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KenDown
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Re: BB4W Wiki to be deactivated
« Reply #33 on: Sep 29th, 2014, 7:23pm » |
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Hmmm. I shared Matt's misunderstanding. I am relieved to know that the information on the wiki will not completely disappear, but I did not apprehend that assurance until these recent exchanges.
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rtr2
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Re: BB4W Wiki to be deactivated
« Reply #34 on: Sep 29th, 2014, 9:22pm » |
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on Sep 29th, 2014, 7:23pm, KenDown wrote:| Hmmm. I shared Matt's misunderstanding. |
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Do I conclude that my mental deterioration has reached a stage when I can no longer write understandable English?
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Re: BB4W Wiki to be deactivated
« Reply #35 on: Sep 30th, 2014, 09:30am » |
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Hi Richard,
Well, I thought it was clear!
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KenDown
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Re: BB4W Wiki to be deactivated
« Reply #36 on: Sep 30th, 2014, 6:33pm » |
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Not sure whether it was your failure to write clear English or the blind panic at thought of losing all that treasure the precluded our understanding!
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JGHarston
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Re: BB4W Wiki to be deactivated
« Reply #37 on: Oct 7th, 2014, 10:36pm » |
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on Sep 20th, 2014, 2:02pm, g4bau wrote:I have no idea. Wikitext isn't standardised, so even if there were some means to 'bulk import' the content to another host (371 pages at the last count, plus numerous images) there would no doubt be a lot of editing to do.
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It's sufficiently regular to be programatically converted. I've just spent a few minutes and converted a WikiSpaces page to a Wikia page using this code:
in% =OPENIN("H:\wikispaces.txt")
out%=OPENOUT("H:\wikia.txt")
raw%=FALSE
code%=FALSE
REPEAT
A$=GET$#in%
keep%=TRUE : PROCconvert
IF keep%:BPUT#out%,A$
UNTILEOF#in%
CLOSE#out%
CLOSE#in%
QUIT
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REM //words// -> italics -> ''words''
REM **words** -> bold -> '''words'''
REM [[code format="xxx"]] ... [ [code]] -> indented text
DEFPROCconvert
IF raw%:ENDPROC
IF INSTR(A$,"[[code"):code%=NOT code%:A$="":keep%=FALSE:ENDPROC
IF code%:A$=" "+FNs(A$):ENDPROC
IF LEFT$(A$,2)="> ":A$=": "+MID$(A$,3)
PROCswap("//","''")
PROCswap("**","'''")
ENDPROC
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DEFPROCswap(M$,R$)
REPEAT
A%=INSTR(A$,M$):IF A%:A$=LEFT$(A$,A%-1)+R$+MID$(A$,A%+LENM$)
UNTILA%=0
ENDPROC
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DEFFNs(A$):IFLEFT$(A$,1)=" ":REPEATA$=MID$(A$,2):UNTILLEFT$(A$,1)<>" "
IFRIGHT$(A$,1)=" ":REPEATA$=LEFT$(A$,LENA$-1):UNTILRIGHT$(A$,1)<>" "
=A$
Edit: Wikia has a bulk upload facility, it requires the pages wrapped in XML which is programatically solvable, and I've recently had to so so when my website hosting service vanished. The main remaining issue is the BBC BASIC syntax colouring. I haven't investigated that yet.
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rtr2
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Re: BB4W Wiki to be deactivated
« Reply #38 on: Oct 8th, 2014, 12:55pm » |
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on Oct 7th, 2014, 10:36pm, JGHarston wrote:| It's sufficiently regular to be programatically converted. |
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Your program doesn't convert images or tables, which are used in a few BB4W wiki articles. The image syntax is easily adapted, I think, but the table syntax is less straightforward!
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CharlesB
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Re: BB4W Wiki to be deactivated
« Reply #39 on: Mar 6th, 2015, 10:49pm » |
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If you would give me the information on how to do it, I would like to cover this year's cost for the Wiki. I have looked it a few times and don't understand much at all, but I can see that it is too valuable to lose for the cost of one nice dinner.
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afarlie
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Re: BB4W Wiki to be deactivated
« Reply #40 on: Sep 8th, 2015, 8:56pm » |
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on Oct 8th, 2014, 12:55pm, rtr2 wrote:Your program doesn't convert images or tables, which are used in a few BB4W wiki articles. The image syntax is easily adapted, I think, but the table syntax is less straightforward!
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I've worked somewhat extensively with mediawiki tables, so converting raw HTML tables to Mediawiki wouldn't be too hard.
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