Re: Experimenting with migrating wiki to GitHub pages

On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 7:28 AM, Markus Piotrowski
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Am 09.04.2016 um 00:10 schrieb Peter Cock:
>>
>> I made some progress on the migration, and will tackle the category pages
>> next, then "borrow" some of Andreas' styling work as showcased on the (now
>> live) http://biojava.org site. Adding the static API docuemntation pages
>> should be easy, the old release might be more trouble if there are any
>> hosting or file size limits we might hit...
>
>
> BioJava looks great, it uses "Spectral" from HTML5 UP (http://html5up.net/).
> Personally, I like "Strongly  Typed" (http://html5up.net/strongly-typed)
> more, maybe because it's easier for me to imagine how the old site would
> like there ;-)
> Is there any possibility to assist you? Let us know!
>
> Markus

Hi Markus,

It sounds like you know more about the Jekyll styles that I do,
so your advice and help would be welcome :)

I think people could fork the repository but should use their own
account name for the repository name - i.e. username.github.io in
order to get it rendered by GitHub, e.g. my username is peterjc:

https://github.com/peterjc/peterjc.github.io --> http://peterjc.github.io/

(At some point I will delete that now we have this under the
Biopython GitHub account, maybe one day I'll use that for
a personal homepage hosted by GitHub instead?)

Or, in theory you can work on the website look-and-feel using
a locally installed version of Jekyll 3.0.

If you can get something looking good and make a GitHub
pull request, that should work out nicely :)

If you (or anyone else) is mosre interested in the migration step,
I can send you the MediaWiki dump XML file off list and you can
then contribute to the converter tool at:
https://github.com/peterjc/mediawiki_to_git_md

Thanks!

Peter