Wiki and Blogs Ashish Mahabal Ay/Bi 199b 29 Mar 2011 Which Wiki? • Many to choose from • pmwiki –Patrick R Michaud –http://www.pmwiki.org/ Wiki markup Raw Transformed PQ wiki pmwiki latest stable 2.2.25 local/config.php $DefaultPasswords['admin'] = crypt('SomeAdminPassHere'); $DefaultPasswords['edit'] = crypt('SomeEditPassHere'); http://www.astro.caltech.edu/quest/pmwiki/pmwiki.php A few wiki engines • MediaWiki (http://www.mediawiki.org) • PmWiki (http://www.pmwiki.org) • MoinMoin (http://moinmo.in) • Twiki (http://twiki.org) Creole: (http://www.wikicreole.org) The lightweight markup language for formatting wikitext. It is aimed at being a common markup language for wikis to enable simple transfer of content between different wiki engines. (See also http://wiki.wikicreole.org) Blogs • Blogspot (http://www.blogger.com) • Wordpress (http://wordpress.org) • TypePad (http://www.typepad.com/) • Movable Type (http://MovableType.com) • … Vlogs, audio blogs, diary, groups, blogsphere, … RSS feeds, subscribing, … Using Yahoo Pipes Using APIs " (Application Programming Interface) • Each blogspot blog has an associated number. My movies blog, for instance, has the number 31487588. It can be seen when you post a new item in your blog. You can obtain the xml for your blog using that number and some utility like wget or curl: • wget http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31487588/ posts/default This gives you a few of the last entries To get a large number of, or all, entries, use something like: wget http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31487588/posts/default?max- results=20000 For getting entries between two dates, use the following format: wget http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31487588/posts/default?published- min=2008-03-16T00:00:00&published-max=2009-03-24T23:59:59 To get those with specific labels e.g. "action", do: wget http://www.blogger.com/feeds/31487588/posts/default/-/action/ Modify/reformat the XML esci 101 from before • http://esci101.wordpress.com • http://esci101.wiki.zoho.com http://wiki.squeak.org/swiki/15 .