Downloadable Whole Wiki?

[Little Girl]

Hey there,

Svetlana Belkin wrote:

> On 09/17/2013 07:46 AM, Tom Davies wrote:
> > Hi :)
> > For some pages (not sure if in Ubuntu or elsewhere) i edited
> > pages using Gedit and then copy&pasted the markup/down back into
> > the online page.  I worry a bit that editing off-line or in a
> > sandbox area might lead to losing the history of a page so
> > copy&pasting back into the existing page seems to be a way around
> > that. 
 
> Little Girl said that the program "meld" can help to check for
> updated pages [1].  They (or someone else) might post what they
> said in the mailing list about meld and other ways to edit the wiki
> pages offline on the wiki.

Meld is a graphical program for comparing files or directories, and I
love it. Here's the home page so you can get a quick look at how it
works and what it's capable of:

http://meldmerge.org/

I don't use all of its features, but it seems to get more and more
fancy as the years go by. (:

As far as using it for comparing the contents of a sandboxed page
with a current wiki page, what I would do is:

1) Copy the contents of my sandbox page into a text file named
sandbox.txt on my computer.
2) Log on to the Ubuntu wiki.
3) Open the Ubuntu wiki page in the online editor. This will
temporarily lock the page so that nobody else can edit it.
4) Copy the contents of the Ubuntu wiki page and paste them into a
text file named wiki.txt on my computer.
5) Open Meld.
6) Open wiki.txt and sandbox.txt in Meld.
7) Visually compare the two files and make decisions on what to
change, if anything. Meld lets you click the little arrows to
transfer the contents of one file over to the other at the specified
location. If you would rather not do that, Meld lets you manually
edit the files as though they are in a text editor, so you can type
or delete or select text and do with it what you like.
8) If changes needed to be made, once you have sandbox.txt just the
way you like it, click the Save button at the top of Meld.
9) Close Meld.
10) Open sandbox.txt and copy the contents.
11) Paste them into the Ubuntu wiki page in place of the original
contents.
12) Use the Preview button to make sure everything looks good at
Ubuntu's end (Ubuntu may use different styles or tags than your
personal wiki, so your page may look different there and may require
some tweaking).
13) When you have it the way you like it, add a comment in the
comment box and then save the changes.

-- 
Little Girl

There is no spoon.