Ward Cunningham
Ward Cunningham
Perhaps I should explain why wiki worked. I wrote a program in a weekend and then spent two hours a day for the next five years curating the content it...
@btrower is kind to me. Thank you. This repo would benefit from a "how to contribute" page. Without it the repo is a bit of an attractive nuisance that traps...
Here is what would help me. There are about 1000 pages out of 36,000 pages that have character set problems making them difficult to encode as json. If someone with...
Here is one that didn't convert: SmalltalkBestPracticePatterns
Here is the best source I can find in the original key/value format. http://c2.com/wiki/todo/SmalltalkBestPracticePatterns This is a text file with alternating key and value separated by an ASCII GS (group...
Does a superscript '3' make sense in the context where it was found?
I believe a converter will require advanced heuristics as there are probably multiple character sets in a single file. There also needs to be some review of substitutions.
Here is a tgz of the sample files I have already posted. I'd be interested to know if you are seeing some distortion of the files when served as plain...
The original wiki was written in perl which supported a key-value datatype that could be initialized from an array of alternating keys and values. Wiki serialized these objects to a...
Looking back through this repo I found some of the programs I wrote to make my initial conversion. This program converted `$SEP` characters to an equally unlikely sequence, ``, that...