[WikiToLearn] Diff-aware bot for latex importation

[Davide Valsecchi]

I think that a two way synchronization for now it's too problematic: we
lost too much information going from latex to wiki.

In the short period we can handle the latex to wiki merge at least.
Obviously we prefer that the user uploads one time the content and then
changes it on wiki, but a lot of users would like probably to update
content from latex.

I think that we can do a diff with a bot when latex is parsed and then
produce a file for conflicts, maybe upload it online with a clear markup
and ask the user to check.

It's necessary to not overwrite online changes obviously..

I can work on that with a pywikibot...




2015-11-09 17:25 GMT+01:00 Santiago Saavedra <ssaavedra at gpul.org>:

> IMHO, the cleanest way (for LaTeX users at least) would be to have
> dual-way synchronization (that is, LaTeX -> Wiki *plus* Wiki ->
> LaTeX). Given that, we could go for the following set of actions:
>
> 1) Upload converted LaTeX
> 2a) Document may be changed on the site
> 2b) LaTeX source can be also changed
> 3) LaTeX source gets changes from wiki via diff against (Wiki -> LaTeX
> markup)
> 4) LaTeX source can be re-uploaded (changes are now merged locally) as
> a new version of the page
>
> Of course that would be awesome if uploading from LaTeX does not lose
> history, because otherwise we would miss most of the wiki thing.
>
> If we could not have that, we can at least do the diffing/merging on
> the wiki side: if we got a marker for versions coming from LaTeX
> conversion we could use that as "base" revisions in a 3-way merge.
>
> Patch theory is complicated :-)
>
> 2015-11-09 11:43 GMT+01:00 Riccardo Iaconelli <riccardo at kde.org>:
> > On Monday, November 09, 2015 02:59:35 AM Dario Mapelli wrote:
> >> Stupid idea from a newbie:
> >> 1) import a latex file and create a course (even with multiple pages)
> >> 2) edit some of them
> >> 3) import an updated version of the latex and create a new course
> >> 4) use something like diff to compare the version online and the new
> >> imported version of each page, and let the importer chose whether to
> keep
> >> or discard the changes. And maybe also notify the one who made the
> >> discarded changes, so that there is a "double check".
> >>
> >> Maybe this is a nonsense, but i think it is a starting point!
> >
> > The problem if, what is something changed on the website between each
> import?
> > And how do you backport those changes to your TeX?
> >
> > Automating these things is a mess :-)
> >
> > -Riccardo
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