[Biopython-dev] Experimenting with migrating wiki to GitHub pages

[Peter Cock]

Dear all,

Those of you who have contributed to the Biopython wiki
in the past, and who have a GitHub account, might have
spotted this new repository:

https://github.com/peterjc/peterjc.github.io

I am experimenting with migrating the MediaWiki content
on biopython.org into MarkDown files (using pandoc, and
saving each wiki revision as a git commit), for display as
a webpage via GitHub Pages using Jekyll.

https://github.com/peterjc/mediawiki_to_git_md

The mapping from wiki user accounts to GitHub accounts
was done by hand. Please email me directly if I made a
mistake with your contributions. If I continue this effort I
will be re-running the migration script in future.

This conversion may not prove practical, and is not yet pretty
or even functional, but potentially could one day ofter an
alternative approach - and means we (the OBF) wouldn't
need to maintain a server running MediaWiki and Apache.

Note I'm not going to make any sudden changes to the
current biopython.org site without any warning or discussion.

Regards,

Peter