Xyphoid/MediawikiConversion - Revision history

Wordman: Script: fix links messed up in conversion

2010-06-09T05:02:35Z

Script: fix links messed up in conversion

Wordman: Two-month anniversary

2010-06-08T22:25:50Z

Two-month anniversary

Wordman: Evidently I can do some of my suggestions myself.

2010-06-08T19:32:00Z

Evidently I can do some of my suggestions myself.

Wordman: Another family of bad link

2010-06-08T19:20:25Z

Another family of bad link

Wordman: Another family of bad link

2010-06-08T19:19:33Z

Another family of bad link

Wordman: typo

2010-04-28T21:46:23Z

typo

Wordman: Comments on where the script went wrong.

2010-04-28T21:45:48Z

Comments on where the script went wrong.

BrilliantRain: /* Post-conversion */

2010-04-10T05:25:29Z

‎Post-conversion

Nikink: For BrilliantRain

2010-04-10T04:02:55Z

For BrilliantRain

Nikink: To BrilliantRain

2010-04-10T03:57:35Z

To BrilliantRain

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 Congrats on your wedding!  When you get back, it would be helpful if you could make it so subpages contain backlinks to the parent page in the Main namespace, like they do in the user Namespace - [[User:Kraken|Kraken]]
-:The issue is that subpages don't actually exist in mediawiki - they're just pages with slashes in their name. I'll have a poke at writing an extension to automatically create parent links. Should it go all the way to the top? (eg should the page <nowiki>[[Red/Blue/Green]]</nowiki> link back to <nowiki>[[Red]]</nowiki> or <nowiki>[[Red/Blue]]</nowiki>? [[User:Xyphoid|Xyphoid]]
+:The issue is that subpages don't actually exist in mediawiki - they're just pages with slashes in their name. I'll have a poke at writing an extension to automatically create parent links. Should it go all the way to the top? (eg should the page <nowiki>[[Red/Green]]</nowiki> link back to <nowiki>[[Red]]</nowiki> or <nowiki>[[Red/Blue]]</nowiki>? [[User:Xyphoid|Xyphoid]]
-:: Could you do both? <nowiki>[[Red/Blue/Green]]</nowiki> links back to <nowiki>[[Red]]</nowiki> and <nowiki>[[Red/Blue]]</nowiki>, while <nowiki>[[Red/Blue]]</nowiki> links back to <nowiki>[[Red]]</nowiki>? I guess that depends on how many /'s can exist in one path. I haven't yet seen more than two, but I don't know definitively. [[nikink]]
+:: Could you do both? <nowiki>[[Red/Green]]</nowiki> links back to <nowiki>[[Red]]</nowiki> and <nowiki>[[Red/Blue]]</nowiki>, while <nowiki>[[Red/Blue]]</nowiki> links back to <nowiki>[[Red]]</nowiki>? I guess that depends on how many /'s can exist in one path. I haven't yet seen more than two, but I don't know definitively. [[nikink]]
-::: The reason I brought it up is [[User:Kraken/SwiftFalcon/BP|this page]].  For User subpages, it seems to do so already.  So something which did the breadcrumbs style thing for any page would be great.  And the code should be there.  Somewhere.   [[User:Kraken|Kraken]]
+::: The reason I brought it up is [[User:Kraken/BP|this page]].  For User subpages, it seems to do so already.  So something which did the breadcrumbs style thing for any page would be great.  And the code should be there.  Somewhere.   [[User:Kraken|Kraken]]
 *I don't know where to put this, so I will place this here. All the links I posted on my userpage are red links in the new document. Is everything I had lost? Or are they just moved till they can be found. Because seriously, I very much do not want to have to go over it all again just because there was a need to put the completely usable wiki into a new format. This is my user page, http://exalted.xi.co.nz/wiki/Heru . Assistance would be apprecai8ted.
-:No need to panic, you haven't lost anything. In the section immediately below this you can see an area for links that need fixing. The links on your pages probably look like those. If they don't, add them to the list so Xyphoid can work on a script for them. In the meantime, you can get to your material by removing the middle section of the path. So <nowiki>[[Nikink/Characters/MettanAku]]</nowiki> is wrong link, but <nowiki>[[Nikink/MettanAku]]</nowiki> is correct address. Also, this wasn't a transition made 'on a whim', or just because Xyphoid felt mean. He had valid reason for the switch and the suddenness of it. :) [[nikink]]
