[Mediawiki-l] Fwd: Overweight Wiki Page

drew einhorn drew.einhorn at gmail.com
Sat Feb 23 16:18:08 UTC 2008


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From: drew einhorn <drew.einhorn at gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 3:46 PM
Subject: Overweight Wiki Page
To: library <Library at lists.laptop.org>, devel at lists.laptop.org


Hi,

 I've got a couple variations on a way overweight wiki page.

 It began as a MS Word file, and it's been through Open Office,
 shell, sed, perl, awk, python and the result is not too shabby.

 Should publish it, but really ought to rewrite it all in python first.

 Is there a way to use the command line to open a .doc file in
 Open Office and save it as html an can add to my polyglot
 assortment of scripts, in the meantime?

 The first version at:

    http://wiki.laptop.org/go/VistA_Monograph_Wiki

 gets:

 WARNING: This page is 246 kilobytes long; some browsers may have
 problems editing pages approaching or longer than 32kb. Please
 consider breaking the page into smaller sections.

 I've been looking at breaking it up and reassembling it using
 templates and there is a partial version at:

    http://wiki.laptop.org/go/WV_VM

 Is there a easy way to transfer all 70 some pieces at once,
 instead of doing them one at a time using

    http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Special:Upload

 But wait that's only for Images not for Pages.

 And when the templates all get reassembled it's going to
 be just as big, if not a little bigger.

 What I really need is a syntactic variant, that builds a
 combined Table of Contents, but does not put all the
 pieces together into a combined wiki page, the links
 in the Table of Contents take you the right spot in
 one of the component pages.

 Does that capability exist, or am I just dreaming?

 --
 Drew Einhorn

Seems like it would only take tweaking a few lines of code.

But where are they?

*  All we want to do is suppress output of the combined page.
*  And, use the original instead of the trasformed link in the TOC.

I'm new at this and don't have the jargon down.  I know I should
have transclude several times, but I am not yet fluent with wikimedia
terminology.  Sorry.


-- 
Drew Einhorn



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