Wikijs and github

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#1

Hi,

So I’ve always been intrigued by Caleb McDaniel’s ‘open notebook history’. I’ve also futzed around with taking notes using a Zettlekasten method, using a version of nvalt which searches & creates notes as you type. These are in markdown. Sooooo… I wanted to tie wiki.js to a private github repo that would hold the notes from my zettlekasten. Notes made in the wiki would be sync to the github & my local machine, and vice versa. Students helping me out on the project could make notes direct in the wiki.

So I installed wiki js. Now I’m trying to plumb Github into it, as per the documentation: https://docs.requarks.io/storage/git.

  1. the documentation says to stash the key where Wiki js can get it, and suggests /etc/wiki/github.pem. Where might i find this etc folder? I can web ssh in, and I’m seeing a couple of different /etc/ here and there, but no matter where I stash my key, wiki js isn’t finding it.

  2. the fact that i’ve made the github repo private: is this an issue too? I suppose I could just make it public and see what happens.

#2

Alright, isn’t that always the way? You post something, and then mirabile dictu, things start working. Anyway, for reference: using basic authentication (not ssh, as per docs), using keys as per docs, but not at ‘A. Path’ but rather ‘B. Contents’ (pasted in), username & password for github. And lo, it is pushing stuff to git, but not pulling it yet. I’ve got it set to bi-directional, so it should work? My notes that I want to pull in don’t have the same metadata as the notes that the wiki creates, so maybe there’s something in that.

#3

bloody hell, I’m an idiot. So it’s not enough to sync things. You have to force the import too. Upside: metadata wasn’t an issue. Anyway, all is well!

…update: well, only 10 of the files imported. Sigh.

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#4

But wow, it worked, and I would love to get a better sense of what you are doing here cause it sounds quite cool…

#5

I’d kill if wiki.js had a batch import for mediawiki. Would love trying to migrate fakearchaeology.wiki over to wiki.js and on to reclaim cloud.

#6

ah. the issue was spaces in filenames. Which were created by my zettlekasten.

Soooo… the general idea works, as long as

  • configure storage to use https sync rather than ssh with github
  • no spaces in filenames
  • having metadata laid out the way wiki.js likes it from the beginning would lead to a cleaner import, so maybe make that a template for my md files in zettlekasten
#7

This was the initial inspiration - http://wiki.wcaleb.rice.edu/ and for a while I had a pretty good setup that was kinda what I wanted using jekyll - http://smgprojects.github.io/ but that workflow was ultimately too cumbersome and like most things I start it just kinda… died away.

Anyway, this is all my trying to build a kind of evernote/devonthink system where I can also just drag the relevant notes into Scrivener and build articles/books around them, and be open with my research.