https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/favicon.ico2015-06-11T14:25:02ZCUNY Graduate Center - Project Tracking SystemCUNY Academic Commons - Feature #4140: Deprecate the wikihttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/4140?journal_id=195822015-06-11T14:25:02ZBoone Gorgesboone@gorg.es
<ul><li><strong>Description</strong> updated (<a title="View differences" href="/journals/19582/diff?detail_id=13591">diff</a>)</li></ul> CUNY Academic Commons - Feature #4140: Deprecate the wikihttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/4140?journal_id=195872015-06-12T11:41:41ZStephen Realsbrnlb@gmail.com
<ul></ul><p>I agree that the arguments for keeping the wiki can be addressed by other means, but can the reasons for keeping the wiki also be addressed by other means? Can we retain the valuable aspects namely the flexibility and the openness?</p>
<p>Would it make any sense to ask the community for input before we decide? I think the fact that the wiki is not well known is an important point. If it were well known, would it get more use? It might be interesting to construct a survey to surface the answer to that question.</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Feature #4140: Deprecate the wikihttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/4140?journal_id=197902015-06-26T20:24:33ZSamantha Raddatz
<ul></ul><p>Thank you for outlining the reasoning and possible depreciation plan, Boone!</p>
<p>It's probably already known that I'm on the side of removing the wiki entirely, mostly due to its statistical lack of use. Also, the navigation real estate could be better used for other, newer features that we'd like to highlight -- like the events calendar, maybe.</p>
<p>I just went through my user testing notes and only have one instance of the wiki being discussed, by someone who noted that they had never noticed it before and weren't sure what it was for. That person brought it up in relation to a question concerning what they thought the distinction was between sites and blogs.</p>
<p>I'd be open to adding a specific question into the next round of testing for this if we'd like to get more input from users. While a survey could be helpful, I'm afraid that summer response rates might be low. I think a combination of the use statistics from Seth and in-person user feedback should sufficiently help us to make this decision.</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Feature #4140: Deprecate the wikihttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/4140?journal_id=209232015-09-22T03:04:43ZMatt Goldmattgold@gmail.com
<ul><li><strong>Status</strong> changed from <i>New</i> to <i>Assigned</i></li><li><strong>Assignee</strong> set to <i>Stephen Real</i></li></ul><p>At the last few team and subcommittee meetings, we all agreed that we should deprecate and eventually remove the wiki. Let's use this ticket to organize that work.</p>
<p>To start, we will need to move selected content from the wiki -- like the CUNY Digital Humanities Resource Guide -- from the wiki to another space -- probably a blog.</p>
<p>We may want to contact creators of other content on the wiki to see whether they want our help in moving content.</p>
<p>We will also have to reframe our help workflow, since much of it is based on the wiki FAQs.</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Feature #4140: Deprecate the wikihttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/4140?journal_id=220062015-12-11T20:59:12ZBoone Gorgesboone@gorg.es
<ul><li><strong>Target version</strong> changed from <i>Future release</i> to <i>1.10</i></li></ul> CUNY Academic Commons - Feature #4140: Deprecate the wikihttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/4140?journal_id=221782016-01-06T17:33:04ZStephen Realsbrnlb@gmail.com
<ul><li><strong>File</strong> <a href="/attachments/2562">wiki sunset plan.xlsx</a> <a class="icon-only icon-download" title="Download" href="/attachments/download/2562/wiki%20sunset%20plan.xlsx">wiki sunset plan.xlsx</a> added</li></ul><p>I am attaching an Excel spreadsheet that contains a draft list of tasks for deprecating the wiki. I can add dates after we agree on the tasks. I am going to close the the ticket that duplicates this effort.</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Feature #4140: Deprecate the wikihttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/4140?journal_id=221822016-01-07T05:43:37ZMatt Goldmattgold@gmail.com
<ul></ul><p>Thanks for moving forward on this, Stephen! Perhaps you and Boone (with Scott, if he can) can set up a call to work through this list.</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Feature #4140: Deprecate the wikihttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/4140?journal_id=221922016-01-07T17:41:32Zscott vothscott.voth@verizon.net
<ul></ul><p>Hi Steve - one other thing to remember is that the Commons FAQ page is still on the wiki. We should probably see if the plugin we have on the Commons is good enough to use, and make plans to migrate the content to WP.</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Feature #4140: Deprecate the wikihttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/4140?journal_id=223362016-01-20T19:39:16ZBoone Gorgesboone@gorg.es
