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			<title>The knowledge base moving to a new Wiki engine</title>
			<link>http://oscada.org/forum/posts///8972/</link>
			<pubDate>Mon, 18 Sep 2017 11:10:16 +0300</pubDate>
			<description>Wiki-pages in processing and their current state and progress for: moving to the new wiki, presenting (revision, translation to the generic languages, creation): Home: OK, OK About: OK, OK About/Related_projects: WAIT, WAIT Functions_and_demands: OK, OK Documents: OK, OK Documents/0.8.0: OK, OK Documents/*: WAIT, WAIT Documents/Terms: OK, OK Documents/FAQ: OK, OK Documents/Quick_start: OK, WAIT Documents/Program_manual: OK, OK Documents/DAQ: OK, WAIT Documents/User API (from the Program manual end): OK, OK Documents/Operator_manual: WAIT, WAIT Documents/API: OK, WAIT Documents/Program_donors: WAIT, WAIT Documents/Build_from_source: OK, OK Documents/Create_module: OK, WAIT Documents/Crash_report: OK, WAIT Works: OK, OK Works/Developers: WAIT, WAIT Works/Road_map: OK, OK Works/To_do: OK, OK Fund: OK, OK Works/Technical support: -, WAIT Works/Tests: WAIT, WAIT Works/Tests/*: WAIT, WAIT Works/Errors: WAIT, WAIT Using: OK, OK Libs: -, OK Libs/User_protocol_devices: OK, OK Sub-projects: OK, OK Sub-projects/Adaption_to_Android: OK, OK Sub-projects/Automation_Linux_distributive: LINK, WAIT Sub-projects/Embedding_and_PLC: OK, OK Sub-projects/*: LINK, WAIT Modules: OK, OK Modules/SQLite: OK, WAIT Modules/MySQL: OK, WAIT Modules/PostgreSQL: OK, WAIT Modules/FireBird: OK, WAIT Modules/DBF: OK, WAIT Modules/ODBC: -, WAIT Modules/LDAP: OK, WAIT Modules/Sockets: OK, WAIT Modules/Serial: OK, WAIT Modules/SSL: OK, WAIT Modules/SelfSystem: OK, WAIT Modules/UserProtocol: OK, WAIT Modules/HTTP: OK, WAIT Modules/JavaLikeCalc: OK, WAIT Modules/LogicLev: OK, WAIT Modules/BlockCalc: OK, WAIT Modules/DAQGate: OK, WAIT Modules/System: OK, WAIT Modules/ModBus: OK, WAIT Modules/DCON: OK, WAIT Modules/OPC_UA: OK, WAIT Modules/MMS: -, WAIT Modules/SNMP: OK, OK Modules/ICP_DAS: OK, WAIT Modules/Siemens: OK, WAIT Modules/DiamondBoards: OK, WAIT Modules/Comedi: OK, WAIT Modules/SoundCard: OK, OK Modules/BFN: OK, WAIT Modules/SMH2Gi: OK, WAIT Modules/AMRDevs: WAIT, WAIT Modules/Fastwel: WAIT, WAIT Modules/FT3: WAIT, WAIT Modules/(BCM2835-&gt;GPIO): OK, WAIT Modules/FSArch: OK, WAIT Modules/DBArch: OK, WAIT Modules/VCAEngine: OK, WAIT Modules/QTStarter: OK, OK Modules/QTCfg: OK, WAIT Modules/VCAEngine: OK, WAIT Modules/WebCfgD: OK, WAIT Modules/WebCfg: OK, WAIT Modules/WebVision: OK, WAIT Modules/WebUser: OK, WAIT Modules/FLibSYS: OK, WAIT Modules/SystemTests: OK, WAIT Modules/FLibMath: OK, WAIT Modules/FLibComplex1: OK, WAIT</description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[      Wiki-pages in processing and their current state and progress for: <strong>moving to the new wiki</strong>, <strong>presenting (revision, translation to the generic languages, creation)</strong>:<br />
Home: OK, OK<br />
About: OK, OK<br />
About/Related_projects: WAIT, WAIT<br />
Functions_and_demands: OK, OK<br />
Documents: OK, OK<br />
Documents/[Releases/]0.8.0: OK, OK<br />
Documents/[Releases/]*: WAIT, WAIT<br />
Documents/Terms: OK, OK<br />
Documents/FAQ: OK, OK<br />
Documents/Quick_start: OK, WAIT<br />
Documents/Program_manual: OK, OK<br />
Documents/DAQ: OK, WAIT<br />
Documents/User API (from the Program manual end): OK, OK<br />
Documents/Operator_manual: WAIT, WAIT<br />
Documents/API: OK, WAIT<br />
Documents/Program_donors: WAIT, WAIT<br />
Documents/Build_from_source: OK, OK<br />
Documents/Create_module: OK, WAIT<br />
Documents/Crash_report: OK, WAIT<br />
Works: OK, OK<br />
Works/Developers: WAIT, WAIT<br />
Works/Road_map: OK, OK<br />
Works/To_do: OK, OK<br />
[Works/]Fund: OK, OK<br />
Works/Technical support: -, WAIT<br />
Works/Tests: WAIT, WAIT<br />
Works/Tests/*: WAIT, WAIT<br />
Works/Errors: WAIT, WAIT<br />
