Downloadable Whole Wiki?

[Svetlana Belkin]

On 09/17/2013 11:33 AM, Little Girl wrote:
> Meld is a graphical program for comparing files or directories, and I
> love it. Here's the home page so you can get a quick look at how it
> works and what it's capable of:
> 
> http://meldmerge.org/
> 
> I don't use all of its features, but it seems to get more and more
> fancy as the years go by. (:
> 
> As far as using it for comparing the contents of a sandboxed page
> with a current wiki page, what I would do is:
> 
> 1) Copy the contents of my sandbox page into a text file named
> sandbox.txt on my computer.
> 2) Log on to the Ubuntu wiki.
> 3) Open the Ubuntu wiki page in the online editor. This will
> temporarily lock the page so that nobody else can edit it.
> 4) Copy the contents of the Ubuntu wiki page and paste them into a
> text file named wiki.txt on my computer.
> 5) Open Meld.
> 6) Open wiki.txt and sandbox.txt in Meld.
> 7) Visually compare the two files and make decisions on what to
> change, if anything. Meld lets you click the little arrows to
> transfer the contents of one file over to the other at the specified
> location. If you would rather not do that, Meld lets you manually
> edit the files as though they are in a text editor, so you can type
> or delete or select text and do with it what you like.
> 8) If changes needed to be made, once you have sandbox.txt just the
> way you like it, click the Save button at the top of Meld.
> 9) Close Meld.
> 10) Open sandbox.txt and copy the contents.
> 11) Paste them into the Ubuntu wiki page in place of the original
> contents.
> 12) Use the Preview button to make sure everything looks good at
> Ubuntu's end (Ubuntu may use different styles or tags than your
> personal wiki, so your page may look different there and may require
> some tweaking).
> 13) When you have it the way you like it, add a comment in the
> comment box and then save the changes.

Thank you for the step-by-step guide of how to do this.  Are you
planning to create a wiki page on this along with the other options for
having a sandbox for the Wiki pages?

Also, I'm thinking about blogging about this (mainly using the offline
wiki and Meld), mind if I use some of this?  I will give credit to you.

Svetlana Belkin