[OWW-SC] Fwd: Transfer Private to Public?

[Jason Kelly]

I could imagine people wanting to bluk-move pages.  E.g. I publish a
paper and then want to move everything with the prefix "ProjectName:"
onto OWW in one shot - it could be a bunch of pages.  If I hadn't put
a prefix I assume that would be harder to do automatically?

jason

On 2/7/07, Austin Che <austin at csail.mit.edu> wrote:
>
>     I think the best method depends on how many pages people will want
>     to move and how they want to move it. Putting pages to be moved
>     under a common prefix isn't necessary for moving as we can easily
>     tack on a prefix during the move. But if it helps to recognize
>     what should be moved, then that's fine. If it's just going to be
>     single pages to be moved by hand, it doesn't matter much at this
>     point whatever they do. If the pages are going to be moved once
>     and that's it, it'd be much simpler than if pages will be moved
>     from private to public, continued to be edited on the private, and
>     then later moved again to public. I'm not sure about tagging with
>     categories but if that helps them figure out what should or
>     shouldn't be moved, then they can go for it. Just that those pages
>     after being moved will still have those categories on them and
>     won't make sense on the public site. Basically, it really depends
>     on how they intend to use it.
>
>     I think for most people, bulk moving of pages from private to
>     public is unlikely (other than maybe moving the entire
>     wiki). Moving an entire wiki is straightforward and nothing
>     special should be done with the private wiki. For moving single
>     pages at a time manually, I can think of also nothing that can be
>     done now with the page to make it easier to move at a later
>     time. Thus, I'd personally go with doing nothing special right now
>     unless they have special needs that they forsee having.
>
> > How about making a template like {{togopublic}} that sticks
> >
> > [[Category:togopublic]] and
> >
> > <!-- This page will go public soon -->
> >
> > on the page? It's easier than a namespace IMHO because they can go to the
> > aforementioned category to see a list of everything that's due to be
> > moved, plus the pages can be put in whatever namespace they want.
> >
> > On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Jason Kelly wrote:
> >
> >> Some use-case information from the private wiki trial (see below).
> >>
> >> Also, austin / ilya do you have a suggestion for how they should set
> >> things up to best support moving pages from private->public down the
> >> line?
> >>
> >> thanks,
> >> jason
> >>
> >> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> >> From: Steven J. Koch <sjkoch at unm.edu>
> >> Date: Feb 7, 2007 5:52 PM
> >> Subject: Transfer Private to Public?
> >> To: Jason Kelly <jasonk at mit.edu>
> >>
> >> Hi Jason,
> >>
> >> I am currently working with students who are developing internal wiki
> >> pages that we will ultimately want to transfer to the public OWW site.
> >>  Before they get too far, I wanted to check with you to find out if
> >> there is some particular way that we should develop private wiki pages
> >> so that it's easy to transfer them.  For example:  If we make a whole
> >> namespace such as "ToGoPublic/", will it then be easy to transfer a
> >> whole group of pages from the private to the public?  Or are there
> >> other things we should do?
> >>
> >> Thanks for any advice here.  We are slowly getting things going on the
> >> private wiki and it is very helpful.  We're looking forward also to it
> >> helping us contribute to the public OWW soon.  Thank you again for
> >> setting up the private wiki for us, I love it.
> >>
> >> Sincerely,
> >>
> >> Steve
>
> --
> Austin Che           <austin at csail.mit.edu>          (617)253-5899
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