Using: OK, OK<br />
Libs: -, OK<br />
Libs/User_protocol_devices: OK, OK<br />
Sub-projects: OK, OK<br />
Sub-projects/Adaption_to_Android: OK, OK<br />
Sub-projects/Automation_Linux_distributive: LINK, WAIT<br />
Sub-projects/Embedding_and_PLC: OK, OK<br />
Sub-projects/*: LINK, WAIT<br />
Modules: OK, OK<br />
Modules/SQLite: OK, WAIT<br />
Modules/MySQL: OK, WAIT<br />
Modules/PostgreSQL: OK, WAIT<br />
Modules/FireBird: OK, WAIT<br />
Modules/DBF: OK, WAIT<br />
Modules/ODBC: -, WAIT<br />
Modules/LDAP: OK, WAIT<br />
Modules/Sockets: OK, WAIT<br />
Modules/Serial: OK, WAIT<br />
Modules/SSL: OK, WAIT<br />
Modules/SelfSystem: OK, WAIT<br />
Modules/UserProtocol: OK, WAIT<br />
Modules/HTTP: OK, WAIT<br />
Modules/JavaLikeCalc: OK, WAIT<br />
Modules/LogicLev: OK, WAIT<br />
Modules/BlockCalc: OK, WAIT<br />
Modules/DAQGate: OK, WAIT<br />
Modules/System: OK, WAIT<br />
Modules/ModBus: OK, WAIT<br />
Modules/DCON: OK, WAIT<br />
Modules/OPC_UA: OK, WAIT<br />
Modules/MMS: -, WAIT<br />
Modules/SNMP: OK, OK<br />
Modules/ICP_DAS: OK, WAIT<br />
Modules/Siemens: OK, WAIT<br />
Modules/DiamondBoards: OK, WAIT<br />
Modules/Comedi: OK, WAIT<br />
Modules/SoundCard: OK, OK<br />
Modules/BFN: OK, WAIT<br />
Modules/SMH2Gi: OK, WAIT<br />
Modules/AMRDevs: WAIT, WAIT<br />
Modules/Fastwel: WAIT, WAIT<br />
Modules/FT3: WAIT, WAIT<br />
Modules/(BCM2835-&gt;GPIO): OK, WAIT<br />
Modules/FSArch: OK, WAIT<br />
Modules/DBArch: OK, WAIT<br />
Modules/VCAEngine: OK, WAIT<br />
Modules/QTStarter: OK, OK<br />
Modules/QTCfg: OK, WAIT<br />
Modules/VCAEngine: OK, WAIT<br />
Modules/WebCfgD: OK, WAIT<br />
Modules/WebCfg: OK, WAIT<br />
Modules/WebVision: OK, WAIT<br />
Modules/WebUser: OK, WAIT<br />
Modules/FLibSYS: OK, WAIT<br />
Modules/SystemTests: OK, WAIT<br />
Modules/FLibMath: OK, WAIT<br />
Modules/FLibComplex1: OK, WAIT      ]]></content:encoded>
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			<dc:creator>roman</dc:creator>
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			<title>The knowledge base moving to a new Wiki engine</title>
			<link>http://oscada.org/forum/posts///8916/</link>
			<pubDate>Tue, 01 Aug 2017 21:11:11 +0300</pubDate>
			<description>Base: Road map Funding: nope Begin: 21.12.2015 Priority: high Complexity: high and long term State: The same moving are mostly done. During using: migration, updating, appending and translation. Participants: Roman Savochenko (common work) Objective Actual knowledge base (on WackoWiki) moving to a new Wiki engine on MediaWiki but the previous Wiki mostly deprecated and has more limitations and inconveniences and it is a condition of OpenSCADA 0.9 LTS releasing.  Estimation : 10* compatibility or simplicity for the original Wiki content migration — a procedure &quot;wacko2media&quot; into OpenSCADA was created to simplify the migration for most syntax specific; 9* multilanguage from box; 8* UTF-8; 9* big page's content; 9* subpages including; 5* correct searching; 4* correct the syntax highlight for source texts; 4* provides template/skeleton pages for include as IFRAME into TYPO3, test on FAQ and also for OpenSCADA. 4* easy for print-ready documentation generation from Wiki, see to different tools: export through LaTEX, asciidoc, pandoc, DocBook; Summary:   21.12.2015 MediaWiki test deploy 20.07.2017 MediaWiki final configuration and preparing to migration 30.07.2017 A new clean structure of the Wiki creation 01.09.2017 Main pages migration, updating, appending and translation for: Home, About, Work, Work/Road map, Functions and demands, Using 01.08.2017 Cross-linking between old and new Wikis. Switching to the new Wiki on the main site. 01.08.2017 Try and work-out of using articles of the Wiki on the main site. 09.09.2017 WackoWiki Converter work-out for simplify the migration — the converter uses &quot;pandoc&quot; (1.12.4.2) which mostly broken for tables, html2wiki also has more lacks, then there was written a procedure &quot;wacko2media&quot; into OpenSCADA to do this migration directly from WackoSource. (*) Core documents migration, updating, appending and translation. 