<ul><li><strong>File</strong> <a href="/attachments/2609">wiki-documents.csv</a> <a class="icon-only icon-download" title="Download" href="/attachments/download/2609/wiki-documents.csv">wiki-documents.csv</a> added</li><li><strong>Assignee</strong> changed from <i>Stephen Real</i> to <i>scott voth</i></li></ul><p>The attachment wiki-documents.csv contains a list of Wiki pages, along with some info about them: date created, info about creator, date last edited, info about last editor, revision count. I've tried to edit out the noise (eg, file uploads and auto-generated Categories) but there may still be some in there. Scott, can you spend a few minutes with the document to see how it looks to you? If I can provide more info that would be helpful, I'm happy to do so.</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Feature #4140: Deprecate the wikihttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/4140?journal_id=226742016-02-07T21:55:55Zscott vothscott.voth@verizon.net
<ul></ul><p>Hi Boone - I spent some time looking these over. The list seems also to contain category links - so there are probably 100 or so less pages that the spreadsheet indicates, but still quite a number. I did some research about export/import from Media Wiki to WordPress - but came to a dead end on that idea.</p>
<p>But then I found a company that will migrate our whole wiki site to WordPress for $58.35. I did a demo - and the results look great EXCEPT they only did the titles. I wrote to them to see if they can provide an example of what the content would look like. Can you check this out and see what you think? <a class="external" href="https://www.cms2cms.com/">https://www.cms2cms.com/</a> It seems like (if it works) it would simplify this task greatly. I think you would still be able to create the redirects from old URLs?</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Feature #4140: Deprecate the wikihttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/4140?journal_id=226812016-02-08T03:30:24ZBoone Gorgesboone@gorg.es
<ul><li><strong>Assignee</strong> changed from <i>scott voth</i> to <i>Boone Gorges</i></li></ul><p>Thank you for having a look, Scott.</p>
<p>Based on your comment - "quite a number" - I'm assuming you think we should do both of the following:</p>
<p>(a) move everything first, and contact people about the move afterward (instead of contacting them first to find out whether they'd like things moved - there are too many pages for this)<br />(b) move things in an automated fashion, since it's a large amount of content (we'd discussed the possibility of doing it manually)</p>
<p>Is this correct?</p>
<p>Thanks also for the research regarding cms2cms. I've seen this service before. To be honest, I don't know that I trust this kind of thing to a service. Not that they don't do a good job - they probably do - but I want to be sure that things are moved over in a way that's sensitive to our server environment, our redirect requirements, etc. Since I've already written the code to create a list of extant wiki pages, most of the work is actually done. It's only a small task at this point to loop through them all, make an HTTP request for each, parse out the page content, and then convert it to a WordPress page.</p>
<p>I'll work this week on writing this tool. Maybe I can get it up and running on cdev, so that we can begin testing. I'm assigning the ticket to myself as I work on this.</p>
<p>On a related note. Scott, do you have any suggestions for what the new WP-based wiki site should look like? Any themes you have in mind - either existing on the Commons, or something we could install fresh? Would it be best to go with something simple, like a theme based on Twenty Sixteen? Should we try to make it look kinda-sorta like the old wiki?</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Feature #4140: Deprecate the wikihttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/4140?journal_id=226862016-02-08T22:41:32ZBoone Gorgesboone@gorg.es
<ul></ul><p>Hi all -</p>
<p>I have run an initial import of our wiki content into a Commons site. <a class="external" href="http://commons.gc.cuny.edu">http://commons.gc.cuny.edu</a> Stephen and Scott, you are both admins on the site. If anyone else wants access while we're working, let me know and I will add you.</p>
<p>Here's an example of a page: <a class="external" href="http://wiki.commons.gc.cuny.edu/omeka_basics/">http://wiki.commons.gc.cuny.edu/omeka_basics/</a> All existing pages are available - translate URLs of the form</p>
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http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/wiki/index.php/THIS_IS_THE_PAGE_TITLE
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<p>to</p>
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http://wiki.commons.gc.cuny.edu/THIS_IS_THE_PAGE_TITLE
</pre>
<p>You'll see that I've pulled over images. Unfortunately, these images continue to be hyperlinks, and they're all broken. I'll try to fix this.</p>
<p>Tables of contents work, though could possibly use some styling work.</p>
<p>I've preserved the author information, date created, and last edited date. See eg <a class="external" href="https://wiki.commons.gc.cuny.edu/wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=page&paged=2">https://wiki.commons.gc.cuny.edu/wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=page&paged=2</a>. This data is not displayed anywhere on the frontend. Suggestions welcome.</p>
<p>Scott, you mentioned that there were some category pages in the initial export. I see that there were also some media-specific pages, which don't have any content. If you can identify any naming patterns that would help me to sift through these items programatically, please let me know.</p>
<p>I've got more work to do here, but I wanted to get this in your hands so you could start thinking about what the content might look like in a WP context.</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Feature #4140: Deprecate the wikihttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/4140?journal_id=226872016-02-08T22:45:02ZMatt Goldmattgold@gmail.com
