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[Bjorn Tillenius <bjorn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 12:33:34PM -0400, Karl Fogel wrote:
> Barry Warsaw <barry@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > As Francis points out, and perhaps as icky as it is, I think #2 is the
> > most practical solution.  So maybe my "encouragement" was too strong,
> > but I still think it should be possible and allowed to write moin and
> > rest in the public Launchpad wikis.
> 
> Some people who might edit our wiki will never need reST syntax for
> anything else -- they won't get to the point of ever writing doc tests,
> because maybe they only got as far as getting Launchpad up and running,
> or they only worked on configuration issues, or whatever.
> 
> I think your comfort with reST syntax is interfering with your ability
> to see the inherent editor-unfriendliness of having a two syntaxes in
> the same wiki :-).
> 
> I could maybe see using reST syntax for wiki pages that are direct
> copy-and-paste from a Python doctest.  I tried to get some stats on
> which pages are in reST right now, but ran into this:
> 
>   $ cat PageHits
>   https://dev.launchpad.net/FrontPage?action=edit
>   https://dev.launchpad.net/Getting?action=edit
>   https://dev.launchpad.net/OpenSourcing?action=edit
>   [...]
>   $ mkdir results
>   $ cd results
>   $ for page in `cat ../PageHits`
>     do wget -v --no-check-certificate --user kfogel --password "****" ${page}
>     done
>   --2009-09-16 12:29:43--  https://dev.launchpad.net/FrontPage?action=edit
>   Resolving dev.launchpad.net... 91.189.90.233
>   Connecting to dev.launchpad.net|91.189.90.233|:443... connected.
>   HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 403 Forbidden
>   2009-09-16 12:29:44 ERROR 403: Forbidden.
> 
>   [...]
>   $ 
> 
> All pages got that error.  Any idea how to pull the wiki source of pages
> automatically?

Use action=raw instead of acion=edit. If there's still something on the
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