Help wanted: Trac wiki migration, improve markup conversion code

[Matthias Koeppe]

As the next step in our migration to GitHub, let's migrate the Trac wiki.

I have done a preliminary conversion of the using our conversion script (https://github.com/sagemath/trac-to-github.git) to markdown files, now at https://github.com/sagemath/trac_to_gh/wiki

As you can see, not all markup is converted correctly. Help is welcome with extending our conversion script. (Please send PRs)

Here's how to run the conversion:

$ git clone https://github.com/sagemath/trac-to-github.git  # the conversion script

$ cd trac-to-github

$ ln -s migrate.cfg.sagetracwikionly migrate.cfg

$ git clone https://github.com/sagemath/trac_to_gh.wiki.git wiki  # Target repo

$ ./migrate.py  # writes into wiki/

[kcrisman]

Question (which I am unfortunately unable to assess): Is it possible that Trac ticket link of the form #xyzwv could automatically become links to the same GH issues once all migration is complete?  I'm thinking of pages like https://github.com/sagemath/trac_to_gh/wiki/symbolics - the Trac version of this was quite useful.

[Matthias Koeppe]

For now I would create links with URLs of Trac tickets.

They can be easily rewritten by a script as soon as we have migrated Trac tickets to GH Issues.

[seb....@gmail.com]

For now I would create links with URLs of Trac tickets.

I’ve opened PR 15 for this.

What else is of importance? The headings in the tables, I guess.

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[Christopher Swenson]

I don't know if this is helpful, but I wrote a script to convert the trac wiki to GitHub ~9 years ago: https://github.com/swenson/sagewiki to convert the trac / MoinMoin pages to gollum (github wiki).

[Matthias Koeppe]

Thank you! Merged and updated https://github.com/sagemath/trac_to_gh/wiki

Some more issues that I have spotted:

Sections with fragment names

e.g. `== Legacy sage-trac Account Request == #legacy-account-request`

https://github.com/sagemath/trac_to_gh/wiki#account-names-mapped-to-real-names

Various bad links

e.g. `PageOutline` and `https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/sage-packaging`

on https://github.com/sagemath/trac_to_gh/wiki/Distribution

Various missing links

e.g. [wiki:symbolics/maxima] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolic_computation]

on https://github.com/sagemath/trac_to_gh/wiki/symbolics

On Wednesday, November 16, 2022 at 9:55:38 AM UTC-8 seb....@gmail.com wrote:

[Matthias Koeppe]

Thanks! I've added this link to https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/33725

On first look, it seems this is for converting the moinmoin wiki, not the trac wiki

[seb....@gmail.com]

What else is of importance? The headings in the tables, I guess.

This PR 16, now.

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[seb....@gmail.com]

I opened issue #18 to collect the tasks related to this thread. I asked a few questions there. Please take a look.

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