Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GNU Radio Wikis

[Martin Dvh]

Eric Blossom wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 03:21:52PM +0100, Martin Dvh wrote:
> 
>>Eric Blossom wrote:
>>
>>>On Mon, Nov 20, 2006 at 10:35:19AM -0500, Lamar Owen wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>On Saturday 18 November 2006 19:54, Berndt Josef Wulf wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>where did the old GNU Radio Wiki go? I'm looking for the pages containing
>>>>>information on user applications, sample data files, howto files etc. I
>>>>>can't find them on www.gnuradio.org/trac/wiki anymore.
>>>>
>>>>There are a number of pages gone now, like the docs on multiple synced 
>>>>USRP's, 
>>>>syncing clocks, and such.  I did find some bookmarks I had, though, that 
>>>>still work as of this morning:
>>>>http://comsec.com/wiki?UniversalSoftwareRadioPeripheral
>>>>http://comsec.com/wiki?DaughterboardReleaseNotes
>>>>and others reachable from those pages.
>>>
>>>
>>>>I've made local copies of those pages (among others) in case the
>>>>comsec wiki goes away.
>>>
>>>I have complete copies of the comsec wiki pages (the ascii usemod
>>>source format), and some code that does a partial conversion from the
>>>usemod format into the trac format.  It still needs some work, and I'm
>>>not likely to get back to it any time soon.
>>>
>>>If someone would like to complete the conversion, I'd be delighted to
>>>upload the converted files into the new wiki.
>>>
>>>The code that does part of the conversion is here:
>>>
>>>  $ svn co http://gnuradio.org/trac/usemod2trac
>>>
>>>(convert_usemod_to_trac.py is the file that needs work)
> 
> 
>>To get more of the old wiki pages available I extended the 
>>convert_usemod_to_trac.py a bit.
>>It should now handle lists (****) and : better.
>>(my new version is attached)
> 
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> 
>>I also put a few more pages in the new trac wiki, converted with this script.
>>(e.g. USRPClockingNotes and MultiUsrp)
>>
>>
>>The old wiki used to have categories which were handy for finding what you 
>>need.
>>The new Wiki only has a quite bare homepage.
>>You must know you have to click at TitleIndex to see all documents.
>>And then you only get a flat list.
> 
> 
> Yes.  
> 
> You can also search in the box at the top.
> To find all references to CategoryFoo, enter !CategoryFoo
> The explantion point keeps it from returning only the CategoryFoo page.
> 
> 
>>I think it would be a good idea to give the TitleIndex a more prominent place 
>>in the WIKI homepage.
>>(somewhere at the top)
>>It would also be nice to have some Category System.
>>(CategoryInstall, CategorySignals, CategoryExamples, CategoryLinks)
>>Can this be done easy?
> 
> 
> Feel free to make the changes ;)
> 
> It's probably possible to make a new python plugin that does what
> CategoryFoo used to do.  E.g., find all pages that contain
> CategoryFoo.  There's a chance this is already implemented in one of the
> [[magic]] links.  If not, it shouldn't be hard to implement, since we
> know the search primitive is already in there.

Maybe this is what we want:
http://trac-hacks.org/wiki/TagsPlugin
Martin
> Eric
>