Continuing the discussion from Converting links from raw markdown to HTML : I’m for Pandoc integration. I see there is this web app available with a REST API . Looking for a way to automate drafting out mediawiki documentation from Discourse. Currently I’ll drag and drop markdown into Try pandoc!

Could you describe the workflow in more detail?

Yes, we have a longstanding mediawiki installation: Making sure you're not a bot! our Discourse forum: Discuss And this hosted version of Pandoc we’ve encouraged users to use for quickly turning Markdown into the more esoteric mediawiki markup. I’m hoping there is a way to turn this into a more a…

I’m still not clear where the data is coming from, but it’s going to your wiki? What screens and controls might be involved? What discretion does the user have about where it is going?

Hmm, excellent questions. I’m not totally sure. Perhaps the process of drafting out mediawiki pages could be best served through the Custom Wizard plugin. The issue is volunnteers are having too tough a time writing mediawiki pages in 2020. It is something people master 100% or are terrible at. …

If I were you I would mock up the screens, controls and process before pursuing further. Don’t worry about the solution for now.

If you don’t like the old software, How about migrating the wiki to discourse?

It doesn’t matter if I like it. The wiki has lived for 12 years and is beloved. Just needs some love. :heart_decoration:

So you want a way of publishing a Post from Discourse to your Wikimedia instance via a Pandoc translation of Markdown into HTML, is that right? Sounds very interesting. But also sounds like something Zapier might solve? PS I get why you might want to stay on the Wiki software. It’s a robust stan…

[image] merefield: So you want a way of publishing a Post from Discourse to your Wikimedia instance via a Pandoc translation of Markdown into HTML, is that right? Right now I’m just copying the mediawiki text into Pandoc, then posting the converted Markdown into a Discourse post by hand. It …

[image] sunjam: copying the mediawiki text into Pandoc, then posting the converted Markdown into a Discourse Are you drafting in Discourse and publishing to Mediawiki? Or are you taking content from Mediawiki to publish it in Discourse? Some kind of Mediawiki Sync plugin might be a nice way…

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sunjam (james.network) July 31, 2020, 3:19pm 10

Right now I’m just copying the mediawiki text into Pandoc, then posting the converted Markdown into a Discourse post by hand. It is tedious, but works.

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