Forum: Instiki – Topic: Bugs

Fixed. Thanks!

Forum: Instiki – Topic: Bugs

In the process of migrating my wiki from Textile to Markdown I think I found a bug:

The following snippet of text: punto!). was converted by pandoc as punto![]().. The latter text blows the editing page with the error “NameError in WikiController#save”. Step to reproduce

1. create a new empty page
2. write punto![](). (without apexes)
3. save hitting the “Submit” button

Forum: Instiki – Topic: Migration from Textile

Thanks for your quick reply, you gave me a good idea. Actually I didn’t think about the history, and luckily I don’t need to keep it. I’m the only user of my wiki, but since it was started long ago, the pages format wasn’t fully coherent, so a completely automated migration wasn’t possible, I also needed the old wiki running, as a reference. So in the end this is what I did:

1. exported as you suggested the whole wiki, the result is a convenient “file per page”
2. converted the files with the command pandoc file.textile -o file.markdown in a BASH for cycle
3. moved existing installation from ~/instiki to ~/instikiold
4. installed a new, empty, instance in ~/instiki
5. launched the two instances together, on different ports
6. opened all files in jedit to correct in a single shot all repetitive errors
7. imported every page from file, one by one (starting with the smaller files!)

It took a lot of time to clean everything up, but in the end all the pages were moved successfully.

Forum: Instiki – Topic: Migration from Textile

I have an installation of Instiki, installed very long ago, and always kept up to date. I find it very useful because it runs completely in the user home, so it can be easily synced across several computers. I don’t need to write formulas to the wiki, just text and snippets of code.

Since the beginning the chosen markup was Textile (maybe was the default back then…), now I see on the web that Textile is almost unused and I wish to migrate to Markdown.

Is it there a best practice for this kind migration? Was it tested before?

Do I need to write a script that reads the sqlite database and feeds the pages to pandoc and then back to the database before changing the markup setup in “edit web”, or it’s safe to switch from one markup dialect to the other?

Forum: Instiki – Topic: Instiki website

Ok, I’ve stumbled upon it while I was looking for informations about textile, but let me open another post, it’s a completely different topic.

Forum: Instiki – Topic: Instiki website

Hi all, there are several pages on the site http://www.instiki.org/ that need attention:

• both links in the export page are not working, HTML with “Internal Error An application error occurred while processing your request.” and “No webpage was found for the web address: http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/wiki/instiki/export_markup” for Markup

• the three sandboxes links (http://instiki.org/textilesandbox/show/HomePage http://instiki.org/markdownsandbox/show/HomePage and http://instiki.org/rdocsandbox/show/HomePage) give an internal error

• the following page http://instiki.org/show/Textile is nonsense/spam

• the homepage is spammed too: http://instiki.org/show/HomePage (rev 240)

• the News in homepage (http://instiki.org/show/HomePage) are not up to date