This page is for instructions and groupthink on moving the lojban.org site from a bunch of static (ish) html pages to the TikiWiki. If you're not helping with that effort, you probably don't want to be here.
Just for the record, here's why I'm doing this. This is an ordered list.
OK, so it's not much of a list.
I want to point out, though, that as a side effect of point 2, reducing user confusion is a Good Thing. I'm actually using the tables on this page to automatically create a giant redirection list, so the old site URLs should continue to work as normal.
Now that we have actually done the site move, the instructions below don't work so well. In particular, most of the links below will fail. To make them work again, go to www.lojban.org/static/; this will give you the old site. In addition, www.lojban.org/remaining/ has all the things that still need to be moved, most of which aren't HTML and most of which aren't on the list below, so you'll need to add them. In particular, http://www.lojban.org/remaining/file_list.txt has a complete list of all the stuff that's in there, and hence still needs to be moved.
Please ignore the stuff under "texts/translations" for the time being. Those are all automated, so there needs to be some code hacking there.
I strongly suggest that you have your browser set up to launch a Real Editor for text entry fields. I use a text-only browser (w3m) for this purpose. Mozilla-based browsers, such as Mozilla and Firefox, have the ability to interface with any editor using the mozex or ViewSourceWith extension (must be downloaded separately). The former is older, and may not work on Windows.
The "clean up the results" step deserves a tad more explanation. The following things should be done when cleaning up:
The pages below the don't end in ".en" are those tranlations that seemed to have a non-trivial amount done on them on the old site. The process for doing translations is just the same, except that after you're done entering the translated page, go to the button at the bottom that says "translation". Select the language of the page, hit save. Then go to the page this is a translation for, make sure a language is selected (select one and hit save if not). Then enter the translation you just created in "Set of translations", and click "go" or "add to set" (depending on if there are already other translations).
Gets turned into pretty arbitrary redirects. Please be careful.
Most (but perhaps not all) of these files should be turned into
attachments on a wiki page and linked here using the {file
...} format links. Hmm. Maybe not. Simpler to leave them where they are. Saves a lot of wierd probelms. Should probably put the RefGram stuff back too, in fact.