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

[Ron Hale-Evans <rwhe@...>]

On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 12:35 AM, Jorge Arroyo <trozo@...> wrote:
> Thanks!
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> 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...

Thanks, Jorge. I globally searched for two pipes || and replaced them
with one pipe |. The search took a really long time and made a huge
hash of the wiki. Fortunately, I had made a complete backup before I
made my announcement, and restoring it to that state only took a few
minutes. I think the only things we lost were my "We're back!" notice
at the top of the home page, and your changes to that table.

Morals:

1. Wiki-wide search and replace is powerful but dangerous.
2. OddMuse is WAY easier to restore from backup than MoinMoin. :)

I'll read the docs before I try anything like that again. OddMuse
probably wants me to escape the pipe characters like &#92;|&#92;| or
something.

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

Thank you. I'll look into that. It's nice to have someone who knows
OddMuse as a user of the wiki.

BTW, I knew these searches were going to break. The Piecepack Wiki is
the only one of the five that makes such extensive use of custom
scripts. Mark Biggar, are you still out there?

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

Thanks. Me too.  Now I'm going to replace the "We're back!" notice and
get some sleep.

By the way, Jorge, your kind words on BoardGameGeek really helped me
keep going with restoring the wikis.

Ron

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