<ul></ul><p>Wow -- fantastic progress, all. Thanks so much.</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Feature #4140: Deprecate the wikihttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/4140?journal_id=226882016-02-09T01:07:57Zscott vothscott.voth@verizon.net
<ul></ul><p>This is really cool! Not to get greedy - but it would be great if we can figure out how to import the categories. The category pages we can probably skip, since WP does a pretty good job of displaying pages in a category (I think it needs a plugin though). I did not see any naming pattern difference between the category pages and regular pages, and it was confusing to me initially. Then I realized they were the same as what the category (i.e. tag) cloud pulls. Would that help you? There are also sub categories - to add to the challenge.</p>
<p>I like the simplicity of the theme in 2012 - good to start there. I can look for other wiki-like themes - but they might imply that this is an active wiki - but I wonder if it might be possible to make the site somewhat dynamic by a button for members to request edit permissions, and keep the site alive?</p>
<p>Great work!</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Feature #4140: Deprecate the wikihttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/4140?journal_id=226922016-02-09T19:13:45ZBoone Gorgesboone@gorg.es
<ul><li><strong>Assignee</strong> changed from <i>Boone Gorges</i> to <i>scott voth</i></li></ul><p>Thanks for having a look, Scott!</p>
<p>I neglected to move the categories first time around - whoops. I just did a re-import that parsed out and added them as appropriate.</p>
<p>From what I could see, there was no easy way to gauge based on the wiki page output whether a category was nested (subcategories). So currently the hierarchy is flat. My suggestion is that we manually fix the hierarchies - it can only be a few dozen categories.</p>
<p>Scott, can I ask you to look into the following tasks, as next steps?</p>
<p>1. Review the Categories, and reorganize in hierarchy as needed <a class="external" href="https://wiki.commons.gc.cuny.edu/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category&post_type=page">https://wiki.commons.gc.cuny.edu/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category&post_type=page</a><br />2. Identify and delete any obvious test pages, category pages, and other stuff that shouldn't be there <a class="external" href="https://wiki.commons.gc.cuny.edu/wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=page">https://wiki.commons.gc.cuny.edu/wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=page</a> I think you can probably see just by looking over the titles that some of the pages are sandboxes, etc, and should be sent to the trash<br />3. Make some concrete suggestions about how to modify the existing Twenty Twelve theme about how to make it display the content better. For example, the categories are not currently displayed anywhere (because they're technically Pages, and Twenty Twelve doesn't put categories in the page template). Where would they go? What would you like to see in the sidebar (feel free to make those changes yourself)? Anything we can do with color schemes, branding, etc to make it integrate better with the rest of the site? Maybe something like what you've done with the Codex?</p>
<p>Regarding "active" wiki - I would say that we do not want to have a public way for people to request access in an automated way, but it's a good idea to have something somewhere on the page - maybe an About page, or maybe in the footer - that explains how the site holds all the content migrated from MediaWiki, and gives info about how to get in touch with the team to edit/remove content.</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Feature #4140: Deprecate the wikihttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/4140?journal_id=226932016-02-10T13:31:09Zscott vothscott.voth@verizon.net
<ul></ul><p>Will do. I really looks great!</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Feature #4140: Deprecate the wikihttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/4140?journal_id=238372016-05-13T20:02:17ZStephen Realsbrnlb@gmail.com
<ul></ul><p>Scott,<br />Please check out Boone's latest update on this ticket. If you have done the things he asked, I think we are just about done. Once these items are done, we need to do the following in a coordinated "deployment."</p>
<p>1) Create a hero slide and news post that the Wiki is no more, explaining the details<br />2) Remove the Wiki tab and add the Events Calendar tab</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Feature #4140: Deprecate the wikihttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/4140?journal_id=238682016-05-18T15:19:38ZBoone Gorgesboone@gorg.es
<ul><li><strong>Assignee</strong> changed from <i>scott voth</i> to <i>Stephen Real</i></li></ul><p>Excited to move forward with this. As noted on yesterday's call, it's in the 2.0 milestone, but we can make the move sooner if we are ready.</p>
<p>Have we decided on the publicity that will surround this move? Two possible categories:</p>
<p>1. An email to content owners to let them know that we've moved stuff. I imagine it'd take the form: Here's what we've done; here's why; here's what's happened to your stuff (maybe personalized? though this might be too difficult); here's what you need to do (mostly nothing, unless you have content you want edited or removed, in which case we can add you to the site as an Author). Someone will need to draft this. I can pull a list of email addresses.<br />2. More general publicity - hero slide, news post, etc. This is what Steve suggests above. I'm not sure that this is really <strong>necessary</strong>, but it's a nice way to document the process - we could frame the post as a narrative of how use of the Commons has changed over time, and how we try to respond to it. I think this is optional, and doesn't have to correspond with the migration itself.</p>
