[e-lang] Convert Walnut to MediaWiki

[Mark S. Miller]

James Graves wrote:
> OK, unless someone has a strong objection, the "chapter split" and 
> "no-split" versions of Walnut are going to go away.  I won't delete 
> them, but just place redirects, to preserve any editing history that 
> might be useful.
> 
> So only the subsection split version will remain.  This is the most 
> wiki-friendly version anyway.  Easier to view, easier to edit.

Yes. I hadn't realized this was done by manual duplication. Even if
that's currently the only way to gather Walnut back together into a single
page, duplication isn't worth the maintenance nightmare it creates.



> We'll still have to manually add "next" and "previous" links to make 
> reading Walnut easy.  But that is only a little bit of work.
> 
> Let's assume that there is or will be a tool that takes as input a wiki 
> page, and then assembles it and all is subpages into one document.  If 
> the tool which can re-assemble Walnut from the subpages doesn't exist, 
> it will be written.  Either by us, or someone else associated with the 
> wikibooks project.  It should be a Simple Matter of Programming, anyway.

Yes. Let's accumulate the right structure -- a left to right tree of subpages 
-- that can be linearized again once we have the right software.


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Text by me above is hereby placed in the public domain

     Cheers,
     --MarkM