Sprite Animation Wiki:Maintenance

This is the main page related to the meta subject of dealing with this wiki and its content. You are encouraged to write notes about the matter here as eagerly as you can, to give whoever happens to have a copy of this wiki a good starting point for further usage or upkeep.

= Text formatting =

This wiki is currently a MediaWiki instance, so the relevant documentation is:


 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Cheatsheet A larger cheatsheet can be found at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Wikitext.
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Formatting

This is of less interest if all you want to know is how to format text, but pointers to discussion and other related pages can be found at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikitext.

Converting text from/to different markup formats
One relatively straightforward option is to use Pandoc. If you are unable to install it for whatever reason, you can try one of these in-browser options:


 * https://pandoc.org/try/ This relies on a remote server (at the time of writing, the conversion requests are sent to ), and thus a functional internet connection. Besides the connectivity requirement, sending text to a remote server may not be what you want, in terms of privacy (though for this wiki, this shouldn't be a concern).
 * https://markup.rocks/ This includes a copy of Pandoc compiled to JavaScript, so it doesn't require an active internet connection for conversions (if you care about privacy, though, the page runs Google Analytics code). It may be too out-of-date to be useful, however (at the time of writing, it seems that the last update was somewhere in 2015). Source code is at https://github.com/osener/markup.rocks.
 * https://asterius.netlify.app/demo/pandoc/pandoc.html This includes a copy of Pandoc compiled to WebAssembly, so it doesn't require an active internet connection for conversions (see above for some implications of this). Keep in mind that it may take a while to download (almost 90MiB for the  file). Finding out how up-to-date this is seems difficult at first glance. The source code also doesn't appear to be present in the obvious spot: https://github.com/tweag/asterius/issues/851

Pandoc should be sufficient for, say, converting pages originally written in Markdown to MediaWiki's markup format, but correct and complete conversions (of the kind you would want in order to migrate away from MediaWiki, for example) may require different tools. Another good use for these in-browser tools is to preview changes without having to wait for the wiki server to process them.

= Content backups =

See:


 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Backing_up_a_wiki
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Exporting_all_the_files_of_a_wiki