(This page is intended for the wiki on the new server).
Contents
There are several changes between the old MoinMoin version 1.35 and the new version 1.8. This page has notes on the most significant changes, and some outstanding problems in doing the update.
For the most part, the wiki pages are already updated to the new version, however, some pages were not updated properly. They can either be fixed manually, or if appropriate, a J script can be run to do a search and replace.
Release Notes
Release notes are in pages:
Note, there was no release 1.4.
Blanks in Names
In the old wiki, blanks in page names were converted to underscore, e.g. Essays/A Fine Line was created as Essays/A_Fine_Line.
The new wiki has no such conversion. Pages may have blanks in the name, and these are distinguished from pages with underscores.
Since most likely, underscores in the old page names should really be blanks, pages have been renamed to use blanks instead of underscores. Any pages that really should have underscores should be fixed manually. Also, this renaming may have broken page references that already use underscores.
Default Theme
This is changed from modern to modernized. Both are supported in the new version.
Macro Delimiters
These are changed from [[...]] to <<...>>, e.g. <<TableOfContents>>.
The MoinMoin update program did not recognize the inline latex macro [[latex(...)]], and a J script was run to replace these with <<latex(...)>>. There may be some macros not updated correctly.
Flags
Flags are no longer supported, see English Flag. In theory, they could be added back as smileys, but that has also changed, and I cannot yet figure out how to do it. For the nonce, {us} will display as such, not as the corresponding flag.
Page Links
These are changed from:
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight_queens_puzzle Wikipedia]
to:
[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight_queens_puzzle|Wikipedia]]
Code Blocks
The syntax for specifying a multiline code block seems to have changed so that the first line of the code block must be on the line after the three opening curly braces.
{{{This is first line of code
This syntax is no longer recognized as a code block.
}}}
{{{
This is the first line of code
This syntax is recognized as a code block.
}}}
Update Problems
On some pages (perhaps those with format indication of #format inline_latex), ordinary macros such as [[BR]] and page links were not updated. These are not yet fixed and perhaps should be done manually.
Questions
From the, I note:
autoadmin security policy makes it possible to give users admin rights on their homepage and sub pages of it.
Can we enable this, please? Done -- ChrisBurke 2008-12-04 07:50:00