[IndiChix] Fwd: Content retrival : Wiki content needed

[Sriram Narayanan]

Resending to the list because I didn't want a large plain text file to
go out to each and every member of the list.

I have a copy of the contents, and anyone else interested in getting
the content the same way can simply follow the instructions given
below.

I'm sending the contents to Vidya, Hassath, Radha, Gayathri, and
Kadambari. Anyone else interested in this file, please send me a
direct email.

-- Ram
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Sriram Narayanan <sriramnrn at gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 6:20 PM
Subject: Re: [IndiChix] Content retrival : Wiki content needed
To: Mailing list for LinuxChix-India chapter <indichix at linuxchix.org>


On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 8:35 AM, Gayathri Swaminathan
<gayathri.swa at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi:
>
> On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Sriram Narayanan <sriramnrn at gmail.com> wrote:
>> For some testing, I tried to create a user account at the LinuxChix
>> India wiki, but I find that I'm not able to create an account -
>> There's no "create new account" link/button which actually lets me
>> create an account (Never mind what the main page says).
>>
>> Gayathri: Could you extract the content of the wiki such that we can
>> work on it together and import it into another mediawiki installation
>> ?
>>
>> Once you're done, could you post the instructions on how you did this
>> to the list so that the rest of us learn ?
>>
>
> To get an account, I emailed: indichix at linuxchix.org and Runa created
> me an account.

Ok, I see the "Need Help?" link here :
http://linuxchix.org.in/wiki/index.php/Main_Page#Joining_Us

To me, this whole account creation exercise is a smell and I think
with a move to a new environment with admins who're active should make
considerable difference.

>
> The right way to get content for the existing wiki (linuxchix.org.in)
> would be to bundle Apache/ Mysql DB that goes with it and migrate the
> site. As this seems moot now,  I was able to use "wget"  and get the
> entire site:
>
> <snip>
>
> #wget -r http://linuxchix.org.in
>
> </snip>
>
> This means cleaning/ structuring html pages and then importing content
> to the new wiki. Would this work?
>
>

This would require a lot of grunt work, but would work.

I read a bit of the wikimedia documentation, and figured out how to
ask the mediawiki tool to give the complete text contents (along with
history) of the entire linuxchix.org.in website. This doesn't include
the images, which I'll take next.

<steps>

My close friend and colleague Ketan (www.swtbot.org) helped put
together the following list of pages using the xpather firefox plugin
:


All pages
120907Logs
120907Summary
210907Logs
210907Summary
Abeda Inamdar College Session
AboutLinuxChixIndia
Artwork
Barkha
BugSquashing
Chapter Name Suggestions
CityMeetBangalore
CityMeetChennai
CityMeetDashboard
CityMeetDelhi
CityMeetMumbai
CityMeetMumbai 20080105
CityMeetPune
CityMeetPune 20080112
CityMeetPune 20080614
Community Portal
Current events
Dgplug Horizon Poster
Documentation
EducationProjects
FLOSS Message Promotion
FOSSEvents
Foss.in 2007
FossinBoFSessionNotes
GSoc 2008
Games
Getting started
Getting started Page
Getting started Page (link)
Gnunify08
Indradg
JoinIndiChix
KDEGujaratiLocalization
KannadaLocalisation
KernelandLSB
KnowledgeBase
LC-IN Administrative Tasks
LC-Labs
LCBoFFossin2007
LCGoalsTalkpage
LCPeopleTalkpage
LCTasksTalkpage
Linux
LinuxChix India
LinuxChix India Contacts
ListEtiquette
Localisation
Main Page
MeetingsPage
MentoringPrograms
MobileDevices
Netiquette
NewBieCorner
PastEventsofLCIN
Press
PritiPatil
ProgrammingLanguages
PromotionandOutreach
PunePythonSession
RunaBhattacharjee
Site structure
Speakers Corner
TaskPage7
Volunteer
Volunteer for LinuxChix-India

Paste that list here : http://linuxchix.org.in/wiki/index.php/Special:Export/

And click the button on that page, and you get an XML file which can
be imported into Mediawiki. I've tried this successfully :) We have
all content in place now :)

</steps>

I've attached the xml export with this mail.

I've set up a local mediawiki instance at office following these
instructions, and can confirm that everything is imported.

Anyone can try this out using the instructions given here
(http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Installing_MediaWiki_on_Ubuntu_7.10_via_GUI_and_Synaptic)
I installed via the command line (sudo apt-get install mysql-server
mysql-admin mediawiki).

All that we now way for is :
- me to save the images, and send an archive to the list (we need to
prepare for the truck factor too).
- Vidya collates the list of available hosts.

> --
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-- Ram