K-State Libraries: Digital Initiatives

Wiki Assignments

We're picking between MediaWiki and either Twiki or what CNS is using.  Harish will install MediaWiki, and ask Dave White what CNS is using.

Once they're installed, we'll need to add content and play with the design. Dale and Donna will create some sample documents, and Yongli and Dale will take a look at design.

Typepad to WordPress

Here are all the links, etc, from my attempt to export the bulletin blog from Typepad and into WordPress. 

1. I installed WOS and WordPress on my jump drive.
2. I read this post, linked from everywhere, about going from Typepad to WP, and decided that since we didn't use domain mapping, it wouldn't help us.
3. WordPress' Codex section says that the MoveableType instructions should work for Typepad, except for the export part.
4. I exported the posts from the bulletin blog to a file, saved in W:\DigLib\Typepad.  Typepad exports as htm, I saved as txt, because that's what the instructions expect.
5. Following the MT instructions, I got as far as importing the posts.  Author names were recognized as expected (step 4 of importing entries), step 5 seemed to go ok, but I got the "have fun" and some error messages about unexpected values simultaneously. 
6. Looking at the blog that was created revealed no imported posts or content of any kind.

Wiki Comparison

There's a wiki feature comparison tool called WikiMatrix that could help us make a wiki choice.  You can use the wizard to answer a few questions about requirements and get suggestions for wikis, or you can just choose the ones you'd like from a list and see a feature comparision chart. It might help us uncover a few we didn't know about to explore.  When I used the wizard to get suggestions, none of them were familiar.

HDDY meeting

I was looking for some catchy name for our meetings, and just decided to use our initials. I think HDDY looks cryptic and mysterious.

Here's what we agreed to work on:

Wikis

We decided to divide up the task of reviewing the various options. We'll report back at our next meeting on our impressions:

• Yongli - PmWiki, PBWiki
• Harish - MediaWiki, PHPWiki, Twiki (and/or whatever David is using)
• Dale - MoinMoinWiki
• Donna - will scour the earth for reviews and comparisons of these systems

Additionally, I agreed to get around to posting as a user in the BYU MediaWiki instance to which I can post to get an idea of how easy (or not) it is to use.

Blogs

Continuing an earlier discussion, Yongli will take a look at the TP file Donna created and see if she can get her WordPress installation to ingest it.