[BLU/Officers] Moving off of Wikispaces

[David Kramer]

I'm a huge fan of Foswiki, in part because unlike most wikis that preach 
"Information wants to be free", it has actual functional group and role 
access control.  It's got an incredible collections of plugins.  And 
yes, it can import those

https://foswiki.org/Extensions/MediaWikiToFoswikiContrib

Also see https://foswiki.org/Support/Faq42


On 07/09/2018 01:47 AM, John Abreau wrote:
> I've exported the content, including the various .csv files of
> metadata, in every format they had available.
>
> I placed them on the BLU webserver at
>
>      http://www.blu.org/wikispaces/2018-07-08/
>
> The next question is which wiki software we should use for the new
> wiki. I personally like FosWiki, which used to be called TWiki when I
> used it at Zuken. Can FosWiki easily import any of the wikispaces
> backup formats (DocuWiki, Kwiki, MediaWiki, MoinMoin, PhpWiki,
> TikiWiki, WikiText)?
>
>
> On Sat, Jul 7, 2018 at 1:46 AM, David Kramer <david at thekramers.net> wrote:
>> I'm not sensing any urgency on this, so I'm bringing it up one last time
>> since the wiki is going away in like... 3 weeks.  Even if all we do is
>> export the content before it gets deleted, and not host it anywhere until
>> later, that would be something.  There is content there that is nowhere else
>> that will be completely lost if we take no action.
>>
>> This page shows how to export the wiki.  I don't have an admin login to do
>> it.
>> http://helpcenter.wikispaces.com/customer/en/portal/articles/2920537-classroom-and-free-wikis
>>
>>
>> On 06/18/2018 05:36 AM, John Abreau wrote:
>>> The ancient server that the BLU website runs on is unsuitable for any
>>> additional services like a wiki. Our secondary server died suddenly a
>>> couple weeks ago, and I've ordered a replacement on ebay, which should
>>> arrive by Wednesday. Hopefully I'll be able to start working on it by
>>> Thursday. Once it's operational, we can add a wiki to it.
>>>
>>> The dead machine wouldn't even POST, so I'm hoping that the hard
>>> drives are intact and that just popping them into the new box will
>>> resurrect the server.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>>
>>> On Sun, Jun 17, 2018 at 6:23 PM, Bill Ricker <bill.n1vux at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, Jun 17, 2018 at 5:21 PM, Bill Ricker <bill.n1vux at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> I'm interested since I have same issue with Boston.pm.org
>>>>>
>>>>> Their Export control allows multiple export formats.
>>>>> If you pick a wiki that supports one of the variations of markdown
>>>>> supported in export, life will be easier if saving history (which I am
>>>>> in
>>>>> favor of)
>>>>>
>>>>> Tom M and another BLUnik have been talking some already about options.
>>>>
>>>> ( it was Greg Rundlett that Tom Metro was talking Wiki options with,
>>>> looking
>>>> at both BLU and Boston.pm )
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Bill Ricker
>>>> bill.n1vux at gmail.com
>>>> https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux
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