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!
I’m hoping there is a way to turn this into a more automated workflow, as we want mediawiki pages from non-technical types who have enough trouble just registering an account.
Obviously we could do this within Discourse, but our mediawiki has been online since ~2007 and has a longstanding following, so no one wants to mess with it. But, it is a bit difficult / long in the tooth for drafting documentation in 2020.
I’m not fully sure on next steps. But, this would be a big help to our pool of volunteers! So far I’ve discovered this restful api version of Pandoc, or the hosted demo linked above.
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. Hope this makes sense as a problem I hope to address. If not, don’t want to waste your time.
I’ve been very interested in integrating Discourse with our Mediawiki installation to add user friendliness, but I notice a couple attempts to use Discourse for Discussions in mediawiki, have not worked out.
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.
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 to please everyone here. I have had similar wiki/Discourse discussions in the past (not least at Leigh Hackspace, which is something I founded back in 2015, and where we once hosted Mitch Altman, one of Noisebridge’s founding team) and a bidirectional sync might work.
Markdown pasted to DIscourse with specific category and tags.
Hoping to streamline this process.
If possible, this would be awesome. Both mediawiki and Discourse and useful tools. It is great to have important information in the wiki, plus discussion in the forum. Obviously, it is ideal to drop url links so people can easily page between both tools.