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

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

Tables and line breaks have been fixed on the Piecepack Wiki, along
with some minor annoyances, improving post-migration usability.

Come on back! I'm hoping to have a nice surprise for people soon, but
I dare not say too much. :)

Ron

On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 12:35 AM, Jorge Arroyo<trozo@...t> wrote:
> 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@...> 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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>> 201-1768
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