Under construction

Porting the old site to the wiki

Converting from HTML to mediawiki

Here are a couple of online resources which I tested copying and pasting the source from the Yambo Download page.

• Using Seapine gave this: Download-Seapine which is pretty good
• Using pandoc online gave this: Download-pandoc-online which runs out of space
• Using pandoc installed locally, gave this: Download-pandoc-install which is pretty good. Command used was

  pandoc  index.html -f html -t mediawiki -o index.mw

There are other more powerful html-media wiki convertors (see e.g this) but either they need php scripts run on the server or are difficult to set up, so I didn't have any success. In any case, we need to rewrite so much stuff there is little need for a 1-to-1 conversion.

Converting/porting images

Without the powerful converters mentioned above, there is no easy way to transfer all the image files across to the wiki. I managed at least to ease some of the work using the UploadWizard plugin.

When you have created the new page, you will now have links to missing image files. Either click on each one, or click the Upload File link on the left menu of any page.

• Click Back to the old form to upload one-at-a-time each image
• Otherwise continue with UploadWizeard to select and upload many files at once.
• Unfortunately it is not possible to automate everything in the wiki, so you need to click at least the date to accept the uploaded files.
• Don't change the file names, even if they seem a little different
• Afterwards, refresh the page/edit the page and you will see the images are now inserted.
• You will however have to resize them (see below).

• Markup

Formatting/fixing pages

Markup

Pages will not convert perfectly, so some formatting into MediaWiki Markup Language is necessary. It is essential to read this Markup summary. Take particular note of how to use

Different kinds and means

Of 
writing
preformatted

''text''

and code snippets

We should decide a standard way to represent symbols, vectors, etc W or W or [math]\displaystyle{ W }[/math] or ... ?

Inserting simple math formulae

After much trial and error I installed the SimpleMathJax plugin which works quite well, it's a cllent side rendering of LaTeX. Just insert your LaTeX within math blocks, e.g.

<math> \Phi_i({\bf r}) = \sum_{\bf G}^{N_G} c_i({\bf G}) e^{i{\bf G}\cdot{\bf r}} </math> 

gives

[math]\displaystyle{ \Phi_i({\bf r}) = \sum_{\bf G}^{N_G} c_i({\bf G}) e^{i{\bf G}\cdot{\bf r}} }[/math]

Images

Have a look at the guidelines. Probably if reusing old equation pngs one should use a form not rendered inline like:

 [[File:Example.jpg|x50px|center|alt alternate text]] 

e.g.:

The GW approximation is obtained as first term in the expansion of Hedin equations in the expansion in the screened interaction W

The screening interaction is defined as...

Front page set up

This is just a link to the New main page