+:No need to panic, you haven't lost anything. In the section immediately below this you can see an area for links that need fixing. The links on your pages probably look like those. If they don't, add them to the list so Xyphoid can work on a script for them. In the meantime, you can get to your material by removing the middle section of the path. So <nowiki>[[Nikink/MettanAku]]</nowiki> is wrong link, but <nowiki>[[Nikink/MettanAku]]</nowiki> is correct address. Also, this wasn't a transition made 'on a whim', or just because Xyphoid felt mean. He had valid reason for the switch and the suddenness of it. :) [[nikink]]
 ::Yep, my apologies for the relatively abrupt transition, but the alternative was a high chance of the wiki being down completely for several weeks while I was away. [[Xyphoid]]
 ::: Also, I know a few people were after a dump of the entire wiki for backup / peace of mind purposes - there is a file 'exwiki_import.xml' in the root of the site, which can be imported directly into mediawiki. Let me know if you need a more up to date version. [[Xyphoid]]
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 Please list types of links that need to be fixed by scripting, along with an example page.
-* <nowiki>[[[FrivYeti/SteelAndGlass/SaGHistory1]] | The First Age; From the Fall of the Primordials to the Great Contagion.]]</nowiki> - non-subpage links with descriptions, see [[FrivYeti/SteelAndGlass]]. Looks like the import script wasn't prepared for links with spaces around the pipe. That is, stuff like <nowiki>[[SamplePage|a sample page]]</nowiki> were handled correctly, but <nowiki>[[SamplePage | a sample page]]</nowiki> got totally mangled.
+* <nowiki>[[FrivYeti/SaGHistory1|The First Age; From the Fall of the Primordials to the Great Contagion.]]</nowiki> - non-subpage links with descriptions, see [[FrivYeti/SteelAndGlass]]. Looks like the import script wasn't prepared for links with spaces around the pipe. That is, stuff like <nowiki>[[SamplePage|a sample page]]</nowiki> were handled correctly, but <nowiki>[[SamplePage|a sample page]]</nowiki> got totally mangled.
-* <nowiki>[[Nikink/Characters/MettanAku]]</nowiki> - <nowiki>[[/MettanAku]]</nowiki> links on [[Nikink/Characters]], it appears /xxx should always link to the top level page even on zzz/yyy. That is, on page <nowiki>Nikink/Characters</nowiki>, a link like <nowiki>/MettanAku</nowiki> should have become <nowiki>[[Nikink/MettanAku]]</nowiki>. This screwed up ''a lot'' of links.
+* <nowiki>[[Nikink/MettanAku]]</nowiki> - <nowiki>[[/MettanAku]]</nowiki> links on [[Nikink/Characters]], it appears /xxx should always link to the top level page even on zzz/yyy. That is, on page <nowiki>Nikink/Characters</nowiki>, a link like <nowiki>/MettanAku</nowiki> should have become <nowiki>[[Nikink/MettanAku]]</nowiki>. This screwed up ''a lot'' of links.
 * <nowiki>Heru/[[SubpageName]]</nowiki> - <nowiki>Heru/SubpageName</nowiki> I think the presence of <nowiki>[[...]]</nowiki> in Heru's subpage links confused the conversion script.
-* Artifacts page has broken links to most subpages. Things presented in the format <nowiki>[[[Artifacts/DefensiveLevel1]] | Level 1 Artifacts]]</nowiki> are broken. Not sure if it's the wrong number of brackets or if it's just a format that worked on the old wiki and doesn't on this one.
+* Artifacts page has broken links to most subpages. Things presented in the format <nowiki>[[Artifacts/DefensiveLevel1|Level 1 Artifacts]]</nowiki> are broken. Not sure if it's the wrong number of brackets or if it's just a format that worked on the old wiki and doesn't on this one.
-* Pages that originally used HTML tags in ''capital'' letters (e.g. <tt><nowiki><B>bold!</B></nowiki></tt>) got fairly mangled by the original conversion script. For example, a page like [[DragonBloodedMelee/TheMyriadOfShades‎‎]] had some text like <tt><nowiki><B>Cost:</B></nowiki></tt> that got turned into <tt><nowiki><B>Cost:[[DragonBloodedMelee/B]]></nowiki></tt>
+* Pages that originally used HTML tags in ''capital'' letters (e.g. <tt><nowiki><B>bold!</B></nowiki></tt>) got fairly mangled by the original conversion script. For example, a page like [[DragonBloodedMelee/TheMyriadOfShades‎‎]] had some text like <tt><nowiki><B>Cost:</B></nowiki></tt> that got turned into <tt><nowiki><B>Cost:</B></nowiki></tt>
 == Other requests ==
 * Automatic backlinks from child pages (anything of the name xxx/xxx) to the parent page

