Re: GEDCOM to Wiki, anyone?

Mike Hamilton wrote:
> I did some preliminary work on exactly this quite some years back. I 
> think I can claim to know the Paul's (excellent) Gedcom module pretty
> well, having used it to generate custom charts, etc.

Well, then...  I may start hitting you up for some advice...  :-)

> But there's a huge problem to which I could find no answer; what 
> happens when somebody makes a change? These should update the Gedcom 
> file, which would often have a flow-on effect to the rest of the 
> Wiki, which would need regenerating.

In my case, this is not a problem.  The GEDCOM file is merely a one-time
transport mechanism.  Once the pages are up, my Wiki will become the
official repository.

In other words, this conversion is a one-way trip.

> I used MediaWiki, but I see that DokuWiki "makes sure the datafiles 
> remain readable outside the Wiki and eases the creation of structured
> texts", so it looks a much better choice.

Yes, this is the main reason I chose DokuWiki.  The pages are stored as
plain text files.  When I first got the Wiki running, I generated most
of the initial pages by converting them from HTML pages (using a quick
one-shot perl script).

> Sorry I couldn't give Jim a more positive and useful response

Not a problem.  I'll be spending some time on this project this weekend.
When I'm done, I'll try to include a page on my wiki about the
conversion process (in case others might find it useful in the future).

-- 
Jim Seymour