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   1 Discussion about InterWikiMap maintenance on moin-user list
   2 
   3 #871
   4 
   5 From: "Robert Seeger" <robert.seeger@orsoft.de>
   6 To: <moin-user@lists.sourceforge.net>
   7 Subject: [Moin-user] How to use a wiki page as the shared_intermap in moin 1.3.5?
   8 
   9 Dear MoinMoin Masters,
  10 I'm still in the migration from 1.1 to 1.3.5 and am puzzled with regard to
  11 InterWiki configuration.
  12 
  13 In 1.1. you could easily use shared_intermap to point to a text file that
  14 was also a wiki page, as pages had a static file name an location. This was
  15 described in the HelpMiscellaneous for 1.1.:
  16 
  17   If you want your users to easily add new InterWiki monikers, change your
  18 moin_config.py to contain an entry like this:
  19 
  20   shared_intermap = ['/usr/local/moin/mywiki/data/text/intermap_2etxt']
  21 
  22   Then create a page named intermap.txt (see intermap.txt for an example)
  23 with the following content:
  24   ....
  25 
  26 
  27 This allowed easy maintenance of interwiki definitions in the usual Wiki
  28 way.
  29 As we use InterWiki a lot to make our IntraNet flexible (not only for
  30 various wikis in a farm, but also to bug trackers, databases, file server,
  31 mail repository...) this is a very convenient way.
  32 
  33 Now in 1.3.5 we have a completely different physical storage of the pages
  34 and each revision gets a different file name, so I'm not sure how it is now
  35 possible to point to the newest revision.
  36 
  37 As I've seen the central http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/InterWikiMap I was
  38 wondering if you serve the InterWiki directly from there?
  39 If 'Yes' then I would like to know how you do this by configuration?
  40 If 'No' then I will think about a way to patch this in
  41 wikiutil.resolve_wiki - should not be too difficult. I am thinking alog the
  42 line of
  43 
  44   if filename.startswith("wiki:"):
  45   	#parse page instead of file
  46 
  47 I live in the Windows/NTFS world, so "wiki:" could never be the start of a
  48 valid file name, but how about other os/filesystems? Or should I better
  49 introduce a second config parameter?
  50 
  51 Kind Regards,
  52 
  53 Robert Seeger
  54 
  55 #876
  56 
  57 From: Thomas Waldmann <tw-public@gmx.de>
  58 To: moin-user@lists.sourceforge.net
  59 Subject: Re: [Moin-user] How to use a wiki page as the shared_intermap in
  60  moin 1.3.5?
  61 
  62 Hi Robert,
  63 
  64 > In 1.1. you could easily use shared_intermap to point to a text file
  65 
  66 You can do that with 1.3.5, too, but ...
  67 
  68 > was also a wiki page, as pages had a static file name an location.
  69 
  70 ... this isn't any more the case.
  71 
  72 > This allowed easy maintenance of interwiki definitions in the usual Wiki
  73 > way.
  74 
  75 With 1.3+ you can just use a wget call to the raw action of the 
  76 interwiki wiki page. Maybe using cron.
  77 
  78 > As I've seen the central http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/InterWikiMap I was
  79 > wondering if you serve the InterWiki directly from there?
  80 
  81 We use wget to make the dist version of the file.
  82 
  83 > If 'Yes' then I would like to know how you do this by configuration?
  84 > If 'No' then I will think about a way to patch this in
  85 > wikiutil.resolve_wiki - should not be too difficult. I am thinking alog the
  86 > line of
  87 > 
  88 >   if filename.startswith("wiki:"):
  89 >   	#parse page instead of file
  90 
  91 The point why I didn't already do that, is that using a local file is 
  92 worse for a wiki farm than using a (common) file.
  93 
  94 greetings,
  95 
  96 Thomas
  97 
  98 #877
  99 
 100 From: "Robert Seeger" <robert.seeger@orsoft.de>
 101 To: <moin-user@lists.sourceforge.net>
 102 Subject: Re: [Moin-user] How to use a wiki page as the shared_intermap in moin 1.3.5
 103 Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 15:07:21 +0200
 104 
 105 Hi Thomas,
 106 >
 107 > With 1.3+ you can just use a wget call to the raw action of the
 108 > interwiki wiki page. Maybe using cron.
 109 >
 110 thanks for the info.
 111 I'm an old Windows user who has not come near any Unix prompt since Linux
 112 and the WWW were invented (I used to be an OS/2 freak for many years ;-)),
 113 thus I'm not familiar with wget and don't like cron jobs etc. very much. I
 114 prefer that my edit of a page has immediate effect.
 115 However your mentioning of the raw action and wget pointed me in the right
 116 direction and I tried a different solution inspired by a function in
 117 MoinMoin\scripts\xmlrpc-tools\getmasterpages2 (I think it is yours?). It
 118 seems to work well, but I haven't done much testing yet.
 119 
 120 I created two wiki pages, one as a copy of moinmaster's InterWikiMap and one
 121 with my (Intranet) additions. Then I simply put the http URL with the raw
 122 action in shared_intermap:
 123 
 124     shared_intermap =
 125 ['http://ors-x-know/master13cgi/moin.cgi/InterWikiMap?action=raw','http://or
 126 s-x-know/master13cgi/moin.cgi/InterWikiMapOrs?action=raw']
 127 
 128 
 129 Then I patched wikiutil.resolve_wiki:
 130 
 131         for filename in intermap_files:
 132             if filename and os.path.isfile(filename):
 133                 f = open(filename, "r")
 134                 lines.extend(f.readlines())
 135                 f.close()
 136 #RS
 137             elif filename and filename.startswith("http:"):
 138                 #maybe this is an URL to get a raw page?
 139                 pagedata = urllib.urlopen(filename).read()
 140                 lines.extend(pagedata.split("\n"))
 141 #RS end
 142 
 143 I'm not sure about unicode and encoding issues, but at least page InterWiki
 144 in any wiki of my farm now shows all my InterWiki additions.
 145 Of course your solution using wget is much better from the performance point
 146 of view.
 147 
 148 Thanx and kind regards,
 149 Robert