04.11.2017 A procedure creation for user accounts of the main-site (TYPO3) sync to the new Wiki. 20.10.2017 Switch OpenSCADA to the online documentation on the new Wiki. 03.11.2017 A script creation for prepare the offline documentation from the new Wiki — the script &quot;docOffLine&quot; into OpenSCADA directly created for the function. (-) Moving to different VPS with newer PHP and the environment in whole.  Problems with the Wiki-engine MediaWiki: 25.10.2017 Moving to a different VPS is mostly successful but the redirection from &quot;http://oscada.org/wiki&quot; to &quot;http://192.168.0.14/wiki&quot; has problems but the HTTP server Apache2 changes the filed &quot;Host: &quot; of the HTTP header to 192.168.0.14. 24.10.2017 Big articles (&gt; 65536) translation impossibility but the row &quot;job_params&quot; of the table &quot;job&quot; has type &quot;BLOB&quot; which limited in 2^16. The report here.</description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[      <i>Base:</i> Road map<br />
<i>Funding:</i> nope<br />
<i>Begin:</i> 21.12.2015<br />
<i>Priority:</i> high<br />
<i>Complexity:</i> high and long term<br />
<i>State:</i> The same moving are mostly done. <span style="color:blue">During using: migration, updating, appending and translation</span>.<br />
<i>Participants:</i> Roman Savochenko (common work)<br />
<i>Objective</i> Actual knowledge base (on WackoWiki) moving to a new Wiki engine on MediaWiki but the previous Wiki mostly deprecated and has more limitations and inconveniences and it is <a href="http://oscada.org/wiki/Works/Road_map" target="_blank" class="link_10">a condition of OpenSCADA 0.9 LTS releasing</a>.<br />
<br />
Estimation [Wacko,Media]:<br />
10*[10,5] compatibility or simplicity for the original Wiki content migration — a procedure &quot;wacko2media&quot; into OpenSCADA was created to simplify the migration for most syntax specific;<br />
9*[0,10] multilanguage from box;<br />
8*[0,10] UTF-8;<br />
9*[8,10] big page's content;<br />
9*[8,10] subpages including;<br />
5*[3,5] correct searching;<br />
4*[2,5] correct the syntax highlight for source texts;<br />
4*[2,10] provides template/skeleton pages for include as IFRAME into TYPO3, test on FAQ and also for OpenSCADA.<br />
4*[3,7] easy for print-ready documentation generation from Wiki, see to different tools: export through LaTEX, asciidoc, pandoc, DocBook;<br />
Summary: [287,513]<br />
<br />
<span style="color:green">21.12.2015</span> MediaWiki test deploy<br />
<span style="color:green">20.07.2017</span> MediaWiki final configuration and preparing to migration<br />
<span style="color:green">30.07.2017</span> A new clean structure of the Wiki creation<br />
<span style="color:green">01.09.2017</span> Main pages migration, updating, appending and translation for: <a href="http://oscada.org/wiki/Home" target="_blank" class="link_10">Home</a>, <a href="http://oscada.org/wiki/About" target="_blank" class="link_10">About</a>, <a href="http://oscada.org/wiki/Works" target="_blank" class="link_10">Work</a>, <a href="http://oscada.org/wiki/Works/Road_map" target="_blank" class="link_10">Work/Road map</a>, <a href="http://oscada.org/wiki/Functions_and_demands" target="_blank" class="link_10">Functions and demands</a>, Using<br />
<span style="color:green">01.08.2017</span> Cross-linking between old and new Wikis. Switching to the new Wiki on <a href="http://oscada.org" target="_blank" class="link_10">the main site</a>.<br />
<span style="color:green">01.08.2017</span> Try and work-out of <a href="http://oscada.org/en/main/about-the-project/" target="_blank" class="link_10">using articles of the Wiki</a> on the main site.<br />
