Hi All,<div><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Hi everyone -- thanks for taking a look at our web options this week. Sorry I had to miss the meeting. I've asked Jim to address a couple of the concerns raised by the Oversight Board. </span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<br><From Jim></div><div><br style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">* Re: preserving wiki content</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">We definitely want to preserve as much of the existing wiki as possible, given the huge amount of knowledge captured </span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">there. I've been manually copying wiki pages into the new site that have direct menu links, as well as some of the more </span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">popular wiki pages that aren't linked in the menu.</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">But there's a lot of content! I'm not sure how much progress Steve has made on his automated solution but I did </span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">some research and have a couple of ideas. Ideally, it would be great if someone with admin privileges on the existing </span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Dokuwiki could install the Site Export plugin (</span><a href="https://www.dokuwiki.org/plugin:siteexport" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">https://www.dokuwiki.org/plugin:siteexport</a><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">) and give me a copy of the site </span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">as-is in HTML format. I could then import those pages into the new Drupal site en masse (with some tweaks and hacking, </span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">of course). Is there someone specific I should direct this request to?</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Finally, when it comes to losing revision history -- I agree that's a concern. It's technically possible to figure out a </span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">solution that would move all of the previous wiki revisions into Drupal's "previous revisions" feature for each page -- but </span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">that would be a really nasty and complicated problem and we probably don't have the resources. Instead, I'd suggest we </span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">preserve the existing wiki somewhere for historical/archival purposes and just start fresh using Drupal's content and its </span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">revision system.</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">* Re: replacing Dokuwiki's functionality -- the Drupal content management system is basically built for this. We've </span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">discussed having "contributor" roles for community members that would allow people to add and edit various categories of content:</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">- Articles (short content for How-Tos or Tips and Tricks) </span></div>
<div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">- Blog posts (official community blog posts and maybe official "guest" bloggers)</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">- Book pages (could *eventually* be a much simpler system for managing the official docs)</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">- Pages (standard web pages like the About page - maybe restrict to Oversight Board?)</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">All of these systems have built in revision-management features, built-in rich-text editing, built-in image gallery </span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">integration, and contributors don't need any knowledge of HTML or PHP.</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><End of Jim's contribution></font><br>
<br>If you are game to make the move to the Drupal version of the existing, we are certainly game to help. I think in order to make the cutover though, we need to have support for the people currently contributing content to the site. Once we get going, I think more people will come forward but without the support of existing web contributors, I don't see a point in going forward. Could someone help us with that part?</div>
<div><br></div><div>Lori<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 6:54 AM, Amy Terlaga <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:terlaga@biblio.org" target="_blank">terlaga@biblio.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">Here are the minutes from yesterday’s meeting, including Galen’s review.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt">I will post them to the Evergreen website on Friday.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Amy<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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Assistant Director, User Services<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Bibliomation, Inc.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">32 Crest Road<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Middlebury, CT 06762<u></u><u></u></p>
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<a href="tel:203-577-4070%20x101" value="+12035774070" target="_blank">203-577-4070 x101</a><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.biblio.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">www.biblio.org</span></a><u></u><u></u></p>
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