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 : Check the 'Links that need fixing' section below. If your links look like any of those examples you just need to follow the example to fix them. If your links do not look like any of those examples, you should probably add a new example to the list so that eventually (not too far away) Xyphoid can run a conversion script to fix all examples. Make sense? [[nikink]] <i>PS: I have gone to [[BrilliantRain/Artifacts]] and left an example for you.</i>
 ::That did it, thanks! -- [[BrilliantRain]]
 == Links needing fixing ==

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 # This ship has probably already sailed, but it would have been easier to just enable subpages in the main namespace (<code>$wgNamespacesWithSubpages[NS_MAIN] = true;</code>) than to try to translate them all.
 # There are a lot of links ''into'' this wiki on outside sites like forums and such. Following them no longer leads to the correct place; however, it would be pretty easy to add a <code>.htaccess</code> rule to take care of this. Something like <code>RedirectMatch 301 wiki.pl?(.*)$ http://exalted.xi.co.nz/wiki/$1</code> would probably work.
-# You might want to fill in the [[MediaWiki:Common.css]] page with the contents of [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Common.css this page]. It provides some common table styles and such that are fairly useful.
+# You might want to fill in the [[MediaWiki:Common.css]] page with the contents of [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Common.css this page]. It provides some common table styles and such that are fairly useful. ('''Update''' Looks like I have permission to do this, somehow, so I have done it.)
 # I will change the [[InterPageLinks]] page, as this feature should now work, using slightly different markup.
 # It might be useful to start making use of the "Discussion" pages that MediaWiki supports. I guess the notion would be to slowly migrate the "comments" section that most pages have into the discussion page. Or, we could just ignore it (in which case, I think you can use a preference to turn the feature off).
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 # Some extensions could be helpful, but this is a tough call. For example, I find the [http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki Semantic plugins] supremely useful for my [http://rpg.divnull.com/wiki/index.php/Special:Version own wiki], but using them takes discipline, and it is ponderous to retrofit old content to take advantage of them, so may not be appropriate here.
 # I think it is possible to enable WikiWordSyntax in MediaWiki. Given the long history of this site, this could be desirable.
-# The [[MediaWiki:Sidebar]] should be changed to have, at least, the [[WikiContent]] link.
+# The [[MediaWiki:Sidebar]] should be changed to have, at least, the [[WikiContent]] link. ('''Update''' Looks like I have permission to do this, somehow, so I have done it.)
 - [[Wordman]]

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 * Artifacts page has broken links to most subpages. Things presented in the format <nowiki>[[[Artifacts/DefensiveLevel1]] | Level 1 Artifacts]]</nowiki> are broken. Not sure if it's the wrong number of brackets or if it's just a format that worked on the old wiki and doesn't on this one.
-* Pages that originally used HTML tags in ''capital'' letters (e.g. <tt><nowiki><B>bold!</B></nowiki></tt>) got fairly mangled by the original conversion script. For example, a page like [[DragonBloodedMelee/TheMyriadOfShades‎‎]] had some text like <tt><nowiki><B>Cost:</B></nowiki></tt> that got turned into <tt><nowiki><B>Cost:[[DragonBloodedMelee/B]]></nowiki>/tt>
+* Pages that originally used HTML tags in ''capital'' letters (e.g. <tt><nowiki><B>bold!</B></nowiki></tt>) got fairly mangled by the original conversion script. For example, a page like [[DragonBloodedMelee/TheMyriadOfShades‎‎]] had some text like <tt><nowiki><B>Cost:</B></nowiki></tt> that got turned into <tt><nowiki><B>Cost:[[DragonBloodedMelee/B]]></nowiki></tt>
 == Other requests ==
 * Automatic backlinks from child pages (anything of the name xxx/xxx) to the parent page

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 * Artifacts page has broken links to most subpages. Things presented in the format <nowiki>[[[Artifacts/DefensiveLevel1]] | Level 1 Artifacts]]</nowiki> are broken. Not sure if it's the wrong number of brackets or if it's just a format that worked on the old wiki and doesn't on this one.
 == Other requests ==
 * Automatic backlinks from child pages (anything of the name xxx/xxx) to the parent page

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	Some of my pages don't seem to have linked up. How do I find them? --BrilliantRain		Some of my pages don't seem to have linked up. How do I find them? --BrilliantRain
		+	: Check the 'Links that need fixing' section below. If your links look like any of those examples you just need to follow the example to fix them. If your links do not look like any of those examples, you should probably add a new example to the list so that eventually (not too far away) Xyphoid can run a conversion script to fix all examples. Make sense? [[nikink]]

	== Links needing fixing ==		== Links needing fixing ==