On Saturday 7. May 2016 12.34.01 Thomas Doczkal wrote:
On 05/03/2016 08:55 PM, Paul Boddie wrote:
P.S. I'm not sure what you'll do for content migration when you get to the pages on the wiki that used the ImprovedTableParser, but I recommend installing it again if necessary.
One of those pages is the "Hardware Vendors" page: https://wiki.fsfe.org/Migrated/Hardware%20Vendors
During our regular meeting in Frankfurt we discovered this broken page. Unfortunately the old Wiki seems to be cleared so the page is not available in "readable" format right now.
Thanks for looking into this!
The parser used is this one:
https://moinmo.in/ParserMarket/ImprovedTableParser
It also needs some libraries that were developed for Moin extensions:
http://hgweb.boddie.org.uk/MoinSupport
The reason for developing such a parser is that Moin's tables are not very nice to edit once they have column data above a certain size. Moreover, the standard Moin table only supports limited formatting, unlike MediaWiki's tables (although MediaWiki's syntax is not as nice, generally).
As for that page itself, it probably needs another update or two. A recent discussion on this list indicated a level of interest in open hardware platforms, and some of the vendors sell open hardware as well as the usual products running Free Software, so perhaps there's some interest in maintaining a reliable resource about such topics.
Paul