[Pmwiki-users] Sync of local pmwiki with remote pmwiki possible?

[Steven Leite]

On a related topic... I was toying with the idea of editing PmWiki pages
via e-mail.  I do most of my work off-line, so it makes sense for me to
create/edit wiki pages locally, whether that be in an e-mail message, or
in a local copy of PmWiki.

I was thinking of scheme's that would allow me to first check to see if
the page I was trying to edit/write had been touched, eg. if the last
edit date was later than the edit date (version/revision number) of the
copy that I had been working on.

It makes sense .. each wiki page has a revision number.  So all you need
to do is make sure your (first) revision immediately follows the last
revision number of the live copy.

This idea (or variations on this idea) might be a good place to start if
somebody is interested in designing either one of:
a) edit/create wiki pages via email
b) edit/create/mirror wiki pages via a plug-in that periodically
connects to the Internet and "updates" all the pages that need updating.

If somebody is interested in doing something like this, or co-authoring
something like this, let me know.  It might be a fun project.  I'm still
putting the finishing touches on my ImageGallery script so I'm not quite
ready to start a new project yet, but maybe in another week or two.

First thing to do would be to write a detailed requirements
specification of all the features, abilities, functions, and interface
details.  That makes it a lot easier to code.

-S

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Britta" <morepork at myrealbox.com>
To: "Steven Leite" <steven_leite at kitimat.net>
Sent: Friday, May 28, 2004 9:09 PM
Subject: Re[2]: [Pmwiki-users] Sync of local pmwiki with remote pmwiki
possible?


> Steven Leite  wrote on  29/05/2004 8:28 a.m. :
>
> > A word of caution:  You could run in to problems if you have users
> > editing some pages, and you are also editing those same pages
locally.
> > Then when you go to upload your change, you'll overwrite your users'
> > changes.
>
> Yea, I pondered that issue <g>. I will have a small number of users,
so it
> is important I work out some foolproof routine.
> I can only think that the key will be regular, frequent backups of the
> server-based wiki (maybe a cron job). But it could all be a rather
fiddly
> two-way syncing process ...
> I was wondering if maybe I could use wget, once I have my Linux
desktop at
> home, to keep my local copy updated. A sort of 'poor person's cvs'. :P
>
> > There was some talk a while back about having a syncronized set of
> > wiki's, even with document merging in case of edit conflicts, but
that
> > never came to be.  There were a few suggestions, but you'd have to
be
> > very comfortable with programming, unix, etc etc to accomplish them.
>
> I am comfortable with Unix but IANAP - so it falls down there <g>.
> I wouldn't want a terribly complicated solution. If synchronizing
causes
> too much hassle, I'd flag it away.
>
> > That's my two bit's anyways ..
>
>  That was more than 2 bits I reckon ;)
>  Thanks very much for sharing that.
> -- 
>
> Cheers,
>
>                Saturday, 29 May 2004  3:51 p.m.
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