Jeroens blog

Today I finished work on an initial version of a script I created to be able to update the Belgian Hackerspace wiki’s from my development environment. It took me quite a while to create this, as it’s my first bash script, and I had to figure out all the basic syntax stuff. Fixing up bad configuration and differences in set up also took up quite some time. Now I update the codebase of all wiki’s on the server weekly by running a single command, which is totally awesome Screenshot of the script running on my laptop:

As you can see, it allows updating a single wiki, or all of them, and the update can consist of everything, MediaWiki core, all extensions or just a single extension.

A week ago I finally created the project form, template and category on the 0×20 wiki, leaving only recurring event support on the immediate wishlist. When that has been taken care off, the semantic datastructures can be copied to a new wiki on hackerspaces.be, which will serve as a general Belgian wiki. Here the datastructures can be refined further and copied to somewhere before actual contents is put in (which allows other wiki’s to be created with it, avoiding a lot of work). This is probably a good chance to get the WikiSpaces project rolling again. After the datastructures have been copied, the wiki can be used to put information that is not specific to a single Belgian hackerspace, such as Pamela, the Mate supply, hacker events, ect. It’d also be the logical place to pull events from the other wiki’s into.

1. Hans says:

   September 1, 2010 at 1:52 am

   Nice one!