Tag Archives: wiki

MoinMoin sub-page linking is confusing

23 December 2008 – 20:50

MoinMoin supports sub-pages, which is a great thing for organizing the lots of wiki-pages. However, the way you write links violates the principle of least surprise: to specify an absolute link, you simply write the target name (e.g., HelpOnLinking), but to specify a relative link to a sub-page, you prepend the sub-page name with [...]

By Emil Sit | Posted in Rants, Technology | Also tagged | Comments (0)

Migrating from MoinMoin to DokuWiki

2 January 2006 – 18:58

On our webserver, we run a wiki for tracking various administrative bits. Today, we migrated it from MoinMoin 1.3 to DokuWiki. This was not entirely trivial but at the same time not that difficult. The following method doesn’t preserve history, users or attachments, but seems to basically work. The handling of categories could probably use a little [...]

By Emil Sit | Posted in Hacking | Also tagged , | Comments (3)