CentOS docs - Feb 2008 - I'd like to contribute to the wiki

Hi!

I've written an article on setting up cryptroot on CentOS:

  http://www.msquared.id.au/articles/cryptroot

I'd like to create links to it from a few places in the wiki.  For
example:

  * http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos

    Create a 'security' heading and link to either my article
    or a page on the wiki that links to my article

  * http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops

    Link to my article or a wiki page that links to my article
    (since laptops is probably the kind of use case that benefits
    most from the application of encrypted root)

My username is SirMsquared.

Regards, Msquared...

Msquared wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I've written an article on setting up cryptroot on CentOS:
> 
>   http://www.msquared.id.au/articles/cryptroot
> 
> I'd like to create links to it from a few places in the wiki.  For
> example:
> 
>   * http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos
> 
>     Create a 'security' heading and link to either my article
>     or a page on the wiki that links to my article
> 
>   * http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops
> 
>     Link to my article or a wiki page that links to my article
>     (since laptops is probably the kind of use case that benefits
>     most from the application of encrypted root)
> 
> My username is SirMsquared.
> 
Thanks for taking the time to consider contributing to the wiki, Ralph ( 
the wiki master ) should be in touch shortly with you.


-- 
Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/  : 2522219 at icq

Msquared wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I've written an article on setting up cryptroot on CentOS:
> 
>   http://www.msquared.id.au/articles/cryptroot
> 
> I'd like to create links to it from a few places in the wiki.  For
> example:
why not move the article to the wiki ? Isnt that what the whole point of 
collaborative editing is about ?

-- 
Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/  : 2522219 at icq

Msquared wrote:
> I'd like to create links to it from a few places in the wiki.  For
> example:
> 
>   * http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos
> 
>     Create a 'security' heading and link to either my article
>     or a page on the wiki that links to my article
> 
>   * http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops
I see that your article is rather longish (hadn't had the time to get
back to you earlier, sorry - and I didn't read the article completely).

Thank you for thinking about supporting our documentation for end users
- but I have a slight problem with just linking to your article. In my
opinion it would be better to have the article on the wiki directly.

I can understand if you don't have the time to reformat your article to
our wiki "typesetting", but I'm sure that we can work that out
somehow -
for example you put the stuff online, one of us then will go over it and
format it correctly.

How does that sound to you?

Cheers,

Ralph
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Ralph Angenendt wrote:
> I can understand if you don't have the time to reformat your article to
> our wiki "typesetting", but I'm sure that we can work that
out somehow -
> for example you put the stuff online, one of us then will go over it and
> format it correctly.

Hi, Ralph.

I found this tool very useful in my formatting from HTML to the CentOS
wiki format. It's HTML to Wiki Converter, which is a Perl module easily
installed on CentOS.

I wrote a post about it here on my site, and it's what I use now to
convert my pages there over to the wiki so I don't have to worry about
cross-posting. I change it once there, run this tool, then copy the
output to the CentOS wiki.

<http://www.maxsworld.org/index.php/content/perl-html-to-wiki-converter>

Alternatively, if people don't want to install anything you can run
it via the web.

<http://diberri.dyndns.org/wikipedia/html2wiki/>

Is this something that could be advertised to others to thwart having to
maintain multiple formats across sites, especially with long articles?

Regards,
Max

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On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 09:17:22PM +0900, Msquared wrote:
> I've written an article on setting up cryptroot on CentOS:
> 
>   http://www.msquared.id.au/articles/cryptroot
> 
> I'd like to create links to it from a few places in the wiki.
Given that my article will lose its Fedora relevance (since Fedora is
already going to implement encrypted root), I'm happy to copy the article
into the CentOS wiki, rather than link to the article.
>   * http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos
> 
>     Create a 'security' heading and link to either my article
>     or a page on the wiki that links to my article
> 
>   * http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops
> 
>     Link to my article or a wiki page that links to my article
>     (since laptops is probably the kind of use case that benefits
>     most from the application of encrypted root)
If someone gives me access to these pages, plus a page to actually hold
the article (eg: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/EncryptedRootFilesystem or
similar), I'll make the changes and add the article.
> My username is SirMsquared.
Regards, Msquared...