Re: Wiki migration to Confluence: test conversion ready for review

> Sorry for the noise.

No worries.

> My intention was to convert links to the "user page" in moinmoin
> (which is typically something like JohanCorveleyn, or ThomasAkesson)
> into a link to the user profile in Confluence (which would be
> [~jcorvel] in confluence wiki syntax [1]). I didn't realize that this
> is not only a link to your user page, but also a "mention", which
> generates a notification.

Very surprising. I feel Confluence has confused the meaning of ~ and @, especially if ~ markup is rendered as @ in the HTML view.

> In the case of those two links (mentions) to your name, I only "fixed"
> that in the latest test. Because apparently in MoinMoin your username
> is "Thomas Åkesson", while that page contains literal ThomasAkesson
> (!= username). So my first iterations didn't pick that up, and I
> thought the intention was that this should have been a link to your
> user in MoinMoin too, so I converted that (more or less manually) into
> a [~xxx] link for Confluence. Perhaps that was not what you originally
> intended?

Well, I just intended to indicate what I wrote when things started to become an in-wiki-dicussion. That could be a link to my user or not, does not matter.

I think it diverges from the intention when Confluence renders / treats it as a “mention” since that generally has the opposite semantic meaning (uncommon to mention yourself).

> I can simply remove that manual mapping for you (when I do
> my next iteration / final migration), no problem.

Yes, that is probably closer to the original intention. As long as it does not impact Confluence “Page history”.

Thanks for your great work!
Received on 2018-03-05 16:16:57 CET