[teampractices] Converting etherpad notes to wiki markup

[Joel Aufrecht]

I take notes in the etherpad in wiki markup, and then paste it in to
mediawiki via edit source.



*--Joel Aufrecht*
Team Practices Group
Wikimedia Foundation

On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 9:35 AM, Subramanya Sastry <ssastry at wikimedia.org>
wrote:

> On 02/17/2016 11:09 AM, Max Binder wrote:
>
> Anyone have a process or tool for this besides manually editing the text
> in an etherpad?
>
> I've encountered this hiccup with a few teams now. Most folks I've talked
> to about it would like an easy way to transfer text from etherpads to wikis
> quickly, without having to worry about writing the etherpad text in wiki
> markup.
>
>
> I just filed https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T127207 .. once that is
> fixed (which shouldn't be difficult), you can take the HTML from etherpad
> and use Parsoid to serialize it to wikitext (via
> https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/?doc#!/Transforms/post_transform_html_to_wikitext_title_revision)
> which basically talks to Parsoid (or
> http://parsoid-lb.eqiad.wikimedia.org/_html/ .. but this entrypoint is
> going away soon).
>
> We'll try to fix T127207 soon which should make this usable. The output
> will still need some massaging. This is still not quite seamless .. but, a
> first step.
>
> Over the last 6 months, we have had different possibilities like this
> emerge. google doc html -> wikitext; markup (github or other flavours) ->
> wikitext; and now etherpad html -> wikitext. Perhaps we should provide some
> helper web api somewhere that uses parsoid under the hood to massage the
> html a bit and generate clean wikitext. Looks like a good opw / gsoc
> project. :)
>
> Subbu.
>
>
> I also stumbled across this extension:
> https://wiki.mozilla.org/Help:Import_From_Etherpad
>
>
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