<p>It's possible that we do only one of these. I don't really have a preference.</p>
<p>Technical steps:<br />a. .htaccess redirects. This should include single posts and category posts.<br />b. Category name translation (underscores to hyphens. WP handles this for post slugs, but not for category slugs)</p>
<p>I've written code that handles both a and b: <a class="external" href="https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/cac/commit/eab48bde8d7a477e3d24c9ddbb07eab9dc8b9031">https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/cac/commit/eab48bde8d7a477e3d24c9ddbb07eab9dc8b9031</a></p>
<p>As Steve notes above, the final step at launch will be to change the Wiki tab to Events, which will point to commons.gc.cuny.edu/events/.</p>
<p>I think we just need some decisions about publicity, and then we can schedule the move. Assigning to Steve to handle the coordination - once we're ready, hot-potato it back to me.</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Feature #4140: Deprecate the wikihttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/4140?journal_id=238692016-05-18T15:34:26ZStephen Realsbrnlb@gmail.com
<ul></ul><p>Do we have the email addresses of all the content owners? If so, I think we should send them a notification as a courtesy. Once I know that we have the addresses, I can draft the message.</p>
<p>I like the idea of a news post nominally about the demise of the wiki, but including some useful tips and/or narrative about the evolution of the Commons. I will see if I can't get that in the hopper, as well.</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Feature #4140: Deprecate the wikihttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/4140?journal_id=238702016-05-18T15:44:42ZBoone Gorgesboone@gorg.es
<ul></ul><p>Yes, I will be able to pull the email address list, if we decide it's something we want to do.</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Feature #4140: Deprecate the wikihttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/4140?journal_id=238802016-05-20T14:13:58ZBoone Gorgesboone@gorg.es
<ul></ul><p>We're drafting an email notice to content authors at <a class="external" href="http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/cac-community-team-project-planning/docs/email-notice-to-owners-of-wiki-content/">http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/cac-community-team-project-planning/docs/email-notice-to-owners-of-wiki-content/</a></p> CUNY Academic Commons - Feature #4140: Deprecate the wikihttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/4140?journal_id=239772016-05-30T16:29:44ZBoone Gorgesboone@gorg.es
<ul></ul><p>I believe this technical parts of the work are done. A couple clean-up tasks as I deployed the changes:</p>
<p>- Use 301 rather than 302 redirects (302 was for testing) <a class="external" href="https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/cac/commit/47b373fe7a3927bccf9a79633cd7406ded2c48b3">https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/cac/commit/47b373fe7a3927bccf9a79633cd7406ded2c48b3</a><br />- Don't run the MW logout routine on WP logout <a class="external" href="https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/cac/commit/b56b742ed5a95c8f868aca6739271d3ba879b1c6">https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/cac/commit/b56b742ed5a95c8f868aca6739271d3ba879b1c6</a><br />- Change 'Wiki' to 'Events' on the upper-left "CUNY Academic Commons" toolbar dropdown <a class="external" href="https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/cac/commit/cee407bd6a6dc1d661a19997d760607540b07067">https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/cac/commit/cee407bd6a6dc1d661a19997d760607540b07067</a></p>
<p>The change from 'Wiki' to 'Events' on the main site nav was made in the database. Developers: to make your installations match, go to Dashboard > Appearance > Menus and change the Wiki custom link to Events with the proper URL. I've made this change on the production site as well as cdev.</p>
<p>Stephen, Sarah - I think we're ready to pull the trigger on any remaining publicity.</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Feature #4140: Deprecate the wikihttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/4140?journal_id=239782016-05-30T19:17:53ZSarah Morgano
<ul></ul><p>I just published the news blog post.</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Feature #4140: Deprecate the wikihttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/4140?journal_id=239792016-05-30T21:18:59ZBoone Gorgesboone@gorg.es
<ul><li><strong>Status</strong> changed from <i>Assigned</i> to <i>Resolved</i></li></ul><p>Thanks, Sarah!</p>
<p>I think we are done here. I'll keep the wiki database and codebase in place for the time being, in case we discover anything that hasn't been migrated properly. At some point in the future, these things can be cleaned up. If anyone notices glitches in the migrated content, please open a separate ticket.</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Feature #4140: Deprecate the wikihttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/4140?journal_id=239822016-05-31T15:16:45ZMatt Goldmattgold@gmail.com
<ul></ul><p>Thank you and congrats, all!</p>