<span style="color:green">09.09.2017</span> <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:WackoWiki_Conversion" target="_blank" class="link_10">WackoWiki Converter</a> work-out for simplify the migration — the converter uses &quot;pandoc&quot; (1.12.4.2) which mostly broken for tables, html2wiki also has more lacks, then there was written a procedure &quot;wacko2media&quot; into OpenSCADA to do this migration directly from WackoSource.<br />
<span style="color:blue">(*)</span> Core documents migration, updating, appending and translation.<br />
<span style="color:green">04.11.2017</span> A procedure creation for user accounts of the main-site (TYPO3) sync to the new Wiki.<br />
<span style="color:green">20.10.2017</span> Switch OpenSCADA to the online documentation on the new Wiki.<br />
<span style="color:green">03.11.2017</span> A script creation for prepare the offline documentation from the new Wiki — the script &quot;docOffLine&quot; into OpenSCADA directly created for the function.<br />
<span style="color:red">(-)</span> Moving to different VPS with newer PHP and the environment in whole.<br />
<br />
Problems with the Wiki-engine MediaWiki:<br />
<span style="color:red">25.10.2017</span> Moving to a different VPS is mostly successful but the redirection from &quot;http://oscada.org/wiki&quot; to &quot;http://192.168.0.14/wiki&quot; has problems but the HTTP server Apache2 changes the filed &quot;Host: &quot; of the HTTP header to 192.168.0.14.<br />
<span style="color:green">24.10.2017</span> Big articles (&gt; 65536) translation impossibility but the row &quot;job_params&quot; of the table &quot;job&quot; has type &quot;BLOB&quot; which limited in 2^16. The report <a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T101257" target="_blank" class="link_10">here</a>.      ]]></content:encoded>
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			<dc:creator>roman</dc:creator>
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			<title>Generalizing of helping mechanism</title>
			<link>http://oscada.org/forum/posts///2423/</link>
			<pubDate>Sat, 20 Nov 2010 19:35:51 +0200</pubDate>
			<description>Base: Initiative Component: The control interface OpenSCADA and all its visualizers. Funding: nope Begin: Priority: low State: Mostly done  (+) Help pages structure preparation according to attribute &quot;help&quot; from information part of the control interface. (+) Implementation for calls and context-help representing into the configurator UI.QTCfg. (+) Implementation for calls and context-help representing into visualizer UI.Vision. (+) Information elements of OpenSCADA control interface pages filling to context help content. (+) Implementation for calls and context-help representing into configurator UI.WebCfgD.</description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[      <i>Base:</i> Initiative<br />
<i>Component:</i> The control interface OpenSCADA and all its visualizers.<br />
<i>Funding:</i> nope<br />
<i>Begin:</i><br />
<i>Priority:</i> low<br />
<i>State:</i> Mostly done<br />
<br />
<span style="color:green">(+)</span> Help pages structure preparation according to attribute &quot;help&quot; from information part of the control interface.<br />
<span style="color:green">(+)</span> Implementation for calls and context-help representing into the configurator UI.QTCfg.<br />
<span style="color:green">(+)</span> Implementation for calls and context-help representing into visualizer UI.Vision.<br />
<span style="color:green">(+)</span> Information elements of OpenSCADA control interface pages filling to context help content.<br />
<span style="color:green">(+)</span> Implementation for calls and context-help representing into configurator UI.WebCfgD.      ]]></content:encoded>
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			<dc:creator>roman</dc:creator>
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