[Mailman-Developers] Wiki Migration Update

[Mark Sapiro]

On 06/17/2013 08:13 AM, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> 
> That would be fantastic, thanks.  Let's wait for Mark's feedback and then we
> can start thinking about next steps.


I am traveling and visiting family through the end of the month and
haven't been following this too closely, but there is only one issue I'm
concerned about and that's URLs to FAQ pages in archived list mail.

It's not a show stopper. We had the same issue when we converted from
the FAQWizard, and it didn't seem to be a big deal, but here it is.

Every page (I think) in the wiki has three URLs.

E.g.
1. <http://wiki.list.org/display/DOC/Frequently+Asked+Questions>
2. <http://wiki.list.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=3604482>
3. <http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3>

I gather that in the migration to Moin, the pages will have names/URLs
like 1. but with spaces instead of pluses. This is fine, and if
necessary a mapping from old to new URLs can be easily constructed.

Form 2. is trickier. Confluence seems to use somewhat arbitrarily either
1. or 2. in internal links, so form 2. is sometimes seen in list posts
referring to FAQ articles.

Form 3. is what Confluence calls "Tiny Link: (useful for email)" and is
available in the pages 'info' and (along with form 1.) in the "Link to
this Page" Tool dialog. I use this all the time in list posts referring
to FAQ articles.

I don't know what info is available in the Confluence dump, but it would
be nice to have at least the 'tiny link' and maybe the pageId info so
that mappings and maybe eventually redirections can be constructed to
get from the old URLs to the new pages.

As I said, I don't think it's a show stopper, but it would be helpful.

Regarding the article numbers appearing in section 4 only: in the
FAQWizard, all the articles were numbered. When Teri converted the
FAQWizard, she dropped the numbers from the page titles. This proved
controversial and Duncan Drury added them back, but only in section 4.

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