From phgrosjean at sciviews.org  Tue Sep  9 14:14:18 2014
From: phgrosjean at sciviews.org (Philippe Grosjean)
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2014 14:14:18 +0200
Subject: [Rd] r wiki
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On 09 Sep 2014, at 13:39, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 09/09/2014, 2:45 AM, Philippe Grosjean wrote:
>> Yihui and G?bor,
>> 
>> I agree with you, and I also think that using Travis CI would be very nice. However, there are hundreds of page on the R wiki to migrate? and syntax is a little bit different than Markdown.
>> 
>> Of course, a solution would be to start again from scratch, but I think that those who have contributed to the R Wiki deserve more respect. Any suggestion, or idea about this?
> 
> It's often not hard to write a simple parser for markup languages like
> this, and then you can parse the original and rewrite the equivalent new
> markup.  If the markup is only a "little bit" different than Markdown,
> you can ignore all the similar bits, and only worry about parsing the
> different parts.  (And if the parsing isn't perfect, it may be that
> manual tweaking isn't so hard.)
> 
Yes, you are right. I have looked at Pandoc, but it only supports DokuWiki in output, not in input.


> Of course, you did also say something about being "very busy with exams
> + Master and PhD theses", so now might not be the time?
> 
Indeed,? unless there are volunteers over there to help?

Philippe

> Duncan
> 
> 
>> 
>> Best, 
>> 
>> Philippe
>> On 08 Sep 2014, at 23:12, G?bor Cs?rdi <csardi.gabor at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> I second this suggestion.
>>> 
>>> One possible complication I see is that if you would like to run the R
>>> code (to display its output for example), then AFAIK you cannot simply
>>> use Jekyll on Github's side, but would need some additional
>>> infrastructure.
>>> 
>>> It might be possible to use Travis (or some other) CI for it, and
>>> avoid installing additional software and/or servers, but anyway, this
>>> requires some care and effort.
>>> 
>>> If you don't want to run the code, then it is very easy, apart from
>>> the (one-time) migration cost.
>>> 
>>> Best,
>>> Gabor
>>> 
>>> On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 4:15 PM, Yihui Xie <xie at yihui.name> wrote:
>>>> I want to make a humble suggestion: migrate the wiki to Github, and
>>>> build the pages using Jekyll+Markdown. That way, I think it will
>>>> attract more volunteers. Simply look how many pull requests that
>>>> Hadley has got for his up-coming book hosted on Github
>>>> (http://adv-r.had.co.nz): https://github.com/hadley/adv-r/pulls I have
>>>> had the experience of maintaining web servers and different wiki/CMS
>>>> systems (including Dokuwiki -- I have even written a PHP plugin for
>>>> it), and eventually I found I could not afford the time on the job of
>>>> a system admin. Now I never do that again, and I just focus on
>>>> maintaining the content. Let the professionals do the hosting and
>>>> compilation service, and my life has become so much better (no more
>>>> worries about security holes and attacks).
>>>> 
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Yihui
>>>> --
>>>> Yihui Xie <xieyihui at gmail.com>
>>>> Web: http://yihui.name
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 12:10 PM, Philippe GROSJEAN
>>>> <Philippe.GROSJEAN at umons.ac.be> wrote:
>>>>> Uwe and all,
>>>>> 
>>>>> I have problems with the R wiki engine. It seems that there is a systematic attack of the R wiki site that produces an overconsumption of the server's CPU, and consequently, my provider did shutdown the whole SciViews.org web site.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Now, it is a bad time for me to work on this (very busy with exams + Master and PhD theses). I am currently looking for an expert in CMS to look at the problem. I don't know when I will be able to solve this and reopen the R Wiki.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Best,
>>>>> 
>>>>> Philippe
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>>>>> ( ( ( ( (    Prof. Philippe Grosjean
>>>>> ) ) ) ) )
>>>>> ( ( ( ( (    Numerical Ecology of Aquatic Systems
>>>>> ) ) ) ) )   Mons University, Belgium
>>>>> ( ( ( ( (
>>>>> ..............................................................
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 06 Sep 2014, at 17:28, Uwe Ligges <ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Rather than asking here, I'd ask Philippe Grosjean directly, hence CCIng.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Best,
>>>>>> Uwe Ligges
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On 06.09.2014 01:17, Andr? Z. D. A. wrote:
>>>>>>> This does not answer you, but if you are looking for something that existed on that wiki, it may help:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> https://web.archive.org/web/20140112055032/http://rwiki.sciviews.org/
>>>>>>> doku.php
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> And that wiki doesn't look like it had a lot of activity:
>>>>>>> https://web.archive.org/web/20140301000000*/http://rwiki.sciviews.org/
>>>> 
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