Downloadable Whole Wiki?

[John Kim]

Wow, Im giving meld a try. It's like github offline code review, for anything involved text. 

Little Girl <littlergirl at gmail.com> wrote:
>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.
>
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