[Mailman-Developers] Wiki woes

[Paul Boddie]

I wrote:
> On Thursday 13 December 2012 18:59:40 Mark Sapiro wrote:
> > I haven't looked at much, but the biggest problem I see is for example
> > <http://mmwiki.boddie.org.uk/DOC/Frequently%20Asked%20Questions?action=re
> >ca ll&rev=5> versus
> > <http://wiki.list.org/display/DOC/Frequently+Asked+Questions>. The issue
> > is the FAQ in particular relies on the listing of child
> > pages to make a hierarchical TOC, and the converted pages have lost
> > the child pages listing.
>
> Yes, the child pages are recorded, but they need to appear below their
> parents in the page hierarchy.

Actually, looking at this again, it isn't really possible to nicely represent 
child pages as subpages in Moin in general, and I did actually write a note 
in my converter that child/parent/ancestor relationships should not affect 
the way pages are organised, but this information will need to be captured 
somehow.

One alternative is to just read the child page references and then generate a 
list at the end of each page's content. This might not be wonderful for 
capturing the relationships, but there are ways of at least searching Moin 
for pages that link to others, so there will be possibilities to retain the 
navigational information to an extent.

I could imagine using page metadata to record such information and to provide 
extensions that can understand it, possibly even extending the search 
mechanism, but this would obviously involve some extra effort.

Paul