wikis have migrated from MoinMoin software
> (http://moinmo.in/)  to OddMuse software (http://www.oddmuse.org/).
> MoinMoin served us well for several years, but it is an overly complex
> package and was very difficult to maintain, upgrade, and -- as it
> happened -- restore from backup.
>
> OddMuse is simple, robust, easy to upgrade, and has excellent antispam
> measures. It can do just about everything MoinMoin did and more,
> including importing our old wiki pages, unchanged. No one I know who
> has ever migrated from MoinMoin to OddMuse has regretted it.
>
> The wikis now use a combination of the old MoinMoin markup styles
> (http://www.oddmuse.org/cgi-bin/oddmuse/Moin_Markup_Extension) and the
> Wiki Creole standard
> (http://www.oddmuse.org/cgi-bin/oddmuse/Creole_Markup_Extension).
> Translation from the old sites isn't perfect, so  individual wiki
> users will have to touch up pages here and there, as will I.
>
> One of the new antispam measures is QuestionAsker, which requires you
> to answer a question before you can save your edits to a page. These
> are very simple questions that wouldn't fool a human using the wiki,
> only a spambot.
>
> I hope that most of the changes are simple and transparent, but there
> will probably be some things to discuss. I intend to add some
> documentation about the transition to the wikis, but please feel free
> to ask questions on whatever wiki you're using, or email me at
> rwhe@.... The OddMuse Wiki itself also has plenty of relevant
> documentation (http://www.oddmuse.org/).
>
> Thanks go to Alex Schröder
> (http://www.oddmuse.org/cgi-bin/oddmuse/Alex_Schr%C3%B6der), the
> creator of OddMuse. Alex and OddMuse have so far been a dream to work
> with.
>
> Thanks for your patience and understanding. I hope the Ludism.org
> wikis are now even more fun and useful than they were. Please spread
> the word that they're back up.
>
> Ron Hale-Evans
> Maintainer, Ludism.org
>
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