[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > After much wailing and gnashing of teeth the past couple of days, I managed > to move (most of?) the content from the MacPython wiki to the main Python > wiki (*). All pages were created as subpages of > > http://wiki.python.or/moin/MacPython > > The motivation for this rather hasty move was that the MacPython wiki was > running an ancient version of MoinMoin and got spammed heavily. Because of > its age and vulnerability it was simply too hard to keep up with all the > wiki spammers. So I moved everything. > > I did very little to try and fix up link references. Moin's subpage > references have always befuddled me, and many of the page references were > weirded out to begin with, so there you have it: royal link spaghetti. > > This is where you come in. You can do any number of things to try to > identify and fix problems: > > * Visit http://wiki.python.org/moin/OrphanedPages and see if there are > any MacPython/... pages which are orphaned (hint: there are quite a > few). Then see if you can find an incorrect link which should refer > to the orphaned page. > > * Visit the MacPython pages. Just do a title search for "MacPython" to > locate them. Visit and clean up as appropriate. > > * Everything got pushed down, even home pages. One of three things can > reasonably be done: > 1. Move a home page up if there isn't one at the top level. > 2. Replace an uplevel home page with the MacPython version if the > latter is "better". > 3. Merge the content from the MacPython version into the uplevel home > page. > Instead of performing #2 and #3 yourself, you might send an email to > the person and ask them to do the merge/replace. In any case, this > operation is likely to require some link fiddling. > > * There may also be non-homepage pages at the top level which should be > merged with or replaced by (or replace) the MacPython version. > VisualPython comes to mind. Use your judgement > > * There are lots of unprotected path references in the content, > e.g. /System/Library sitting there looking like a link when it should > probably be {{{/System/Library}}}. > > * There may still be a bit of spam lurking in the pages. I tried to > eliminate all the crap, but I might have missed some. > > * Many pages could use Category references. There are lots of pages > referring to scripting specific Mac applications, home pages and many > code samples. Adding CategoryMac or CategoryAppScript might be > reasonable as well. > > * Use your WikiImagination. There are probably lots of other things > that can be done. I think the MacPython wiki had fallen into a bit of > disrepair, even if you ignore the spam problem, so a little general > TLC would probably help. > > Skip > > (*) Thank goodness for Emacs and Mozex... > _______________________________________________ > Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig > >
I was just looking at the new MacPython pages at the Python wiki--it appears nothing has been done with them since Skip moved them over. I'm thinking this is a terrific opportunity to bring them up to date: would anyone mind if I got started? A lot of this stuff doesn't appear to have been touched for three or four years. Any thoughts about what is most pressing? I have my own interests, and I'm not qualified to edit everything, but I'm open to suggestions. -- Kevin Walzer Code by Kevin http://www.codebykevin.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
