Re: Our wiki is back!

Well there's my first project... fixing documentation...nice! I'll be going
as soon as I get back home

On Aug 2, 2016 4:49 AM, "Lucas C. Villa Real" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Greetings!
>
> It's been a while since our Knowledge Base has been shut down due to
> massive spam. We took a dump of the wiki SQL database at the time, but
> for a number of reasons we never really looked into migrating it to
> another platform.
>
> This weekend the subject has been raised once again and I decided to
> take a look at that SQL dump. After a few hours, I had it converted to
> XML and learned enough about the relationship between its tables to
> recreate the wiki. The vast majority of the spammed pages were
> filtered out. The remaining pages were grouped into categories and
> saved as separate .mediawiki files. The resulting set of files and
> directories were imported into Github and voilà: the wiki is back!:
>
>     https://github.com/gobolinux/Documentation/wiki
>
> There are still some minor formatting issues to fix, but the
> conversion looks fine otherwise. Some obvious things that I have
> noticed:
> - #REDIRECT does not seem to work
> - The platform seems to be case insensitive when interpreting file
> names. This can be observed when opening e.g.,
> Recipe_format_specification and Recipe_Format_Specification
> - Pages whose content is too large are not rendered by Github
> - The front page needs to be recreated from one of the restored .mediawiki
> files
>
> I will need our help with the issues listed above. If you have the
> energy and want to get involved, please begin by cloning our
> repository with:
>
>     $ git clone https://github.com/gobolinux/Documentation.wiki.git
>
> Let me know if you have any questions.
>
> Thanks! :-)
> Lucas
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