[Biojava-dev] ongoing release - mediawiki woes

[Spencer Bliven]

Migrating sounds like a long-term solution. For now, I'm going to try to
get logins working for Biojava and try out the oauth2 plugin. It's not
great timing with the release today, but I think it had better be done. If
I have to switch back to password logins then I'll disable new user
accounts temporarily.

-Spencer

On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 10:30 AM, Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com>
wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 5:03 AM, Andreas Prlic <andreas at sdsc.edu> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Jose and I worked on the release today. Everything went well with Maven
> > Central, and the code is already available from there.  However it turns
> out
> > that the MediaWiki instance on biojava.org is fundamentally broken and
> it is
> > almost impossible to login (both Google and Yahoo open id login are
> broken).
> > I managed to login just by chance (long story). I am in the process of
> > updating the wiki pages. We will finalize and write the announce email
> > tomorrow (Friday).
> >
> > The bottom line is, we will need to migrate away from MediaWiki soon,
> since
> > it is not maintainable. I suggest we move to GitHub markdown pages.
> >
> https://help.github.com/articles/using-a-custom-domain-with-github-pages/
> >
> > Andreas
>
> Hello Andreas & the BioJava developers,
>
> I said much of this directly on root-l, but it is worth stating openly as
> for any migration more eyes are especially welcome. I have deliberately
> CC'd the cross-project open-bio-l mailing list (a public list) plus also
> root-l (our closed mailing list for SysAdmin stuff).
>
> Brian Osborne has been driving the BioPerl Wiki migration to GitHub
> pages, using pandoc to migrate to markdown, with a lot of fine tuning:
>
> http://bioperl.github.io/
> https://github.com/bioperl/bioperl.github.io
>
> Presumably at some point www.bioperl.org will point there instead, perhaps
> after all the non-BioPerl content like file format pages has been moved to
> wikipedia or elsewhere - anyone curious can follow up on the BioPerl-l
> mailing list.
>
> Before that I had started looking at migrating MediaWiki to GitHub pages
> using pandoc for the markdown conversion while preserving the history:
>
> https://github.com/peterjc/mediawiki_to_git_md/
>
> There are a few niggles like dealing with categories and sub-folders
> messing up the URL mapping, which meant this isn't yet good enough
> to use for the www.open-bio.org wiki (most of the BOSC URLs break),
> nor for the www.bioperl.org wiki (lots of templates and other advanced
> features) but looks more promising for the simpler biopython.org wiki.
>
> https://OBF.github.io
> https://github.com/OBF/OBF.github.io
>
> https://biopython.github.io
> https://github.com/biopython/biopython.github.io
>
> Once the migration is working nicely preserving functional content,
> I plan to copy all the nice styling work from Brian to make the pages
> look nice.
>
> If you would like to try this migration script on the BioJava wiki, please
> let me know - You'll need the XML dump from MediaWiki which Andreas
> can probably get - if not I could, or another root-l mailing list
> volunteer.
>
> Regards,
>
> Peter
> Biopython developer, OBF secretary, BOSC co-chair, etc.
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